Canberra Weekender: What's on in Canberra August 19-21
Canberra Big Boys Toys Photo: Karleen Minney All weekendBIG BOYS TOYS A celebration of 4WDs, remote control trucks, pinball championships, beer, boats, and more. $7-$40 +bf. Exhibition Park, Mitchell. See bigboystoyscanberra.com.auGHOST STORIES A haunting psychological thriller that's been seen by more than 500,000 theatre goers around the world. It's billed as a combination of theatre and horror. Canberra Theatre Centre. $59 +bf. See canberratheatrecentre.com.au. FIRESIDE FESTIVAL T..>> view originalBecome a Canberra Times member today
Australian Public Service Commissioner John Lloyd has declined to respond to the Community and Public Sector Union attack. Photo: Jay Cronan TODAY'S TOP STORIES Five ACT schools have been targeted in a pornography ring where teenage boys and young men are secretly exchanging graphic sexual images of female students.Canberra College, Gungahlin College, Radford College, St Clare's College and St Mary McKillop College have been identified on the site.OLYMPICS TRAFFIC 9:25am: There's been ..>> view originalACT government launches LDA governance review after ...
The ACT government has launched an internal review of the Land Development Agency's governance framework, after a series of controversial Canberra deals including the agency's purchase of property at Glebe Park in Civic.LDA chief executive David Dawes awarded former Commonwealth Auditor-General Ian McPhee the $55,000 contract in mid-July, after talks with Chief Minister Andrew Barr, for a report in September. An artist's impression of the Casino Canberra rebuild, next to the Glebe Park blo..>> view originalCredible Canberra hulk launches weekend's Big Boys Toys Expo
The Incredible Hulk is a mere character of fiction but it was a real-life and credible hulk, Canberra hulk Andrew Fraser, who starred at Thursday's launch of the Big Boys Toys Expo.Groaning and hissing (like a steam locomotive) and harnessed to a mighty rope, he hauled a 13-tonne ACT Rural Fire Service Heavy Tanker along a stretch of road at EPIC. Canberra strongman Andrew Fraser pulls a fire truck under his own steam at the Canberra Big Boys Toys Expo launch. Photo: Karleen Minney "Imag..>> view originalSpring is coming to Canberra but there's a cold front to come first
Winter is going, but Canberrans shouldn't rush to get their spring hats and picnic blankets out just yet.They can expect at least one more cold front to sweep over the city before the warmer weather stays around – and they might want to soak up whatever sunshine they can this week as there's likely to be some rain about. The Bureau of Meteorology is forecasting up to 15 millimetres of rain to follow a mostly sunny Friday morning. Photo: Elesa Kurtz The Bureau of Meteorology is forecastin..>> view originalTwo B-52s fly over for Vietnam veterans Long Tan ceremony at ...
About 1500 Vietnam veterans from across Australia saw B-52 bombers in the air for the first time since the end of the war in Canberra on Thursday.The planes, both from the United States Air Force's 69th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron, flew an 18-hour, 11,000 km mission from Andersen Air Force Base on Guam to take part in the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Long Tan at the Australian War Memorial. Vietnam era USAF B-52 Bombers fly over Canberra to commemorate the 50th an..>> view originalMozart's The Marriage of Figaro by Opera Australia at the Canberra ...
Jeremy Kleeman as Figaro and Celeste Lazarenko as Susanna as the show goes on a three-month tour. Photo: Albert Comper The Marriage of Figaro. Music by W.A. Mozart. English libretto by Michael Gow after the Italian original by Lorenzo Da Ponte. Directed by Michael Gow. Conducted by Paul Fitzsimon. Opera Australia, Canberra Theatre Centre, August 25-27. canberratheatrecentre.com.au or 6275 2700.Poor Figaro! His boss wants to sleep with his fiancee, while if he doesn't pay back the money ..>> view originalCanberra Airport hopes tourists will flood in as first international ...
Singapore Airlines is set to offer direct flights between Canberra, Wellington and Singapore in a bid to facilitate new opportunities in both travel and trade. The construction of Canberra Airport's new lounge is now well underway, but the hope is that, upon completion, it will function less as a holding area, and more like a gateway to Asia that will supercharge business to the region. "It marks the internationalisation of our city, but it's also a very significant step forward for business,",..>> view original
Friday, August 26, 2016
Canberra Weekender: What's on in Canberra August 19-21 and other top stories.
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