Last Top Stories: Canberra Weekender: What's on in Canberra August 21-23

Canberra Weekender: What's on in Canberra August 21-23

ANTIQUE AND COLLECTABLES FAIR Twenty-two antique dealers from around Australia will be on display at the Rotary Club of Canberra City's spring antiques fair.Funds raised go to Snowy Hydro SouthCare. Entry Adult $7/Concession $5/under 14 free. >> view original

Canberra Night Markets more than double in size for September

Night Market Canberra is on Friday September 11 from 4pm-9pm, free entry. You can find out more at nightmarketcanberra.com. And it will be a big weekend of markets, with Hustle and Scout and The Forage on the next day, September 12 from 2-7pm at its ... >> view original

Rare glimpse inside the Yarralumla Seed Bank in Canberra dubbed the 'lolly shop'

It is nicknamed the lolly shop, but the Yarralumla Seed Bank in Canberra's south plays a vital role in the city's heritage. Inside an unassuming building, the history of thousands of trees planted across the national capital have been recorded in a ... >> view original

Scratchies could be sold at Woolworths petrol stations in Canberra from next month

Scratchies could be sold at Canberra service stations from as early as next month under a new deal between NSW Lotteries and Woolworths petrol outlets. NSW Lotteries announced that it has entered into a deal with the service stations and the ACT could ... >> view original

Uberwhelming support for Canberra cab shake-up

Canberra taxi drivers seem remarkably sanguine – cheerful even – at the looming arrival in the nation's capital of ride-sharing service UberX. "Bring it on," one driver, who didn't want to be named for fear of repercussion, said this week. He's looking ... >> view original

Canberra school embraces renewables to reduce carbon footprint and cut costs

Equipped with solar panels, a worm farm and a kitchen garden, Canberra's Neville Bonner Primary School is looking to the earth and sky to reduce its carbon footprint and save money. It is one of only a handful of schools in the ACT to have a 100 ... >> view original

Huge NASA dish lifted into place outside Canberra after delays

A massive antenna dish has been installed at Canberra's Deep Space Communication Complex, after the big move was postponed yesterday. A giant crane was used to move the saucer-shaped dish — which stretches 34 metres and weighs 125 tonnes ... >> view original

Canberra firefighters help US fire crews battle bushfires

Four Canberra firefighters will help United States crews battle bushfires devastating parts of the country. The group will travel to the US this weekend, where they will spend up to a month helping their American counterparts fight fires California ... >> view original

'Incubators for violence' in Canberra: Royal Commission called for to ...

A parliamentary committee has been warned about violence against people with disabilities "just outside these doors" in Canberra as one group has called for a Royal Commission. Christina Ryan from the Canberra based Advocacy for Inclusion said centres ... >> view original

Gang-gang. Freudian dreams of erotic Canberra skyscrapers

In humdrum suburbs one only ever sees dogs being taken for walks on leashes but in individualistic Ainslie they do things differently. Some of us, doomed to live elsewhere, in the tedious Canberra, sense we may soon need counselling for our Ainslie-envy. >> view original