Canberra is the first U.S. Navy warship to be commissioned in an allied country. It is the second U.S. Navy ship to bear the namesake of Canberra. “I can think of no better way to signify our enduring partnership with Australia than celebrating the newest U.S. Navy warship named for Australia’s capital city, and commissioning … [Read more…]
Artistic director Ana de la Vega. Photo: Boaz Arad “BRING in a honeypot, and the bees will come,” virtuoso flautist Ana de la Vega says of the new $20 million Snow Concert Hall, which opens its doors for the first time on Saturday at Canberra Grammar School. She’s probably right for musicians, organisations and festival … [Read more…]
Another international swimming competition is headed Down Under, as the next edition of the Junior Pan Pacific Championships is headed to the Australian capital of Canberra in August 2024. The 2024 Junior Pan Pacs will be staged at the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) on August 21-24, 2024, Swimming Australia announced Thursday, with the competition … [Read more…]
Claret ash… declined due to crown dieback and environmental conditions. Photo: Jackie Warburton Gardening writer JACKIE WARBURTON wonders about what’s gone wrong for the disappearing claret ash trees in Canberra. THE claret ash tree has been a popular tree to plant in suburban Canberra gardens over recent decades. Jackie Warburton. More formally known as Fraxinus … [Read more…]
A happy meal has been a long-standing tradition to brighten a child’s day, but what happens when the last one is sold, and the last McDonald’s has closed down? Set in a dark world and exploring the tough decisions teenagers are going to face, Happy Meals, Happy Kids hits the stage at Daramalan College for … [Read more…]
Nothing surprises me these days, so the latest bit of bad government from our Labor-Greens ACT government was just the latest in a saga of arrogant, disdainful treatment of an ACT community that keeps re-electing them regardless of how bad some of the government’s actions are. However, the sheer apparent stupidity of the move was breathtaking. My … [Read more…]
“In my long career, I’ve never seen progress as fast as is happening now,” medical oncologist Professor Paul Craft AM said. “Treatments [for cancer] are changing, improving, every year, every six months. It’s hard to keep up sometimes!” That progress is due to clinical trials, which the Federal Government defines as “research investigations in which … [Read more…]
Closed while the gallery builds a “better experience”. Photo: Paul Costigan TO more or less quote an art school lecturer, it is great to live in Canberra and to visit the National Gallery to see old friends. Those “old friends” are the works of art on the walls of the NGA that you like to … [Read more…]
Walter Sofronoff KC… charing the board of inquiry. “Silence – that’s the response by those ranks of people whose careers are carried on words, spoken and written. They were, one and all, silent. That was a profound silence and we need to ask what it means,” writes “CityNews” legal commentator and former barrister HUGH SELBY. … [Read more…]
The Brumbies have sent an understrength squad to Perth for their clash with the Western Force. (Darren England/AAP PHOTOS) By Justin Chadwick in Perth WESTERN Force hooker Folau Fainga’a deserves a gold medal for trash talk after launching a series of humorous taunts at his former Brumbies teammates leading into their Super Rugby Pacific clash … [Read more…]