About this time of year, golden syrup runs out of stock on supermarket shelves as people rush to bake Anzac biscuits — but here’s something to give you pause for thought.
There are more than 1.5 million war items in the Australian War Memorial’s collection, but high above on the top of Mount Ainslie, there has been a solitary intangible tribute to peace.
Everything old is new again and as vinyl records enjoy a resurgence, we’re perusing Canberra’s largest record collection (more than 100,000), just in time for Record Store Day on Saturday 12 April.
Visitors to the (minimum to maximum security) Alexander Maconochie Centre don’t usually bring guitars, but Nick Lee-Murphy passes through the metal detector and X-ray checkpoint with nothing but an acoustic Martin guitar and a songbook.
For once, the “loud bangs” reported on Facebook’s Canberra Noticeboard were actually newsworthy, and at about 2:46am on Saturday morning, a giant flash was recorded on numerous outdoor cameras and dashcams as a meteor streaked across Canberra’s skies.
Not wanting to blow my own Viking horn, but I think I’ve discovered the most remote Raiders fan-base — in a small provincial town in Papua New Guinea (PNG).
Rugby League is massive...
An incredibly candid rock star called Tim Rogers from You Am I opened up to me about his insecurities and quite honestly, his vulnerability was comforting.
The Canberra Comedy Festival may have wrapped up but don’t be glum Ken Behrens, UK comedian Ben Elton’s in town and let’s face it, the Brits do comedy best (Monty Python et al).
Canberra’s amateur astronomers are far from backyard novices, with some local sky-gazers giving advice to NASA, conferencing with the Paris Observatory and discovering new comets.
