A breakaway tartan trio from the Canberra City Pipes and Drums has gone a wee bit “mad” and instead of pomp and ceremony, it’s AC and DC – bagpipes on steroids.
Almost 500 Tuggeranong residents are without a parkrun – for the first time in 10 years due to redevelopment – and the tight-knit running community is feeling the loss.
When Higgins resident Chris Carson was eight years old and sitting on a bus in the Victorian town of Benalla, he witnessed a meteorite plummet to Earth. He never imagined one day he’d hold that seven-billion-year-old space rock as a project geologist at Geoscience Australia.
The ACT Government, on our behalf, has been collecting art for our public spaces for 60 years and it comes with an annual repair and maintenance budget of $165,000.
Few Canberrans would know we have an extinction vault – a secure collection of about 8 million precious seeds that are an insurance against native plant extinction.
A time capsule has just been sealed at the Australian War Memorial that is expected to be opened 100 years from the completion of the development works - let’s hope it won’t be lost or forgotten like some other Canberra time capsules.
Working at Parliament House since it opened in 1988, Maria Ljubic takes great pride in overseeing the cleaning of its 4,500 rooms and 22 kilometres of corridors.
We’ve recently just enjoyed a balmy October long weekend which, astonishingly, was once the date of the annual Perisher Cup – one of Australia’s oldest ski competitions (since 1953).
As the referendum looms and Canberrans re-acquaint themselves with the Australian Constitution, it seems the closest encounter we have with it is driving down Constitution Avenue or watching 'The Castle'.
As Daylight Saving ticks over this Sunday at 2am, spare a minute to consider the flawless synchronisation of 2,700 analogue clocks automatically jumping to 3am at Parliament House.
