Latest building figures show 379 new homes were approved across the ACT in August. This is 73.1 per cent higher than the previous month and a 379.7 per cent increase on August 2024.
'I want less of the dreary stuff on the futility of war and more to celebrate our fabulous fascination with the thing,' says Grand Field Marshall of the Australian War Glamorial JIM 'BOMBER' BOMBSLEY.
A 60-minute synthesis of the cult musical, Newsies, which is based on a 1992 film and inspired by the real-life newsboy strike of 1899 in New York City, is about to take the stage in Canberra for the first time, reports HELEN MUSA.
An 18-year-old man has been charged with dangerous driving, failing to stop, driving while disqualified, breaching a good behaviour order and breaching bail after he was caught following a pursuit across multiple suburbs early on Tuesday.
"The national capital and territory planning 'authorities', as minor units of government bureaucracies, will roll over and accept whatever the ACT insists on," says letter writer RICHARD JOHNSON, of Kingston.
A pedestrian is dead after being hit by a tram at the intersection of Northbourne Avenue and Barton Highway in Downer at around 7.15 on Saturday night.
Subject to NCA approval, site establishment and early work on the construction of a new Civic theatre will start in October, with main construction underway early next year.