By GRACE KEYWORTH
RECENT rains showed environmental measures are working at the construction on the Cotter Dam Enlargement, according to a surveyor on the site.
The surveyor, who did not want to be named, said the rain had not caused any delay. The site preparation is complete and the first blasting of rock is scheduled to start [...]
By NIKKI BRICKNELL
Students at the University of Canberra are being fined for parking illegally, despite the new overflow parking spaces provided.
“Some people just don’t know we’re here,” the SNP Security Officer assigned to the south end of the campus, Ahmed Sarfraz, said. “They can see it from a distance but don’t know how to [...]
By COURTNEY KEOGH
Imagine being dragged by your legs into a small room and your throat being cut over a drain while someone looks down on you and waits for you to bleed to death. Or imagine your eyes being gouged out and all your tendons slashed so you slump on the ground unable to move. Disturbingly, this is the way many Australian sheep, cattle and goats die to Australia’s live stock trade.
Canberra New Restaurant of the Year has been awarded to Du Jour in New Acton, coinciding with two-year high consumer confidence as JEFF VON DREHNEN reports. VIDEO
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THOUSANDS of tonnes of asbestos contaminated waste from the Parkes ASIO site will now not be dumped over the border. Murrumbateman residents are relieved 35,000 tonnes of building rubble won’t be dumped at their landfill, after talks between the Yass Council and the ASIO site broke down. SAM HUNT reports. VIDEO
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