Canberra in a sentence

Chief Minister Andrew Barr will on Thursday announce Eku Energy has been selected deliver the next stage of the Big Canberra Battery project, which will be able to power one-third of Canberra for two hours in periods of peak demand.

General Manager of Canberra Toyota Fyshwick, Don Griffiths has been working for Toyota dealerships for 40 years, the past 12 years in Canberra.

In response to Mr Knott's comments about the ABC's Canberra bureau, Mr Dziedzic suggested there was a real 'generational divide' in the ABC Canberra newsroom.

Later rising to the podium to perform poems about birds, often with references to recognisable localities in Canberra, were other well-known Canberra poets Peter Searles, Kimberly K Williams and Jacqui Malins.

The Hoot is here, with a light touch on Canberra’s biggest stories (sometimes literally), from the ongoing threat to live music from Canberra’s booming property market to the man upholding the honour of middle-aged blokes everywhere.

Trevor Dickson presents Canberra (and another places) is a free exhibition at the First Edition bar at the Novotel Canberra on Northbourne Avenue.

According to The Canberra Times of February 13, 1983, "the concert, organised by the Canberra Festival Committee, was attended by a foot-tapping, jigging and bouncing crowd ranging in age from babes to old-age pensioners.

Canberra Liberals planning spokesman Peter Cain said the party wanted to strike the right balance between densifying city and town centres while preserving Canberra's bush capital characteristics.

In the past, the head of Canberra Airport Qantas over the high level of cancellations of its flights between Canberra and Sydney.

It’s equally not a religious holiday to most, in the same way Canberra Day isn’t about celebrating Canberra.

That honour goes to an old Wiradjuri man named Jimmy Clements and his fellow elder John Noble, who trekked to Canberra across the mountains in 1927 to attend, without an invitation, the opening of Canberra’s first parliament house.

The ACT's infrastructure spend would top $1 billion in a single financial year for the first time, Mr Barr said, thanks to the Canberra Hospital expansion and Canberra Institute of Technology Woden campus both operating at full tilt.

Previous board positions held by Mr Willson include Regional Development Australia ACT, Australian Foundation for Mental Health Research, Canberra Business Chamber, Canberra Hospital Foundation and Snowy Hydro Southcare.

She also lamented the fact that the last Canberra Day had featured only 50 per cent of artists from Canberra.

THE Canberra Liberals have promised free before and after-school care for primary school students, that it says will save some Canberra families up to $1600, in it’s latest pitch to voters ahead of election day.

THE secret is out — Canberra-raised opera star Lorina Gore will perform the lead role in Puccini’s “La Rondine” for the inaugural production of the newly-launched Canberra company, National Opera.

An exasperated Canberra Airport has resorted to offering cash incentives to airlines in a bid to reduce the high number of flight cancellations plaguing the Canberra-Sydney route.

Jim Scullin preferred to live at the Hotel Canberra (now the Hyatt Hotel); Ben Chifley lived in the Hotel Kurrajong ; and John Howard made Kirribilli House in Sydney his primary residence, using The Lodge when in Canberra on official business.

Ultimately, Griffin resigned from the Canberra design project in December 1920 when he discovered that several of these bureaucrats had been appointed to an agency that would oversee Canberra's construction.

A 17-year-old male passenger was airlifted to Canberra Hospital suffering critical leg injuries.