The irony, CO2 emsisions event helping create an unlivable biosphere being held in high heat helped on by emissions from said event.

Big oof for north side parliamentary triangle workers. Shame the tram is not already running there.

Guess Canberra might have bad traffic for the first time. Glad I'm on the bike, and I don't even have to cross that bridge.

Pools should be public and easily accessible. Learning to swim is important, and it's a great low impact exercise option. But I'm not sure if the government should be footing the bill for deep water pools used by divers and niche underwater sports. A 2 m deep pool is fine for 99% of users, a 3 m + pool seems like a use case that would be catered for by a commercial outfit.

Finally tried the coffee yesterday, yeah, its nice the roast is a bit darker than i'd notmally go for, but i like it. Its hits smoother than some of the other dark roasts i've tried.

That flavour is alright, i wouldn't go out of my way to try it again, but i'm not a huge one for the dark chocos

I drink redbrick coffee all the time. It’s pretty good. Their decaf is one of the best I’ve had.

I've had some Jasper Myrtle chocolate before (albeit not that specific favour) and thought it nice, I think the chocolate's a pretty safe bet. Haven't tried the Redbrick coffee though but I have seen people say it's good.

Probably hard to justify legally, I expect the best we can hope for is just giving back the $3m they paid without counting in the massive land price rises since then. It'd be amusing to turn around and make it the new Ukrainian embassy site though...

What I don't get is that the timeline mentioned above implies that THEY GRANTED A LEASE TO RUSSIA BEFORE THEY HAD EVEN SPOKEN TO ASIO ABOUT IT OR ASKED FOR ADVICE.

Will the compensation take form of a donation to the "Russian Reparations Fund for the Illegal War of Agression in Ukraine"? The Russian government will get a comemorative bronze plaque apologizing for their evil?

Strange that the ACT doesn't run under the same umbrella as NSW, I guess it just wanted to be different again. At least Victoria has a significant amount of its own power generation so being separate makes a little more sense - while the ACT does have a reasonable amount of solar power (solar farms as well as rooftop) it's still dependent on the NSW grid for supply.

My friend did this in Victoria for Muscular Dystrophy and it was absolutely the right choice.

Well I'll be cooked, Il worked for those guys, back around the coppers crossing?? Days

It does seem to me like having a young kid just means you should have thought even more about whether the dodgy stuff was worth it before you did it. I'll be charitable and go with maybe the judge was thinking that it might not have sunk in yet after only two weeks.

"He's now a father… it's no longer fun and games."

And yet it seems that being a father got him out of some trouble, which is the opposite.

Doing it where people can see you rather than far away like you can get with these drones seems a pretty silly idea, but I guess you can't expect too much from those who are prepared to try this.

Choosing a DJI drone for clandestine stuff is also one of the worse choices if anyone has drone tracking technology over there...

Ugh! Time for Canberrans to take up cycling

It does get pretty busy, particularly during peak times. It's the primary north-south route across the lake for the inner north and inner south suburbs and you've got a lot of workplaces at either end (both Civic to the north and the parliamentary triangle to the south) so it can attract a fair amount of traffic.

There are obviously other routes to take but closing half this bridge will cause a bit of traffic chaos both from people still trying to go this way and jamming it up and from people taking the alternate routes and jamming them up. The eastbound Parkes Way route to Civic for example is already crawling in the mornings and will receive a good amount of the flow on traffic from this so will probably be a logjam.

So i've been looking at a map, this is that big drive that leads down to the Australian Parliament, does that road get that busy? Seems more ceremonial. You know used once a century when the Monarchs in town.

I'm surprised she didn't jump earlier - once their issues were in the news (and with political pressure from Pocock etc) leaving that position was likely going to come sooner or later whether it was her stepping down or being kicked out.

Yeah. I can't see the whole cybernetics thing lasting much longer.

Good riddance. She shouldn't have been allowed to step down nicely though, kick her out and never let her be hired at another uni.

"It sounds as though the treasurer is prepared to wear having to pay slightly higher interest rates on the territory's debt in order to be able to press on with the infrastructure spending which his government has decided is more important."

I can accept this pretty easily. Not to say they couldn't more efficiently run the books, but scrapping I infrastructure projects to pay slightly less interest on debit would rarely work out.

The rumour mill is going strong, it seems ANUs VC might not last much longer.

Seems like an appropriate spot for even more scavengers to congregate.