Poor crowds could mean end for the Summernats

Negative media coverage will be partly to blame if Australia’s largest car festival doesn’t live on next year, its founder says.Summernats wound up on the weekend in Canberra with overall crowd numbers down 20 per cent.Just 80,000 people checked out the hotted-up cars and scantily-clad girls during the four days of the festival this year.Founder [...]

Batemans Bay

Located at the mouth of the Clyde River, Batemans Bay is a fishing town and holiday destination; only 152km from Canberra, so it attracts many visitors from the capital. The town is also a service centre for the surrounding hinterland, which produces timber, dairy products and vegetables.The beaches, rivers and lakes are prime attractions. Lunchtime [...]

Red Hill , Canberra

Red Hill is a great spot to view Canberra. Along with Mount Ainslie and Black Mountain, it rates a mention in Margaret Wade’s Canberra’s Secrets as a top place to get a sense of the city. One writer, Kevin Cole, is quoted as saying: “like the seven hills of Rome, we’ve got the three hills [...]

Canberra Attractions

Canberra is widely acclaimed as the best landscaped city in the world. Its geometrically circular street pattern, set around key urban planning elements, is complemented by millions of trees and shrubs, which give the city its ambience.Canberra is planned around Lake Burley Griffin and a ‘parliamentary triangle’ consisting of Parliament House, the High Court and [...]