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100 results for Canberra

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New direction

8 December 2016

It hasn’t got the beguiling reputation of its coastal cousins but Australia’s capital has a lot more going for it then you might think.

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Safe haven

26 November 2020

The modernist Swiss embassy in Canberra is a paean to the possibilities that concrete offered its gifted architects.

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A recent overhaul of Canberra Airport saw it emerge as one of Australia’s best-designed and most functional hubs. This week the effort paid off in the form of a Singapore Airlines tie-up. The deal will see flights linking…

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Canberra calls

1 December 2016

Once famous for its lack of vibrancy, Australia’s landlocked capital Canberra is making headway as the land down under’s next international hub thanks to global flight connections. Qatar Airways has become the latest int…

Radio

The Menu - Food Neighbourhoods 76: Canberra, Braddon

20 March 2018

A visit to the inner-city suburb of Braddon, which has been at the centre of a transformation that’s made the city a food-and-drink destination.

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Diplomacy

23 March 2017

The boom in embassy building in Canberra and the return of diplomatic relations in Libya. Plus: Nato’s man in Moscow bows out of his “kamikaze” job.

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G’day, world

18 February 2016

This year our nation special puts the spotlight on that sprawling land down under – and in the process we’ve batted away the kangaroos and shooed off the crocs to get to the real red centre of what Australia represents.

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Oceania

17 June 2011

Australia heads into a housing bubble, while in Christchurch the nightlife heads to the suburbs. Plus, we speak to the man in charge of rebuilding post-earthquake New Zealand.

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Design

15 September 2022

Canberra’s new public installation and Nolan Giles on the joy of low-impact second homes.

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Oceania

17 January 2013

Canberra celebrates its centenary, New Zealand gets building and Tonga gets broadcasting (in Chinese).

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The Menu - Australia special

19 February 2016

We discover how an industrial area has turned into a restaurant oasis in Canberra, meet an Australian entrepreneur determined to improve coffee in Brazil and visit one of Adelaide’s most unique venues.

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Q&A – Emiko Davies

14 December 2017

Canberra-born cookbook author Emiko Davies tells us of her love for Tuscan food: we catch up during her stay at the historic estate of Rosewood Castiglion del Bosco.

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Show and tell

21 November 2015

This weekend Australia’s capital kicks off nine days of Design Canberra, a festival that brings together the city’s “creative communities, from artists and designers to manufacturing and retail businesses”, says Avi Ames…

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The Globalist - Thursday 27 September

27 September 2018

We head to Canberra where a public inquiry has opened to examine possible government influence after a journalist at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation was fired. Plus: we sift through Italy’s budget details and hope…

Radio

The Briefing, episode 629

8 April 2014

Why the UN is saying it will have to reduce the size of the aid parcels for those in Syria, we ask whether a trade deal between Japan and Australia threatens Canberra’s agreements with Beijing, and assess the first visit…

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Capital punishment

8 January 2010

Do too many diplomats and NGOs spoil a city? Brussels, Ottawa, Canberra and even DC have a lot to answer for in the dull stakes, but what’s a capital city to do? Become both an economic and administrative hub? Or simply…