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Minima restaurant celebrates the Chinese diaspora in Southeast Asian cuisine.
14.5/20

Minima

Intimate diner embracing cross-cultural flavours.

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The dining room at Lamshed’s in Yarralumla.
14.5/20

Lamshed’s Food + Wine

A touch of agrarian magic in a sleepy shopping strip.

Staff at the Soviet embassy in Canberra are recalled after Vladimir Petrov’s defection to Australia in 1954.

Bugged, bombed and burned: The Russian embassy’s turbulent times

The Russian embassy in Canberra has never offered comfort. But the Soviets refused to move in the 1970s. Now the Russians have to stay put.

  • Tony Wright

A podcast on Gough Whitlam’s dismissal re-interprets our country’s greatest political crisis

The ABC podcast The Eleventh reveals a great deal more was happening behind the draped curtains of Yarralumla than met the Australian eye.

  • Joey Watson
The Yarralumla post office will close at the end of March and the IGA will offer postal services, Australia Post has confirmed.

Yarralumla supermarket will take on post office after closure

High rent may have forced the Yarralumla post office to close, but the IGA will offer postal services.

  • Jasper Lindell
The abandoned development on the corner of Bentham Street and Hutchins Street in Yarralumla.

Down on the corner: The seven-year saga over a vacant block of land

The block's former owner blamed a "pathetic bunch of do-gooders" for the impasse over the Yarralumla land, but residents want the government to take it back.

  • Jasper Lindell
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Chief Planner NCA chief planner, Andrew Smith.

Threat to Russian, Iranian embassies: use empty land or lose the lease

The National Capital Authority's chief planner has raised the possibility of taking the lease off embassies that hold vacant land.

  • Steve Evans
Teens smashed 138 windows in vandalism spree that cost $100k: police

Teens smashed 138 windows in vandalism spree that cost $100k: police

Police allege the two 17-year-old boys caused more than $100,000 worth of damage during the vandalism spree in Canberra's inner south.

Regular open days at Government House enable the general public to explore its expansive grounds.

Haunting Yarralumla: The ghost and the Governor-General

Most Canberrans who flock to the Government House annual open day do so completely unaware of its mysterious past, one that is steeped in myth and legend.

  • Tim the Yowie Man
New road ignores real problems with Yarralumla traffic, say residents

New road ignores real problems with Yarralumla traffic, say residents

Yarralumla residents are concerned about plans to build a new roundabout and road divert attention from more urgent issues.

  • Han Nguyen

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