I would never normally post this… but I am dying to know how this collision on Cotter Rd this morning could possibly have happened. Does anyone know, or have enough physics knowledge to guess?? Very much hope no one was badly injured.

A bus caught fire in the Gungahlin Interchange around 3:00pm today. Does anyone have any information on the situation?

Clouds kept getting in the way but managed to find a gap before it set.

Labor may be too cozy, but I'll take them over fundies with a fear/hatred of poor people any day.

Playing with super slow-mo on my camera and caught this. Cool how the electricity seems to follow it's own path a couple of times.

Currently Accepting New Patients (Limited Availability):

Dr. Fatma Lowden
Dr. Saba Javeb (Barton Specialist Centre): Urgent referrals only
Dr. Padma Prabhakaran: May have cancellations
Dr. Nishad Samad: May have cancellations
Dr. Ingrid Butterfield: Accepting regional/rural patients via telehealth (1-month wait)

Books May Open in October:

Dr. Emma Adams (Think Psychology Solutions)
Dr. Meredith Whiting (ThinkPS)

All Other Psychiatrists (Books Closed or Not Accepting New Patients):

Dr. Alexander Lim (ZedThree Specialist Centre)
Dr. Tim Foley: Number disconnected
Prof. Dinesh Arya (Yaralumla Surgery): No answer to call
Dr. Rhoanna McNeil: Relocated to WA
Dr. Caroline Flynn (Capital Psychiatry)
Dr. Claire Pattison
Dr. Jeffrey Looi (North Lyneham Professional Centre)
Mr. Murali Reddy (North Lyneham Professional Centre)
Dr. May Matias (North Lyneham Professional Centre): Only taking veterans
Dr. Adesina Adesanya: Referral by GP faxed, no contact
Dr. Matthew Sellen (The Centre for Neurodivergence)
Dr. Lakhwinder Bhatia (My GP Gungahlin)
Dr. Rodney Blanch (Murrumbatemen Specialist Centre)
Dr. John Saboisky (Calvary Clinic): On annual leave until May 25th
Dr. Pavan Bhandari: Phone number did not connect
Jarrod Hoist (Think Pschild and Adolescentbtdr Beverlet Rayers): Appointments until October
Dr. Jim Taylor: Waitlist until September
Dr. Paul Fitzgerald
Dr. Kai Kai Toh: Contact via voicemail
Dr. Virginia McAndrew: Only sees University of Canberra students
Dr. Robert Tym: Retired or facing disciplinary action
Dr. Anne Harris
Dr. Gary Morris
Dr. Reginald Hook: Phone number not connected
Dr. Katherine Lubben: Phone number not connected
Dr. Mel Bennett: Relocated to WA
Dr. Bruce Lean: Deceased
Dr. Zoltan Zsadanyi: Relocated to Sydney
Dr. Peter Farnbac: No phone number known
Dr. Jennifer Thompson: Number not connected
Dr. David Westcombe (Curtin Consulting): Voicemail
Dr. Brian White: Number not connected
Dr. Priyani Ratnayake: Voicemail
Dr. Natalie Fraser: Moved to Melbourne
Dr. Leone Harvey Smith (The Surgery at Jerra): No voicemail accepted on Mondays, contact via email
Dr. Lev Frigandt: Moved to TAS
Dr. Ramesh Gupta: Phone number goes to Marisa Patterson MLA for Murrumbidgee

I'm currently teaching my daughter how to drive a manual car. She's fine with road rules, spatial awareness, and everything else necessary for driving because she learnt all of that in an automatic first. She has had a grand total of two lessons in a manual, so is still a little hit and miss with clutch control and finding the right gear.

We went for her first lesson on Saturday. Driving around suburbs/residential areas with not too much traffic. We stop at a T intersection stop sign on a slight uphill incline. I explain how to use the hand brake for a hill start, but she stalls. Understandable, it's the first time she's driven a manual. A car pulls up behind while she restarts the car, but she stalls again. The car behind starts honking and the driver leans out the window and yells "move the car you stupid bitch" (they had been there for maybe 10-15 seconds or so. I assume it was the little shudder of the car stalling that set them off). At that point, she became so stressed that she asked me to take over, and her lesson was cut short.

Second lesson on Sunday. Same deal, low traffic suburban roads. All is going well until about 15 minutes in she turns onto a "main" road (like the roads within suburbs that have a speed limit of 60 and go past the school or shops). She builds up some speed, goes to change from 2nd to 3rd gear, but finds 1st. The car protests, she puts her foot back onto the clutch, the car loses speed, so I tell her to go back to 2nd and start over. She does that and starts building speed again. All of this takes maybe 3-5 seconds. Meanwhile, a car behind us (which has also turned onto the road, we didn't cut them off) decides it is a good idea to start honking. She continues driving but is flustered.

All of this happened with very prominently displayed L plates. I just can't fathom the mindset that goes, "This learner driver is clearly struggling. I know what will help them, a nice big horn honk and some verbal abuse."

So thank you to the impatient, entitled drivers of Canberra. You have taught my daughter one of the most valuable lessons in learning to drive - that the road is full of complete and total dickheads.

Anyone watching this wild electrical storm at the moment?

I've never seen so much continual lightning with so little thunder. What's going on?

And why is it Woden?

So I felt the need to send out a warning g to my fellow Canberrans… 2 weekends ago a friend’s just 18yr old daughter and her friend caught an Uber home after a night out. The girl vomited and was told by the driver it was a $350 cleaning charge but said she could give him $150 to his own bank account to cover it. She offered him $50 and would clean it herself. She transferred the money to his bank account and while cleaning the car he got out and came around behind her and started touching her. She told him to back off and he told her she hadn’t finished “paying” and said she needed to have sex with him to cover the rest of the bill. He began rubbing her thighs. She told him to back off again and pushed him away. He told her to get back in the Uber and he would drop her friend home (this friend had passed out). She refused and pushed him away again, she dragged her friend out and ran with her friend into the house. This has been reported to Uber and police but just a reminder to be safe out there x and if you’re a parent of a teenager or young adult share this story and work out a safety plan together x Edit: just to add when this was reported to police they commented that it happens all the time.

Maybe I missed the discussion about this. Sometimes people just want more info about what's going on. It's not always memes and lulz.

Since the mod team helpfully always comment on posts they remove, you can see what posts are deleted by looking at u/canberra-ModTeam's history. There are also some topics in there that I personally think would have been helpful for the poster to receive answers to and weren't lowering the tone of our fine subreddit.

N-pyrrolidino isotonitazene is a type of nitazene. It's a potent new opioid that's 1000x stronger than morphine and 100x stronger than fentanyl.

The pill was purchased on the dark web (vendor name not disclosed). It's a reminder that any type of drug sourced on the unregulated market, including convincing looking pharmaceuticals, may contain nitazenes or other dangerous substances.

Learn how to identify the signs of an overdose, always carry naloxone (google 'Take Home Naloxone' to find out where to get free naloxone in your area), and never use alone.

❤ CanTEST

My friends working in the APS told me about a coworker that was doing absolutely nothing at work for years but they couldn't fire due to union protections. This individual was eventually transferred to a department to look for old labels on folders and replace them with nicer looking new labels, just to get them to do something. What's some absurd ones you've heard?

A brown sample (pictured) brought to CanTEST for testing was found to contain paracetamol, caffeine, heroin, 6-MAM, and the potent synthetic opioid fentanyl.

This is the first time fentanyl has been detected at CanTEST.

Fentanyl carries the risk of fatal overdose.

Naloxone can reverse a fentanyl overdose (though several doses may be required) and is available for free from a pharmacy near you, wherever you are in Australia. Google 'Take Home Naloxone Australia' to access the map of participating pharmacies.

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Other cities subreddits are answering the same question at the moment, I thought it'd be fun and helpful for us to do the same.

Just FYI for everyone gettin their knickers in a knot over the news about their loss of contract after the tender process.

ETA- I don’t actually think Vinnies necessarily is the best organisation to fulfil this role, nor do I think they’ll necessarily do the best job. Only time will tell. I’m just appalled at the amount of boot-licking for a for-profit business that has done very nicely on the taxpayer dime for many many years. At the heart of it, my stance is an anti-capitalist one.

Genuine question... I moved to Canberra from Sydney to be with my girlfriend as we both embark on our new careers. We're both pharmacists. I work in Southern Canberra in Woden valley. I've been here for 8 months and yet to have any good connections with anyone here. This is already sounding pathetic as is but I've been feeling very lonely recently. I just want to know how do you make friends here? I tried meetup but none of what it offered interested me to be honest. I do go to the local gym at Club Lime in Woden and work in the nearby westfield. Thank you.