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The underlying sediments now make up the Canberra Formation. Between Hall and Nanima Hill on Spring Range, the Mount Painter Volcanics lie unconformably on top. These rocks date from the Late Wenlockian epoch of the Silurian period. They were formed about the same time as the Walker Volcanics and Paddys River Volcanics.
Queensland – Standard Time Act 1894 [14] New South Wales – Standard Time Act 1987 [15] Australian Capital Territory and Jervis Bay Territory – Standard Time and Summer Time Act 1972 [16] Victoria – Summer Time Act 1972 [17] Tasmania – Standard Time Act 1895 [18] and the Daylight Saving Act 2007 [19]
After independence in 1947, the Indian government established IST as the official time for the whole country, although Mumbai and Kolkata retained their own local time for a few more years. [8] In 2014 Assamese politicians proposed following a daylight-saving schedule that would be ahead of IST by an hour, but as of March 2020 it has not been ...
Since 1992 the festival had been staged at Exhibition Park in Canberra (EPIC) at Easter from Easter Thursday – Easter Monday. It was cancelled in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia , and in 2021 was held as a 2-day event dubbed Good Folk at venues spread across Queanbeyan in New South Wales.
The Indian Standard Time was adopted on 1 January 1906 during the British era with the phasing out of its precursor Madras Time (Railway Time), [2] and after Independence in 1947, the Union government established IST as the official time for the whole country, although Kolkata and Mumbai retained their own local time (known as Calcutta Time and Bombay Time) until 1948 and 1955, respectively. [3]
Within nine months the new trains and improved journey time had led to a 50 per cent increase in passenger numbers. [57] Initially the Canberra-Sydney Xplorer trains were just two carriages, but were expanded to three carriages in 1995. [58] [59] From 23 April 1995, the X 2000 tilt train ran between Canberra and Sydney for a seven-week trial ...
In Melbourne and Sydney, new non-geographic 90xx xxxx and 91xx xxxx ranges became available. Canberra also got a new 61xx xxxx range. Until November 1998, the only mobile numbers available were in the 040x and 041x ranges, to allow time for the existing 04x area codes (then New South Welsh regional codes) to be converted to (02) 4xxx xxxx numbers.
Parts of Canberra formed the backdrop for Cold War espionage activity, highlighted during the 1954 Petrov Affair when a Soviet Union spy defected to Australia. Telopea Park in south Canberra was a known drop-off point for KGB spies based at the nearby USSR Embassy. This embassy was constantly monitored by ASIO agents based in the Kingston Hotel ...