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Young art prizewinner inspired by keen knitter
A Hawker College student is the winner of this year’s Ray White Belconnen Art Prize for $500, announced this evening at Belconnen Arts Centre. Sheida Sabet Raftar, Lois, pencil on paper, 2014 – Ray...
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Gary Humphries appointed Deputy President of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal
ATTORNEY-GENERAL George Brandis has announced that Canberra’s former Senator and Chief Minister Gary Humphries has landed a very juicy job as Deputy President of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal....
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Man charged over historic armed robbery in Mawson
A 59-year-old Jerrabomberra man will appear in the ACT Magistrates Court this morning over an aggravated robbery in Mawson 10 years ago. Police will charge the man with aiding and abetting the May...
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Chief Minister Barr shuffles the ministerial responsibilities
CHIEF Minister Andrew Barr (take a second to let that sink in) has announced new Ministerial responsibilities in the wake of Katy Gallagher’s departure from the Legislative Assembly. Andrew Barr...
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Glassmaker to use award in jewellery-making
THE Canberra Australian Decorative and Fine Arts Society’s Young Arts Award has gone to glassmaker Laura Sandoval. The amount of $1000 given by ADFAS Canberra is used by the artist to further a project...
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The Geminids meteor shower should be one of the best this year
Image captured December 2013 of several Geminids meteors seen from the Observatorio del Teide (IAC) in Tenerife. Flickr/StarryEarth, CC BY-NC By Jonti Horner, University of Southern Queensland; Donna...
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Rural road closures due to rain
THE ACT Government has given notice the the following roads have been closed due to recent wet weather. Point Hut Crossing Sunshine Crossing Angle Crossing The post Rural road closures due to rain...
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Cartoon / Dose of Dorin
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Enough water mains in Canberra to reach to Darwin!
ACTEW Water have posted an eyebrow raising tweet. Here in the “CityNews” newsroom we certainly thought that pub trivia winning factoid was worthy of your attention. #Fridayfact: We operate and...
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BMW attacks the Yarralumla White Apple gift shop
OUR man on the ground in Yarralumla has sent in a picture of significant excitement in Yarralumla where a silver BMW has launched itself down steps and into a giftware shop, apparently dragging...
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Review / ‘Folies Bergere’ (M) *** and a half
MARC Fitoussi’s agreeable film arrives here with a minor identity crisis. “La Ritournelle” in its native French, in the US it’s “Paris Follies”. None of the three is totally appropriate. On a Normandy...
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Your guide to what Govenment services are doing around Canberra over Christmas
TERRITORY and Municipal Services is advising Canberrans of trading hours and changes to services over the Christmas and New Year period. Libraries ACT Libraries ACT branches and the ACT Heritage...
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The camels are back on City Walk!
CANBERRA’S City Walk is once again adorned by magnificent camels offering free rides to get in the Christmas spirit. Canberra CBD Limited promised the rides are fun for all ages, and that the seating...
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Review / ‘Horrible Bosses 2′ (MA) No stars
AS Sean Anders’s sequel to Seth Gordon’s 2011 pungent dissection of business power plays progressed, I suppressed an urge to walk out. The moments of best merit in “HB2”, jointly directed by Anders and...
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Review / ‘Paddington’ (G) *** and a half
IN a Peruvian jungle, explorer Montgomery Clyde befriends an extraordinary bear species hitherto unknown to science. It can speak human-speak. Its preferred diet is marmalade sandwiches. Clyde assures...
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Mugga Lane accepting waste again
TERRITORY and Municipal Services are advising that the Mugga Lane landfill will recommence accepting all of the ACT’s general waste from Saturday 20 December 2014. As a result the West Belconnen...
View ArticleReview / Music to bring out the ghosts
It wasn’t a dark and stormy night, but the ghosts of Yarralumla Woolshed would have danced a spooky jig in a thoroughly scary, gloomily lit concert of eerie music from The Griffyn Ensemble. As the...
View ArticleReview / Transported by Turrell
TO enter alone, lying on a flat bed, into the large sphere that is Turrell’s “Bindu Shards (2010) Perpetual cell”, results in a transcendent and profound experience. Physical and temporal barriers...
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Grave concerns for abducted baby
Gary Gordon… urged to come forward.Police hold “grave concerns” for a the welfare of a seven-week-old baby allegedly abducted by his father from an O’Malley house early this morning. They are urging...
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Review: When poetry is left to wash over
TS ELIOT’S poem “The Waste Land” is brought to life in a vibrant recitation by Julian Lamb accompanied by the haunting cello of David Pereira . TS EliotLamb acknowledges that the poem’s “notorious...
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