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Arts / ‘Top Cat’ comes home to sing
Celebrated coloratura soprano Lorina Gore… the petite diva has hit her straps.IF there were ever a candidate emerging from the Canberra arts scene for the title of “Top Cat” it’d have to be the...
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Canberra accountants Joyce|Dickson join MGI
CANBERRA accounting firm Joyce|Dickson Accountants has joined the MGI alliance, one of the largest alliances of independent accounting firms in the world, with member firms in 82 countries....
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Aitkin / We can’t escape the role of coal
IN my recent little piece on light rail, I ventured the view that the ACT government’s initiative was driven, in part, by its feelings about climate change and perhaps a feeling that the day of “peak...
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IT’S extremely rare that reviewer DOUGAL MACDONALD awards five stars for a movie (and possibly only the second time in the years he’s been writing for us). And so he has this week on Page 24. The post...
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Canberra Confidential / Canberra chalkie meets Obama, sort of
President Barack Obama beside Ryan Devlin during the 2014 National Teacher of the Year ceremony at the White House.HERE’S a photo of a new year 2 teacher for Hughes Primary School. It’s the guy on the...
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Helpful advice on how to be a better parent from the ACT Government
JOY Burch has launched a new publication, “Progressing Parental Engagement”, and handy fact sheets to help families and schools to better understand what parental engagement is, why it matters, how it...
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Letters / It’s all Tony’s fault
RE Robert Macklin’s column (CN, January 29). A woman cyclist gets skittled by a ‘roo while passing The Lodge. Of course that’s PM Tony Abbott’s fault – he’s been raising a mob of roos among The Lodge...
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Ian Young to call it quits at ANU
ANU’S Vice-Chancellor Ian Young has announced he won’t be seeking another term when his current appointment expires in February 2016. ANU Chancellor Gareth Evans said that he understood and accepted...
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Greens call for long term rooftop solar feed-in pricing
SHANE Rattenbury has renewed calls for a guaranteed, fair price for rooftop solar in the ACT in the wake of the collapse of another local solar installation firm, Armada Solar. “All Canberrans could...
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Property Council applauds selling off the street lights and the Northbourne...
THE Property Council of Australia has welcomed the Chief Minister Barr’s announcement that the ACT Government is looking to take advantage of the federal government’s $5 billion asset recycling...
View ArticleVideo / “House of Cards” parody done in the key of Canberra
Tim McDonald has YouTubed a parody of Parliaments current leadership shenanigans set in Canberra and wonderfully crosscut with the much loved “House of Cards”. Well worth staying for the credits, and...
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Record vacancies in Canberra offices
THE office market vacancy rate in Canberra increased over the past six months to its highest level on record according to the Property Council of Australia’s latest Office Market Report released...
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Wasp warning!
THE ACT Government is reminding residents to remain on the lookout for European wasps in the ACT after a number of nests have been found in houses, gardens and parks in Canberra. “The European wasp is...
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Grattan / Sinodinos weighs into leadership crisis with tough critique of...
By Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra IN 2001, after a disastrous Queensland election result, then-Liberal federal president Shane Stone wrote his famous memo reporting that the Howard...
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Socials / At the Type Masters Exhibition opening, Gallery of Australian Design
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The Bureau of Meteorology gets a local ACT Twitter feed
JOINING all the other cool kids on Twitter the much beloved Bureau of Meteorology has launched a local Canberra Twitter feed. It appears followers will be getting updates like: #CanberraWeather cloud...
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Socials / At the opening of ‘Let me be myself – the story of Anne Frank’,...
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Liberals ask where the speed camera report is?
ALISTAIR COE is asking to see the findings of a $160,000speed camera report that the ACT Labor government seems to have kept secret for months. “Following a string of problems with ACT Labor’s speed...
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Andrew Barr wants to transform parking in Canberra
ANDREW Barr and Mick Gentleman are inviting Canberrans to share their views on plans to transform parking in the ACT through the implementation of smart parking technologies. The stated goal is...
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Grattan on Friday: Abbott should step down in favour of Turnbull
By Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra WHEN Malcolm Turnbull appeared at Thursday night’s politics in the pub on the NSW central coast the first questioner demanded to know whether he was...
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