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Liberals ask where the Ambulance review is?
BRENDAN Smyth says Joy Burch needs to explain why the culture review into the ACT Ambulance Service still hasn’t been released. “It needs to be released to ensure lessons can be learnt and the culture...
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Wasps strike bobcat driver
ACT Ambulance Service intensive care paramedics have treated a male patient aged in his 50’s for European wasp stings on Dobbin Circuit at Nicholls. The male patient who was doing earthworks with a...
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All Government boards being gutted on the orders of the PM’s Office
THE Australian has an astonishing story on multiple confirmations that the Prime Minister’s Office is insisting all Government board appointees from the six years of the last Labor Government cannot...
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$11,000 for a cardboard tram?
ALISTAIR Coe has discovered the cardboard tram used by Simon Corbell to promote light rail earlier this year cost $11,320, Shadow Minister for Transport Alistair Coe said today. “It’s ridiculous but...
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F-35 on display on Russell Hill next week
ON Monday March 9 to Friday March 13, a full-size mock up of the Royal Australia Air Force’s F-35A Lightening II will be placed on public display in Blamey Square, Russell. The F-35A will provide the...
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The Skywhale is not dead, it’s resting
THERE have been reports this morning that the Skywhale had slipped the surly bonds of earth for the last time. Chief Minister Barr has taken to Twitter to calm the horses: Keep Calm – #Skywhale won't...
View ArticleVideo / The week in Politics with Michelle Grattan and Stephen Parker
UNIVERSITY of Canberra Vice-Chancellor Stephen Parker and Professorial Fellow Michelle Grattan discuss the week in politics including impending execution of Australians Andrew Chan and Myuran...
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Socials / At the launch of the Canberra branch of the Thoroughbred Club of...
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Gordon Peake wins the 2014 ACT Book of the Year
JOY Burch says local author Gordon Peake’s book “Beloved Land: Stories, Struggles and Secrets from Timor-Leste” has triumphed over a record field of 48 nominations to win both the 2014 ACT Book of the...
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The Commonwealth coughs up for some animal fences and traffic lights under...
ASSISTANT Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Development Jamie Briggs and Senator Zed Seselja have announced $2.7 million in funding for 4 Black Spot projects across Canberra. “These projects...
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Review / ‘Focus’ (MA) *** and a half
CONFIDENCE tricksters are fertile themes for filmmakers, whether comedy (“Dirty Rotten Scoundrels”) or intense drama (“The Wolf of Wall Street”). “Focus” doesn’t exactly match either of those...
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Review / ‘Unfinished Business’ (M) **
CONSIDER the variety of positions that humans adopt while copulating – missionary sometimes varied as prone à tergo or side-by-side, cowgirl, doggy, knee-trembler and wheelbarrow. Not that many,...
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NGA’s Seated Buddha to return to India
AT a surprise press conference this morning, the director of the National Gallery of Australia, Gerard Vaughan, announced that the gallery had negotiated a settlement for an ancient Indian Buddhist...
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Review / ‘Seventh Son’ (M) ***
SERGEI Bodrov’s filming of a novel by Joseph Delaney offers spectacular visual imagery, both natural (mainly in Canada) and computer-generated, a vigorous plot, exciting action, a cast unfazed by the...
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The seas are alive with the sound of David Hobson – and friends
REMEMBER David Hobson? — His high, crystal clear tenor enchanted audiences around our opera houses in the 1990s and earned him international fame as Rodolfo in Baz Luhrmann’s production of “La Bohème.”...
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Controlled burns all around the ACT next week
ACT Parks and Conservation Service is advising the public that from Tuesday 10 March 2015 multiple hazard reduction burns will be conducted across the ACT, weather permitting. The burns will be...
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Canberra’s scrap metal re-opens rail freight to Sydney
MICK Gentleman has announced a new transport initiative to move freight from Canberra by rail. The ACT Government and the NSW Government have signed up to a two year trial whereby scrap metal will be...
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Review / Good ‘Evita’, but could try harder
EXCELLENT singing from the leads highlighted a good production of “Evita”. Director Jim McMullen carefully marshalled a large and enthusiastic cast on an impressive and functional set designed by him...
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Guitar to the head in Hackett leads to arrest
ACT Policing has charged a 30-year-old NSW man with assault following an incident in Hackett yesterday afternoon (Saturday, March 7) in which a 30-year-old man suffered serious head injuries. Around...
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Socials / At the Seppelt Black Opal race day, Thoroughbred Park
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