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Dan’s big hillclimb for little hearts
Dan Cummins… “I wanted to do something that raised money for charity and celebrated my brother’s life.”SINCE 2009, Dan Cummins has raised $45,000 for the charity HeartKids through his annual HeartKids...
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Parton / When relationships go horribly wrong
TOO many people are losing their lives in so-called “crimes of passion” and too many others are being crushed by ongoing abuse. Mark PartonI don’t know what the answer is, but as a city and as a...
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“The Competition’ livens up film group
THE POPULAR ANU Film Group is going local tonight at 7:30pm (Wed March 11) with a screening of Simon Weaving’s debut full-length feature, “The Competition.” Filmed in and around the ACT and the...
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Fire at Tuggeranong Homeworld
FIREFIGHTERS are on scene at Dan Murphys, at the Tuggeranong Homeworld complex, Scollay Street, Greenway, following a small electrical fire in a light fitting. Approximately 10 people were evacuated...
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Grattan / In Conversation with Scott Morrison: From confrontation to a search...
By Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra IN racing parlance, Scott Morrison is sitting one out and one back, very well placed politically for both the short and longer terms. If Tony Abbott...
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Hanson calls for Domestic Violence roundtable
JEREMY Hanson is calling for the ACT Labor government to conduct a community roundtable on domestic violence ahead of the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) meeting in July. He says the ACT...
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Operation Slipper homecoming parade
THE end of 2014 will mark the conclusion of Operation SLIPPER, Australia’s military contribution to the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) mission in Afghanistan, and the International...
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Revolutionary rabble-rouser on screen this Saturday
ART, NOT APART is almost upon us and an unusual film with a Canberra angle will be screened in NewActon as part of the day-long event this Saturday. Avant-garde poet and playwright Christopher Barnett...
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Social / At the end-of-season gala dinner for the UC Capitals, Barton
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An unexpected audit of Calvary Hospital
THE ACT Auditor-General has popped an unusual set of bullet points onto the front page of their website. The ACT Auditor-General has decided to conduct: a performance audit of Calvary Public...
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A small sum for domestic violence from the ACT Government
SIMON Corbell has announced an extra $300,000 in funding to address family and domestic violence. The funding from the Confiscated Assets Trust Fund will be used for the development of an ACT domestic...
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Fire at the railway museum
FIREFIGHTERS are working to extinguish a fire in a carriage at the Railway Museum, Cunningham Street, Kingston. The carriage has been moved out of the shed at the Museum and ACT Fire & Rescue has...
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New software for sports concussions
SHANE Rattenbury has joined Sports Medicine Australia ACT Branch (SMA-ACT), to launch new software designed to record and collate data about injuries, as well as monitoring concussion rates across the...
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In case you’d missed it, Skyfire is on tomorrow night
DEFENCE is warning that they’ll be joining in the Skyfire show tomorrow with their own things that go zoom and bang prior to the fireworks. Australia’s Federation Guard will conduct Precision Drill...
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Recycling bin dumpers will need to worry about more CCTV now
SHANE Rattenbury says the ACT Government is stepping up monitoring at recycling drop-off centres around the ACT in a bid to reduce costly illegal dumping of waste at these facilities, with upgrades to...
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Police ask parents at Skyfire to label their children
ACT Policing is preparing for Skyfire this weekend. Underage drinking will continue to be a focus for ACT Policing at this event along with anti-social behaviour. Operation Commander for the event,...
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Review / ‘Inherent Vice’ (MA) *** and a half
IT’S 1978 and Shasta the ex-girlfriend of drug-addled PI “Doc” Sportello (Joaquin Phoenix) is telling the audience how she has kicked her addictions and is now counselling schoolkids about sensible...
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Bikie shootings in Kambah, Stirling and Florey
ACT Policing is responding to reports of the discharge of firearms in three incidents overnight (Thursday 12 March). About 9.50pm last night, police received reports of shots fired in Boustead...
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Review / ‘Top Five’ (MA) *** and a half
Chris Rock and Rosario Dawson in “Top Five”.MY lack of interest in black comedian Chris Rock collapsed after seeing “Top Five”, a mixture of acerbic social observations and sharp comedy that he wrote,...
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Review / ‘Kidnapping Mr Heineken’ (M) ***
Anthony Hopkins in “Kidnapping Mr Heineken” .IN 1982, Dutch brewing magnate Freddy Heineken was kidnapped and eventually rescued after payment of reputedly the biggest ransom ever paid for an...
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