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Controlled burns around Canberra
THE ACT Rural Fire Service (ACTRFS) will conduct a hazard reduction burn tonight 13th March, 2015, weather permitting, from 5.00pm, in Nicholls adjacent to Stedman Place and Viner Place, Nicholls. 16...
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Silver Linings mark silver jubilee in Tuggeranong
THERE may be clouds in the sky over Canberra and Queanbeyan, but over at Tuggeranong Arts Centre today, the emphasis is on the happier side of life with the launch of ‘Silver Linings’, a project to...
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Duelling residents groups in New Acton fight for the right to party
A group describing themselves as the Irate Residents of Acton (IRA) are very angry that the neighbourhood they have moved into regularly hosts events, some of which are noisy. To show true seriousness...
View ArticleDepartmental Secretary Paul Grimes sacked by Barnaby Joyce
LATIKA Bourke has tweeted an email from the Secretary of the Agriculture Department informing staff that he’s been removed from the job. This will put the frighteners through the Public Service. In...
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Beware: Art not Apart may change your life
BEWARE the Ides of March, they say in ‘Julius Caesar’. Westside Well tomorrow, Saturday, March 13 is two days before the Ides, but Canberra’s public is on notice that the NewActon precinct, Acton Beach...
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Review / Celebrating familiar sights
Ted Richards’ “A Waltz in the Mall”, circa 1964-68.“URBAN Suburban” is an expansive exhibition comprising 104 works – including photography, painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics and...
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Socials / At the World’s Greatest Shave launch, King O’Malley’s, Civic
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Socials / At RAW art group’s ‘Grandeur’ night, Belconnen Arts Centre
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Socials / At the Hollywood Glamour Vintage Ball, Albert Hall
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Skyfire punter busted peddling booze to kids
WHILE crowd numbers were considered down from past years, ACT Policing has praised the behaviour of the large crowd which attended the Skyfire fireworks event over Lake Burley Griffin last night...
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Armed Robbery at the Weston Dominos
ACT Policing is appealing for witnesses to an aggravated robbery that occurred in Weston last night (Saturday, March 14). About 10.45pm police responded to reports of an aggravated robbery at the...
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Review / Poppins: ‘practically perfect in every way’.
YOU won’t need a spoonful of sugar to make this merry musical go down, it’s “practically perfect in every way”. Director Stephen Colyer has achieved a highly-polished, imaginative production which,...
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Dirty water follows Macgregor water main burst
A water main on Florey Drive in Macgregor has burst causing possible water discolouration around the surrounding suburbs – Dunlop, Charnwood, Evatt, Melba, Florey and Holt – for most of today. ACTEW...
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Homeless shelter as provided by the ACT Government
ONE hesitates to mention the haunts of the homeless for fear they’ll be moved on rather than helped. But the spectacle of a growing homeless campground under the eaves of the Canberra Museum is worthy...
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A kayak’s eye view of the Balloon Spectacular
“KAYAKCAMERAMAN” Paul Jurak has sent in a wonderful spread of photographs from this year’s hot air ballooning jamboree over Lake Burley Griffin with these words: What an amazing balloon spectacular it...
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Youth Climate Coalition targets Canberra’s banks with graffiti
CIVIC’s pavements were unusually colourful this morning after Canberra’s Youth Climate Coalition set about with chalk and stencils to draw a line between climate change, the banks’ financing practices,...
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Once were bubblers, the Water Stations near completion
On Petrie Plaza there’s fencing around a new addition to the streetscape nearing completion. No longer humble bubblers these “Water Stations” have provision for the easy filling of water bottles as...
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Review / Sarit Cohen lifts domesticity to humour and art
THERE is a stark contrast in the whitest of fine porcelain objects and robust kitchen utensils – mostly found but occasionally made – in Sarit Cohen’s new work. 2 cups on stainless steel spoonsHer work...
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Trolleys massing and grouping to the west of the Assembly
OUR weekly circumnavigation of the Legislative Assembly turned up troubling news. A stonking seven trolleys were out within sight of the famed golden pillars of the seat of Canberra’s democracy....
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Macklin / Bout of biffo from out of the blue
OUR former Oxford boxing blue PM Tony Abbott discovered a couple more targets for his combination punches – the UN, which had dared criticise our treatment of asylum seekers, and the remote Aboriginal...
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