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ACT Policing seized a firearm during a search warrant yesterday (Friday 27 March), following investigations into recent Southside shooting incidents. About 3pm, police executed a section 194 Crimes...
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Arrow attack on Calwell home
ACT Policing is investigating an incident in Calwell where a window was damaged by an arrow during the early hours of this morning (March 28). About 1.45am, police received a report that a window had...
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Socials / At Romance on the Rail, Kingston
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Canberra’s Nexus eWater secures funding
CHIEF Minister Andrew Barr is congratulating local company Nexus eWater Pty Ltd after the successful closing of $2.1 million in Series A funding from Investors in the US, Australia and UK with...
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More burns in the mountains
ACT Parks and Conservation Service wishes to advise the public that a 938 hectare hazard reduction burn will commence today west of the Cotter River. The burn will reduce fire fuel loads in the area...
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Chris Kimball to run Snowy Hydro SouthCare
CANCER support advocate and former award-winning ABC journalist and television presenter Chris Kimball has been appointed the new Chief Executive of the Snowy Hydro SouthCare Rescue Helicopter Trust....
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Proposed new electoral boundaries to be released tomorrow
THE ACT Electoral Commissioner Phillip Green says the proposed redistribution of the ACT into 5 electorates will be published tomorrow. A map of the proposed boundaries will be published by the ACT...
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Higgins fire
FIREFIGHTERS are working to extinguish a fire in a kitchen at Nicholas Street, Higgins. ACT Fire & Rescue has two fire pumpers on scene with a third unit responding. Update to follow. 2:21 PM The...
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The IGA East Row House Program launched at Calvary Hospital
THE IGA East Row House (IGAERH) Project has started at Calvary Hospital. The program is intended to minimise financial hardship by providing quality and affordable or free accommodation to visiting...
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‘Aida’ – spectacle with passionate intensity
“AIDA” is an opera as much celebrated for its spectacle as for its music, making it the perfect opera for this now annual large scale outdoor staging. The composer Verdi was originally commissioned to...
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Fyshwick burglary spree
ACT Policing is seeking witnesses to five burglaries in Fyshwick on Friday morning (March 27), believed to be related. Between 5.30am and 6am on Friday (March 27), an offender gained entry to five...
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Adoption exhibition conveys ‘a hard truth’, says Gillard
FORMER Prime Minister of Australia, Julia Gillard was on hand today at the National Archives to launch an exhibition that she said conveyed “a hard truth.” That hard truth was the unpleasantness of...
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Fire at the Stuart Flats
FIREFIGHTERS are responding to a house fire in the Stuart Flats complex on Light Street in Griffith. Smoke is reported to be issuing from a home. ACT Fire & Rescue is sending three fire pumpers,...
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New electoral boundaries unveiled
THE ACT Redistribution Committee has announced its proposed redistribution of the ACT into 5 electorates. “The Committee has proposed that the ACT be divided into electorates named Brindabella,...
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Betty Churcher has died
ART-lovers around Australia have been saddened to learn of the death of artist, gallery director and writer Betty Churcher at the age of 84 following a diagnosis of inoperable liver cancer. Her death...
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Arts in the City / Budget cuts send dance chief from job
Neil Roach… job lost to government cuts.SAD dance-lovers have farewelled retiring Ausdance ACT director of eight years, Neil Roach. When we say “retiring”, Roach finds himself without a job and...
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Vail resorts buys up Perisher
NORTH American ski field heavyweights Vail Resorts have announced their intention to buy the Perisher ski resort. “The acquisition of our first international mountain resort is a significant milestone...
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The zoo’s new giraffe causing a social media stir
Twitter and Instagram are abuzz today as the National Zoo and Aquarium’s new giraffe has made his way through town dodging low branches over our roads. Tweets about giraffe canberra [Photo by...
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Barr’s plan for business
AS part of ANDREW BARR’s speech to the Canberra Business Chamber 2015 ‘State of the Territory’ Luncheon at the National Press Club he has outlined plans to establish a Small Business Research...
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A friend for Captain Cook –‘Portrait of William Bligh’
CAPTAIN James Cook has a friend at the National Portrait Gallery from today with the unveiling of a new acquisition, “Portrait of William Bligh, in master’s uniform” c. 1776 by John Webber. “Portrait...
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