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Crime statistics just keep getting better
ACT Policing’s newest quarterly crime statistics reveal a 4.3 per cent drop in crime reports across Canberra over the previous 12 months, with Gungahlin displaying the largest reduction. The March...
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Economists line up in the Financial Review to throw rocks at Canberra’s light...
CANBERRA’S Capital Metro plans are gaining national attention with the Australian Financial Review recruiting a conga line of economists and public policy experts (click the top link) to cast doubt on...
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Doran off to Hollywood
IT’S a tough job but somebody’s got to do it, as they say in showbiz (and journalism). Canberra filmmaker, Christian Doran, is off to Hollywood in the next few days after receiving the Judges Choice...
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A Riderless Horse and other arts this weekend
AS part of the 2015 Queanbeyan Heritage Festival and the ANZAC Centenary, Queanbeyan Museum is presenting ‘The Riderless Horse – An Australian Impression of World War 1 in Song’, a 60 minute FREE...
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Fighting breaks out over light rail cancellation costs
SIMON Corbell says the Canberra Liberals’ threats to cancel the Capital Metro project if elected will cost ACT taxpayers potentially hundreds of millions of dollars and put at risk thousands of jobs....
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St Hilliers to build the bush healing farm
SIMON Corbell has announced that St. Hilliers Property Pty Ltd has been awarded a $6 million contract to build the Ngunnawal Bush Healing Farm. “The $6 million head contract has been awarded to a...
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Canberra’s Felicity West wins prestigious scholarship to Gallipoli
CANBERRA’S Australian Air Force Cadet Flight Sergeant Felicity West, aged 16, has been selected to take part in the Anzac Day commemorations at Gallipoli. Felicity has been presented with the...
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Corin Forest burn
A private landholder will this afternoon conduct a small hazard reduction burn at Corin Forest Mountain Resort at Corin Road, Tidbinbilla Range. One pile of vegetation is expected to burn until this...
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Canberra’s “2K Australia” game studio is closing
GAME Developer 2K have provided this statement to IGN on closing their Canberra studio: We can confirm we have taken steps to begin the studio closure process for 2K Australia in order to better...
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Smoke over Canberra is blowing in from Wee Jasper
SMOKE from a hazard reduction burn in the Wee Jasper State Forest, NSW has entered parts of the ACT this afternoon, Thursday 16 April, 2015. There are currently no unattended fires in the ACT. The...
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Stolen Mercedes almost ends up in a swiming pool
ACT Policing is investigating a collision of a car into a backyard pool area on Mathieson Crescent, Weetangera, just before 8pm last night (Thursday 16 April). It appears a Silver E320 Mercedes sedan...
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Review / ‘IT Follows’ (MA) *
SHORTLY after Easter I received an email touting the Australian release of “David Robert Mitchell’s independent horror feature ‘IT Follows’ ’’, asserting that “IT” had “stormed the US speciality box...
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Review / ‘The Age of Adaline’ (M) ***
AT age 33, Adaline Bowman, born on the first day of the 20th century, now a widow with a daughter, experiences an unique set of circumstances that suspends the ageing process in her. For more than...
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Witnesses wanted to Gordon homicide
AS part of its ongoing enquiries into the homicide of a 28-year-old woman in Gordon on March 17, ACT Policing is seeking to contact three to four men who may be able to assist the investigation....
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Review / ‘The Gunman’ (MA) *** and a half
IN his short (1942-1995) life, critically-acclaimed French crime novelist Jean-Patrick Manchette wrote what would become 25 films or TV series. “The Gunman”, the first filmed after his death, probably...
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Beware the warrant and tax scammers
THE ACCC’s SCAMwatch website is advising the community to hang up on people claiming to be holding arrest warrants or claims for outstanding tax. SCAMwatch is warning consumers to be aware of calls...
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Barr says the worst of the public service job cuts are over
ANDREW Barr says Tony Abbott has indicated to him that the worst of the Commonwealth job cuts are behind us. The two met at today’s Council of Australian Governments (COAG) Meeting. “This should give...
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Snow possible for Sunday tweets the local Bureau
The ACT arm of the Bureau of Meteorology has tweeted that there may be snow on Sunday! It certainly looks like it’s going to be wet and miserable for the forseeable future. Cold front moving towards...
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Culturazi taking over Smiths Alternative
THE Culturazi newsletter has offered the exciting news that they’re taking over the recently defunct Smiths Alternative in Civic. The other news is, my offer was accepted by the liquidators and...
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Socials / At Lucky’s Speakeasy first birthday, QT Canberra
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