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Higgins chemist robbed at knifepoint
A 28-year-old NSW man will face Court after robbing a Higgins chemist at knifepoint yesterday. About 11am, the alleged offender entered the Higgins Capital Chemist armed with a large kitchen knife. He...
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‘Eye popper’ wins popular award
A STRIKING photographic portrait of a Dickson College student is the winner in the inaugural “People’s Choice” award selected from the recent “College Express 5” show at Belconnen Arts Centre of works...
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OUR regular columnists are back from the holidays and firing: MICHAEL MOORE thinks the ASIO building fence stinks; ROBERT MACKLIN says a “coward’s punch” tragedy in the ACT is only a matter of time and...
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Arts in the city: Blazing burst of eight local artists
“BLAZE Eight”, an exhibition by eight (of course) local artists – S.A. Adair, Katherine Griffiths, Martin James, Alex Lewis, Hardy Lohse, Katy Mutton, Jemima Parker, Tim Phillips – is expected to set...
View ArticleGallery restaurant with the topical taste of Peru
GOLD and the Incas at the National Gallery is a “great excuse to play with the energetic colour combinations, divine golden trims and the joy of food and family that the Peruvian culture enjoys”. This...
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Singer home for awards
DAMIEN Bermingham is one of the busiest actor singers in Australian showbiz. Prize-winning actor singer Damien Bermingham.The winner of a Sydney Theatre Award for Best Actor in a musical, he’s toured...
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Hang on to scorched foliage
WITH the distinct possibility of more extreme heat before autumn, it is important not to cut back heat-affected foliage. Browning on the tips of the leaves… an indication of a plant needing water.This...
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Socials: At the Maxim Invitational 2014, North Woden Tennis Club, Hughes.
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Socials: At business events soiree, Dialogue Business Centre, Barton
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Socials: At exhibition openings, Craft ACT centre, Civic
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Rabbit baiting program begins in Hughes
A RABBIT baiting program has begun in south Canberra, to target a loss of vegetation. The program will target the Hughes area from next week, with help from Territory and Municipal Services and the...
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Review: ‘Endless Love’ (M) *
PREPARING for this remake of Franco Zeffirelli’s 1981 low-impact adolescent melodrama, writer/director Shana Feste’s shopping list might have included a couple of kilos of cliché, a litre of...
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Review: ‘Dallas Buyers Club’ (MA) *** and a half
THIS film is based-on-actual-events film and describes how a man living just above the societal level occupied by the bottom feeders, reacted to a doctor’s diagnosis that he is HIV positive with a life...
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Review: ‘Blue is the Warmest Color’ (R) ****
IN the “New Yorker” of October 24, Emily Greenhouse cited actresses Lea Seydoux and Adele Exarchopoulos saying that the shooting of Tunisian film-maker Abdellatif Kechiche’s film had been unbearable....
View ArticleFour exposed to hydrocarbon at ACTEW site
FOUR people have been hospitalised after being exposed to hydrocarbon on an ACTEW work site in Symonston this morning. A fifth patient is being assessed at the scene by the ACT Ambulance Service....
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Crispin appointed Assembly Commissioner
Ken Crispin QCFORMER Supreme Court judge Ken Crispin QC has been appointed the inaugural Legislative Assembly Commissioner for Standards. The appointment, for an initial period of two years, was...
View ArticleTiny increase to electricity price
ELECTRICITY prices are likely to rise by a modest 1.2 per cent from July 1, according to a draft determination by the Independent Competition and Regulatory Commission. A response to the decision from...
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The secrets to selecting ‘super foods’
SUPER foods don’t have an agreed upon definition but there’s a general consensus they contain superior amounts of nutrition (vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, essential fats, etc) compared to other...
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What Simon says is wrong
I’M a fat old man. And if I don’t regularly ride my road bike, I get fatter and feel older. Simon Corbell I rode up to Royalla for a bit of fun last week. That Monaro Highway hill at the back of...
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New plans for Gorman House
GORMAN House Arts Centre in Ainslie Ave Braddon has really been abuzz since the livewire Joseph Falsone took over the helm last year. Joseph Falsone at Gorman HouseNow news is to hand this morning...
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