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Controlled burns in Oxley and Yarralumla
THE ACT Rural Fire Service (ACTRFS) will conduct two hazard reduction burns tomorrow, weather permitting. The first burn will commence at 10.00am in Oxley adjacent to Mckibbin Place and Newman Morris...
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Review / ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ (MA) **
A RECENT article in “The Australian Review” summarised the three “Mad Max” films that 36 years ago propelled Australian filmmaker George Miller to fame as “a high-octane visceral ride into a dystopian...
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Review / ‘A Royal Night Out’ (M) ** and a half
AT midnight GMT on May 8, 1945, peace in Europe was declared after almost six years of World War II. Julian Jarrold’s film purporting to portray that night’s events opened in Australia six days after...
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Lyn Mills’ social event of the week
IN Budget week, where one side of town was taking itself very seriously telling us to “have a go” and the other indulging in the fun and frivolity of a four-day fashion fest, a serious and unresolved...
View ArticleReview / Charm of eclectic ‘Connections’
“MAKING Connections” is an innovative exhibition that comprises modern and contemporary works by well-known South-East Asian artists. The exhibition draws upon the cultural collections of the...
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Do you want Uber in Canberra? The Government wants to know
SHANE Rattenbury and Andrew Barr are inviting Canberrans to share their views on the ACT taxi industry and how new technologies and business models can better serve the ACT. “The taxi industry is...
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Fashfest / Make-up ‘unlike any other’
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Fashfest catwalk / Night 3
FRIDAY night Fashfest has an unmistakable party vibe. The audience is finished work for the week, wine is flowing and pumping music fills the space in the new location, the Canberra Convention Centre....
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Socials / At Fashfest Night 3, Canberra Convention Centre
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Assault in Kambah
POLICE are calling for witnesses who may have seen an assault take place at the Caltex Service Station on O’Halloran Circuit, Kambah last night (Saturday, 16 May). Between 8:30pm and 8:50pm, a man was...
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Socials / At the re-opening of the Polish Australian White Eagle Club, Turner
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Socials / At the Blue & White Gala Ball, QT Hotel, Civic
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Socials / At Fashfest, Night 4, Canberra Convention Centre
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Fashfest catwalk/ Night 4 finale
It was the procession up and down the 45-metre catwalk by the team who pulled Fashfest together that was perhaps the most impressive part of closing night. Designers (who love showcasing their work,...
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Work starts on the Secure Mental Health Unit
SIMON Corbell has kicked off construction of the Secure Mental Health Unit. “The $43.5 million facility will provide 25 overnight in-patient beds, which will be opened in a staged process once the...
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Review / Adult science night at Questacon
THERE’S no band in the world as wonderfully nerdy as They Might Be Giants. No wonder then that the first thing I thought of watching the throngs rushing around Questacon’s Adults Only Science Night...
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New ACT electoral boundaries approved
THE final make-up of the ACT Legislative Assembly electoral boundaries for the 2016 election has been announced today by the ACT Electoral Commissioner Phillip Green. “The Augmented ACT Electoral...
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Kowen burns
ACT Parks and Conservation Service wishes to advise the public that a hazard reduction burn at Kowen Forest will commence today and will take two to three days to complete, weather conditions...
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Academy punch up, Police seek witnesses
ACT Policing is seeking witnesses to an assault that occurred in a nightclub on Sunday morning. About 2.45am the 18-year-old victim was sitting on a lounge, near the bar, within the Academy Nightclub,...
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Review / The Real Deal – Count Basie band
PERHAPS a touring schedule which saw them in Newcastle Thursday, Perth Friday, Adelaide Saturday then Canberra Sunday contributed to them looking a bit weary but members of the Count Basie Orchestra...
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