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The first cygnets of spring sighted by Lake Burley Griffin
RITA Parker has sent in this lovely picture showing signs of new life in Canberra. Sadly the Bureau is indicating a return to winter next week with deep subzero temperatures overnight and the mercury...
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Review / ‘Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation’ (M) ***
IN writer/director Christopher McQuarrie’s melange of action, comedy, stylised violence, imagination and freedom of spirit making its 131 minutes less tedious than expected, Tom Cruise again plays...
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Review / ‘Far From Men’ (M) ****
WRITER/director David Oelhoffen’s feature film debut converts Albert Camus’s short story “L’Hŏte” into a comfortably-paced message film that presses the right buttons about moral and ethical issues...
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Vote 1 for your favourite club
CLUBSACT has launched the inaugural People’s Choice Awards and invites Canberrans to vote for their favourite club. The three awards – categorised as small, medium and large – will be made in...
View ArticleTiny’s free gelato has them queuing up again
TINY’S Green Shed has discovered the astonishing power of offering Canberrans free things. In this case their monthly giveaway of a gelato cone has again had the punters queuing on City Walk for ice...
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Gilmore girl arrested over car theft
ACT Policing’s Criminal Investigations Team executed a search warrant yesterday (Friday, 31 July) as part of an investigation into a series of aggravated burglaries and stolen motor vehicles which...
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Griffiths / When the thrill is gone, racism remains
Lonely hero… August Landmesser refusing to give the Nazi salute in a large German crowd in 1936.BEING part of a large crowd baying for blood is immensely fun. Doubt and anxiety disappear. We’re no...
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Review / Intense drama of spooky ‘Gaslight’
Elizabeth talks the mistress roundBELLA Manningham (Kate Blackhurst) has been going mad – or so she has been told. Her husband Jack (Peter Holland) raves at her about her mistakes and lapses,...
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Lyn Mills’ social event of the week
“STRONGER than Fiction”, the Canberra documentary film festival, has grown because of good local support and a commitment by co-producers Simon Weaving and Deb Kingsland to seek and obtain...
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Socials / At the Brumby Ball, AIS Arena, Bruce
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Socials / At Canberräng’s ‘Mayor’s Ball’, Albert Hall
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McKellar club robbed at gunpoint
ACT Policing is seeking witnesses to the aggravated robbery of the Belconnen Soccer Club in McKellar late last night (Saturday, 1 August). About 11.07pm, a single male offender entered the club armed...
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Review: Unexpected moments of intimacy
SUBTITLED “70 years of wit, whimsy, satire and sedition”, this concert of music by Martin and Peter Wesley-Smith was very entertaining, with the varied selection of music showing the clever and...
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Voices from Gallipoli at the Archives
Sappers on deck the Orvieto – November 1914 (R.G. Casey album, National Archives of Australia)THE National Archives of Australia has collaborated with the State Library of NSW to bring some of the...
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What is missing from this photo?
WHAT’s missing in the pictured scene from the coming production of Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men”? Yes, full marks – it’s Candy’s decrepit, unnamed old sheep dog, one of the main figures in the...
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Cartoon / A Dose of Dorin
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Liberals call for a domestic violence court
JEREMY Hanson is calling for a single, dedicated court to deal with the ACT’s domestic violence cases, to ensure consistency and higher expertise in the area. “We need a dedicated magistrate to deal...
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Macklin / An outrageous week in black and white
TWO very different personalities dominated this past week – Tony Abbott’s white-haired girl, Speaker Bronwyn Bishop, and the AFL dark avenger, former Australian of the Year, Adam Goodes. Ms Bishop’s...
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Fyshwick Mail Centre evacuated by unidentified substance
ACT Fire & Rescue crews are at the Fyshwick Mail Centre on Canberra Avenue, after an unknown substance was found in a package. The building and staff have been isolated. Firefighters in HAZMAT...
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Socials / At the ‘Last Cab to Darwin’ red-carpet premiere, Civic
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