Video / Worlds worst shoplifters at Joe’s Motorcycles
IN the wake of Saturday’s robbery at Joe’s Motorcycles on Collie Street, Fyshwick, ACT Policing have released video of what appears to be a world’s worst practice attempt to shoplift. The duo do,...
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Snow in Civic, and the rest of Canberra!
IT’S snowing in Civic right now! Nothing settling on the ground but if you get a picture do send it in to john@citynews.com.au . What a day for the rain radar to be offline! The first picture is in...
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Socials / At the Currie-Monash Commemorative Dinner, War Memorial
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Socials / At the Chartered Accountants’ public sector symposium, Press Club
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View ArticleRemembering Canberra’s Air Disaster
SEVENTY Five years ago today an RAAF Hudson bomber carrying a large chunk of the Menzies Cabinet and the Australian High Command crashed into a hill overlooking Canberra airport with no survivors. With...
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Film Festival to adopt ‘grassroots’ focus
HOORAY! The Canberra International Film Festival has been rescued by a team of local experts and will be back with a ‘grassroots’ focus. New home for festival As well, it will have a new home at the...
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Grattan / Abbott no doubt is recalling Howard’s playbook for the 1999...
Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra TONY Abbott is burnishing his lines for a popular vote on same-sex marriage in the next term, if he wins one. Abbott told parliament on Wednesday: “Going into...
View ArticleThe candidate handbook is out for the 2016 ACT election
EVERY person and their dog are expected to take a crack at next year’s ACT election. The five last-place seats in each electorate are going to be a preference lottery, and Canberra’s outer suburbs are...
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New indigenous protections in Canberra’s legal system
SIMON Corbell says police officers will be required to notify the Aboriginal Legal Service before asking an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person to consent to a forensic procedure under new...
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Committee says no to Shane’s medical marijuana
THE Standing Committee on Health, Ageing, Community and Social Services has tabled its report on the Inquiry into the Exposure Draft of the Drugs of Dependence (Cannabis Use for Medical Purposes)...
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Samsung partnering with Questacon
QUESTACON and Samsung have announced the launch of a technology partnership to support Australia’s future inventors, technologists and entrepreneurs. The three-year technology partnership will see...
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Reforms to managing Canberra’s child sex offenders
SIMON Corbell says police will have better powers to manage registered child sex offenders under proposed amendments to the ACT’s child sex offender laws introduced in the Legislative Assembly today....
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The secret life of sausages
Author David Peddle… “The science behind making sausages might seem very deep and complex, but making sausages is easy.” Photo by Rohan ThomsonFROM kangaroo and beer to chocolate and chilli, former...
View ArticleFloriade 2015 is getting ready to go with the theme of ‘Reflection’
IT’S not long to go now until Floriade signals the arrival of Spring in Canberra. The year the event runs from Saturday September 12 until Sunday October 11. With the popular Nightfest running from...
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Adamson and Gemes at Manning Clark
MANNING Clark House is hopping with activity in the new few days, with events set around one of Australia’s eminent poets and his photographer partner. Robert Adamson 2010, photo by Juno Gemes Poet...
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Smyth savages the Lease Variation Charge
BRENDAN Smyth says Andrew Barr’s Lease Variation Charge (LVC) is still stifling Canberra businesses, demonstrated by the fact that it continues to draw significantly less than projected revenue. “Here...
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Cartoon / Dose of Dorin
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Review / ‘Girlhood’ (M) ***
FRENCH filmmaker Céline Sciamma’s third feature, observing black teenaged girls living in deprived social, intellectual and emotional circumstances, is not an easy film to get one’s head around. Here’s...
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Review / ‘Iris’ (PG) *** and a half
FEW Australians, unless they have experienced the New York art scene, will have heard of Iris Apfel. The final work by documentarist Alfred Maysles can change that. Why bother? Because Maysles’s...
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Review / ‘5 Levels Up’ (PG) ****
RICHARD Loncraine was in his 70th year when he directed this delightful comedy starring delectable Dianne Keaton who’s close to his age, opposite Morgan Freeman, nine years his senior. That trio of...
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