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Dr Colin Jackson is the ACT Scientist of the Year
ANDREW Barr says an ANU scientist whose work combines the disciplines of biology, physics and chemistry is the ACT’s first Scientist of the Year. “Dr Colin Jackson, a Future Fellow in the Research...
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Dining / The best and getting better…
IT’S no surprise that Pialligo Estate Farmhouse is getting rave reviews all round and picked up the “Best Restaurant” gong at the July 2015 AHA ACT Hospitality Awards. Wendy Johnson.This is a super...
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Fladun / No matter the snow, spring is in the air!
HARD to believe, but spring is in the air. Sure, it actually snowed in central Canberra last week and people posted pictures of snow monkeys on Mount Ainslie, but the season really is changing. Wattle...
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Moore / Simon gives the Libs something to smile about
JEREMY Hanson must be smiling. The Opposition Leader is aware that Chief Minister, Andrew Barr, is “the last man standing” following the announcement from Simon Corbell that he will not run at the next...
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Seeing the ‘Big Picture’ – Roberts blockbuster for the NGA
IN announcing a radical departure of the National Gallery of Australia’s usual approach to summer-time blockbusters, a major show of works by Australian artist Tom Roberts, its director, Gerard...
View ArticleUpgrade complete at Tuggeranong Town Park
SHANE Rattenbury has announced the completion of works to upgrade Tuggeranong Town Park. “The $870,000 upgrade has improved the amenity, accessibility and safety of this much loved and popular park on...
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Community grants up for grabs in Queanbeyan
QUEANBEYAN Mayor Tim Overall says community groups have been invited to apply for a Community Project Grant through the Southern Phone Grant Scheme. The total grant funding available to the Queanbeyan...
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Photography project highlights ‘painful’ hidden illness
CANBERRA photographer Margaret Kalms is embarking on an unusual project to highlight a common but rarely-discussed illness, Endometriosis. One year after the launch of the Art Photography Project,...
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Another year for Archer with OzCo
FORMER creative director for the Centenary of Canberra, Robyn Archer, is everywhere, it seems. Robyn Archer Hot on news of the Latin American Film Festival opening last night that she is now a member...
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A Chiefly launch for the Big Boys Toys expo
ANDREW Barr has jumped aboard a light aircraft; with fire engines, the 28 metre Shannons Super Rig, a hot rod, electric bikes, race and rally cars and Go Karts assembled, as the back drop to officially...
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Shane walks an electoral tightrope over Lyneham Oval
SHANE Rattenbury has encouraged Lyneham residents to provide their feedback on a proposal for new sporting facilities on land at the Lyneham Neighbourhood Oval. “Since the initial Development...
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Singapore gift inspired by Aussie landscape
A SCULPTURE inspired by the Australian landscape and the imagery of forest life has been gifted by the Government and people of Singapore to the Australian Parliament. l. The Speaker of the House of...
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Arts in Canberra this weekend
IT’S SCIENCE WEEK and this Sunday 23 August 4pm Griffyn Ensemble director, Michael Sollis, will be joined by astronomer Fred Watson and the Canberra Mandolin Orchestra in “The Sound of Light – an aural...
View ArticleTidbinbilla triumphs in their big lift
TIDBINBILLA has been literally all atwitter posting a river of photographs from the installation of their newest big dish for communicating with distant space missions. #biglift Tweets After a setback...
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Show and snow at Jindy last weekend
THE Jindabyne tourism community has good reason to boast about its inaugural ‘SNOWTUNES’ music event last weekend. Kronic at Jindy With artists like Hermitude, TKAY MAIDZA, Allday, Slumberjack, Kronic,...
View Article‘Happiness, health and personal growth’ in winning song
CANBERRA producers, Daniel and Josh Pinkerton, have won the chance to feature in the national ‘Mind Body Business’ advertising campaign. Singer Mike Lang and the Pinkerton brothers collaborated to...
View ArticleAbortion protest meets the homeless. Friday morning in Canberra
CANBERRA’S weekly prayer vigil / protest / picket outside the Marie Stopes clinic on Alinga Street had an intriguing backdrop of a homeless man sleeping rough with the shopping trolley containing his...
View ArticleWanniassa Red Rooster robbed at gunpoint
ACT Policing Criminal Investigation detectives are investigating an aggravated robbery that occurred in Wanniassa yesterday evening (Thursday, 20 August 2015). Around 8.10pm three men entered Red...
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Grattan on Friday / People on tenterhooks in a government that’s waiting …...
Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra It’s never helpful for a government to become the object of ridicule, so when the Coalition’s speaking notes were leaked for a second day running it was...
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Vale Kim Nelson
RESIDENTS and art lovers in Yass are preparing to say farewell to one of their favourite sons, following the unexpected death of artist Kim Nelson late last week. Nelson sketching plein air Although...
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