Don’t let the kids miss out on PlayFEST this year
THE ACT Playgroups Association will be celebrating Children’s Week by holding their 15th annual PlayFEST. They are inviting parents, carers and children under six to join them for the event. PlayFEST...
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‘Strong psychological intensity’ in digital portraits
THE National Portrait Gallery has gone for two prizes in this year’s Macquarie Digital Portraiture Awards, it has announced by the director of the Macquarie Group Collection, Helen Burton. Still from...
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Capel-Stanley wins writing prize
FAST-RISING Canberra art writer, Claire Capel-Stanley, is the winner of the Canberra Glassworks’ “New Glass 2015 Writing Competition”, it was announced last night. Claire Capel-Stanley last night...
View ArticleSpence 7 Eleven robbed with a hammer and a gun
ACT Policing Criminal Investigation detectives are investigating an aggravated robbery that occurred in Spence this morning (Saturday, 29 August 2015). Around 4.35am, a man using a hammer forced his...
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Socials / At the opening of the Arab Film Festival
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Socials / At the Law Society’s annual dinner, Barton
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Socials / At the Ribbons and Cranes Dinner, Southern Cross Club
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Review / Super cast makes most of living unhappily ever after
Sian Harrington as Little Red Riding Hood. Photo by Andrew FinchSTEPHEN Sondheim’s brilliant musical exploring beyond the “happily ever after” of favourite fairytale characters to uncover lives that...
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Moore / Periscope up, but no secrets to be seen
THE ACT Cabinet has announced that it will open the cabinet process by live streaming with the social media tool Periscope. It might be a “world first” to Periscope into cabinet as another consultation...
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Yarralumla breathes a sigh of relief as Government retreats
THE ACT Government has abandoned its widely unpopular redevelopment of the land around the Yarralumla Brickworks, replacing it with a more restrained plan that’s been welcomed cautiously by the...
View ArticleKung Foo for the elderly
SHANE Rattenbury has joined Grand Master Neal Hardy, President of Kung Fu Wushu ACT to launch the new ‘Overcoming Challenges Program’ for older adults and people with disabilities. “It was fantastic to...
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Limiting the hours of lotto ticket sales
JOY Burch has announced restrictions will be introduced on the hours that lottery products can be sold to avoid having them available in retail shops 24 hours a day. From Monday 7 September 2015, the...
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Property Council displeased by Northbourne Flats heritage decision
THE Property Council’s ACT Executive Director, Catherine Carter says the ACT Government’s back down on plans to redevelop the entire Northbourne Avenue public housing precinct may compromise amenity...
View ArticleGungahlin magpie cull
RANGERS have caught and euthanased seven magpies at the Yerrabi Pond picnic area due to the high number of aggressive magpies, and the nature of the area which is used by a high number of people....
View ArticleVideo / In Gungahlin the terrible drivers come to the police
THIS has been posted to the ACT Policing Facebook page: About 2.05pm this afternoon, the driver of a white Holden Commodore was attempting to turn the corner of Anthony Rolfe Avenue onto Gozzard...
View ArticleQuidditch championship in Canberra this weekend
IT may be a game out of the Harry Potter books (in which wizards riding broomsticks through the sky play it) but Quidditch is getting serious and the competition is coming to Canberra for the first...
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Kambah fatal collision
ACT Policing is investigating a three vehicle collision at the intersection of Drakeford Drive, Marconi Crescent and Boddington Crescent this evening (Friday, 4 September) in which a male driver has...
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Carter / Time to save the ‘ghost town’
Ghost town… Garema Place in Civic. Photo by John Griffiths“LACKING a heart and a soul”… “A mismatch of modern and dated poorly-maintained heritage buildings”… “A place with no oomph”. These are just...
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Review / Delicious comedy needs more pace
Abby and Martha Brewster, played by Lynne Seaman and Marian Fitzgerald.IN “Arsenic and Old Lace”, American playwright Joseph Kesselring has written a nearly-perfect black farce, replete with...
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Kambah fatal collision followed a police pursuit
ACT Policing investigators continue to investigate the circumstances surrounding the ACT’s ninth road fatality that occurred late yesterday on Drakeford Drive in Kambah. At approximately 5.45pm police...
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