Illegal traps snare native wildlife
THE public is being urged to look out for illegal yabby traps in our waterways as they pose a major threat to native wildlife, including platypus and some endangered fish. “Last month two dead...
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Socials / At the opening of Janenne Eaton’s ‘Reef’ exhibition, Kingston
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Sod turned on EPIC student accommodation development
CONSTRUCTION will start soon on a student and tourist accommodation facility at Exhibition Park, following the Chief Minister’s turning the development’s first sod today. Chief Minister Andrew Barr....
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Lyn Mills’ social event of the week
GARRAN Medical Imaging has been open for a couple of months settling into the smart new premises in the medical centre that looks quite imposing and impressive in what is a suburban shopping centre....
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Arts / Ancient Greece to pop-up in Civic
There’s a new pop-up outdoor theatre venture in town, ACT Chief Minister Andrew Barr has announced today. “The Public Theatre” will see a two-week program of performance, music, spoken word and film...
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Socials / At the opening of the White Rabbit Cocktail Room, Civic
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Socials / At the Palliative Care ACT’s 30th anniversary dinner, Woden
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Arts / Dorothy and Goldilocks promise fun for kids
L-R Alyssa Anderson, Lachlan Anderson, Oliver Johnstone, Natalie Mitchell pic Jenny AndersonWE’RE IN the middle of school holidays and Canberra is alive with children’s plays.First up is Pied Piper...
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Fire crews battle O’Connor blaze
FIRE crews have extinguished a fire at a two-storey ACT Housing apartment on Berrigan Crescent, O’Connor. Firefighters attacked the fire from the front and rear of the property with both levels...
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Double demerits: Cops warn they’ll be out there
DOUBLE demerit points are in effect until midnight Monday. Double points will be enforced for speeding and seatbelt offences across the ACT and interstate. One additional demerit point will be...
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Review / ‘Macbeth’ (MA) ***
IN my late teens, I carried a spear in a Brisbane production of Shakespeare’s Scottish play. Within five years, the young men who played Macbeth and Macduff were both dead. Superstition is alive, well...
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Review / ‘The Intern’ (M) ***
FOR Robert De Niro, the role of 70-ish widower Ben Whittaker in writer/director Nancy Myers’ romantic comedy is a doddle. Most of his screen time requires him to do little more than dress stylishly,...
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Review / ‘The Martian’ (M) ***
ANDY Weir wrote a book. Drew Goddard adapted it into a screenplay for Ridley Scott to direct. Nothing in the credits for “The Martian” acknowledges Daniel Defoe who, in 1719, published the novel on...
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Cartoon / Dose of Dorin (one for the AFL)
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Water warning while Chifley Reservoir gets a clean
POSSIBLE water discolouration is being flagged for Weston, Waramanga, Holder, Wright, Coombs and Stirling when Icon Water begins a planned clean of Chifley reservoir from Tuesday until Thursday. The...
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Arts / Rep seeks to play, entertain and excel
ONE of Canberra REP’s fast-rising directors takes the lion’s share of the shows in the company’s 84th season, launched on the set of “Much Ado About Nothing” at Theatre 3. Jordan Best… directing a...
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Police seek witnesses to hit-and-run
POLICE are seeing witnesses to a hit-and-run collision between a vehicle and a pedestrian near the intersection of Barraclough Crescent and Ashley Drive, Monash, early on Friday morning. About 1.40am,...
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Review / Gripping performance by Austrian star
Maxi Blaha in “Soul of Fire”.BERTHA von Suttner was an Austrian pacifist and figurehead of a worldwide peace movement. She relentlessly fought nationalist fanaticism, aggressive militarism and...
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Police nab weapons in Red Hill raid
POLICE have seized weapons following a raid in Red Hill on Friday. Armed with a search warrant, police seized two replica double barrel shotguns, two replica handguns and a large, prohibited dagger....
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Socials / At the Stella Bella Little Stars Fairytale Ball, Albert Hall
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