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Ambassador to open Red Cross art show
Selected artists for the “The Centenary Red Cross Art Show” at Albert Hall.SWISS ambassador Marcel Stutz will open the “The Centenary Red Cross Art Show” at Albert Hall, 7pm, on March 14. Long-time...
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Dining: A room full of beans
THERE’S usually a great story behind a name and The Cupping Room is no exception. No, it’s not the cupping of the massage-therapy type. It’s the process coffee roasters use to judge coffees. With its...
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VIPs wanted: genuine local humans need apply!
Visit Canberra director Ian Hill… “It’s really about authentic experiences being shared through a group of people with significant social media reach.” Photo by Gary SchaferIAN Hill’s original new...
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Seven Days: Welcome to liveable, unaffordable Canberra
Robert MacklinSOMETIMES it’s hard to separate news from theatre, and never more so than this past week in Canberra. Take the big story of the week: the revelation that ours is the most “liveable”...
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Moore: Community deserves a sporting chance
Michael MooreGOVERNMENT sponsorship of sport is good public policy. Academic literature is full of evidence about the benefits of children who grow up involved with sport. However, in the ACT recent...
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Canberra Confidential: Coffee’s ‘sniffy’ side
“SNIFF and slurp”, that’s snapper Gary Schafer’s fond interpretation of Cupping Room manager Jack Scheeren’s approach to encouraging the appreciation of coffee by educating customers through “cupping”...
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Local filmmakers bring back Chinese bushranger
Producer Cindy Jia Li… worked with some of the top film people in China.AWARD-winning author and screenwriter, Robert Macklin, and former Shanghai producer, Cindy Jia Li, are planning a film about...
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Letters: Praise Shane, not ridicule him
THE ACT Greens’ Shane Rattenbury deserves to be congratulated, rather than ridiculed by Mark Parton (“St Shane of the imaginary animals”, CN March 6). The banning of cage-egg production and sow stalls...
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Canberra draws two million tourists
AS Visit Canberra launches its new “101 Humans” tourism campaign today, the latest national survey from Tourism Research Australia reveals a 5 per cent upswing in overnight visitors to the ACT over the...
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Cancer researcher named Citizen of the Year
CANCER researcher Professor Chris Parish was named Canberrra Citizen of the Year in a ceremony today. Prof Chris Parish, 2014 Canberra Citizen of the Year.Prof Parish is Head of the Cancer and Vascular...
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What motivates the amazing Alicia?
THE “entitlement generation” has become a common catchphrase; it is even more widely used to describe young sportspeople. There is a perception that sportspeople believe they are entitled to certain...
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Wind to provide a quarter of ACT power
WIND power will become the centrepiece of the ACT Government’s plan to meet its bold renewable energy target of 90 per cent by 2020. Simon CorbellLater this year the Government plans to run a reverse...
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Hug a tree…and 99 more things to do
“CITYNEWS” has noticed how accustomed Canberrans have become in the past year to counting things in the hundreds – could it be something to do with the Centenary? Now the Australian National Botanic...
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Free apps offer insight into divorce
FAMILY law specialists Watts McCray have developed two free tablet apps offering advice on divorce, de-facto relationships, child support, child custody, property settlement, pre-nup or de facto...
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Fire breaks out after intruders break-in
INTRUDERS broke in to Brierly’s Cafe in Weston Creek early this morning, shortly before a fire broke out in the kitchen, causing serious damage. Firefighters arrived on the scene just before 1am,...
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FROM this week, the city’s leading social reporter LYN MILLS joins the “CityNews” team of respected and experienced writers and photographers. And also from this edition, acclaimed author and...
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At Capital Chemist Centenary College Scholarships, ANU
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What’s on in the arts this weekend
AFTER SELL-OUT SEASONS at the Melbourne and Sydney Fringe Festivals, Brisbane Festival and Theatreworks St Kilda, the award-winning Australian theatre production, “Cut Snake”, will play at Gorman Arts...
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Canberra gets Australia’s biggest free Wi-Fi network
CANBERRA is to have the largest free public Wi-Fi network in Australia as part of the Digital Canberra Action Plan, launched today by Chief Minister Katy Gallagher at the Canberra Business Council’s...
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Ferocious flu hits early
INFLUENZA has hit earlier than usual this year with almost four times as many people across Australia getting the flu in January and February and ACT Medicare Local is urging Canberrans to get...
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