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Gallagher’s cheque to rescue Jets
THE ACT Government has come to the rescue of the unlucky Gungahlin Jets Football Club with $40,000 to fix up their team shed, after it suffered two robberies last year and had $70,000 in federal...
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National Gallery director Radford to move on
THE director of the National Gallery of Australia, Ron Radford, will not seek reappointment when his contract expires in September this year. While this probability has been widely discussed in art...
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Drug squad swoops in Bruce
POLICE from the Drugs and Organised Crime team and the AFP’s Special Response Group swooped on a 33-year-old man and a 27-year-old woman yesterday evening and arrested them on drugs charges. With the...
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Michael Easson remains at helm of ACTEW
MICHAEL Easson will remain as chair of the ACTEW Corporation board for the next three years after acting in the position since July last year, when John Mackay stepped down in the wake of revelations...
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A week of break-ins and burglaries
POLICE have investigated 20 burglaries and 14 thefts from motor vehicles in Canberra in the first three days of this week. Between 8am and 10am Tuesday morning, police attended to reports of theft in...
View ArticleSurgery no longer needed for legal sex change
CHANGES to Births, Deaths and Marriages legislation going through the Legislative Assembly this afternoon will allow transgender people to legally change their sex without having gender reassignment...
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Canberra’s newest brothel targets soaring demand
A woman who claims Australia’s longest-running career as a madam will open a new brothel in Canberra next week because, she says, “demand for sex in the nation’s capital is outstripping supply”. West...
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Socials: At ‘Lumen’ exhibition opening, ANCA Gallery, Dickson
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Socials: At Greek National Day reception
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ACT speed cameras unreliable and ineffective
SPEED cameras in Canberra are unreliable and their effectiveness in reducing speeding is questionable, according to a report released this afternoon by auditor-general Dr Maxine Cooper. Dr Maxine...
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Socials: At the Canberra International Music Festival 2014 launch, Kingston
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This weekend in arts
CANBERRA Choral Society’s artistic director, Tobias Cole, just can’t get enough of local musicians and composers. Canberra Choral Society, photo Elizabeth HawkesCole is staging “Canberra Voices”, a...
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Socials: Event of the week – ‘ABC Showcase 2014′, Parliament House
IF there’s a Wiggle or a Banana in Pyjamas to be photographed with, pollies are quick to be front and centre, with the “just one for the kids” line as staffers manned the iPhones at the annual “ABC...
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Students build pop-up paper house
An unusual type of “house” has popped up almost overnight at CIT Reid. Part of the “paper house” at CIT Reid.The full-scale spaces within a house, which are completely made of paper, have been...
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Spotlight on Celeb portraitists
THE National Portrait Gallery has often flirted with glamour, fashion and celebrity in its photographic porter at exhibitions, but never quite so much as with one of its two new shows, “PROMO:...
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Review: ‘Cuban Fury’ (M) ** and a half
WITHOUT performances by Nick Frost as engineering draftsman Bruce, in his youth an aspiring dancer until a gang of bullies beat him up for being a sissy, and Chris O’Dowd as obnoxious Drew, a salesman...
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Fairfax reported to be sniffing around Allhomes
FAIRFAX Media, publisher of “The Canberra Times”, is understood to have “run a ruler” over local online property business Allhomes, according to a report in the Fairfax-owned “Australian Financial...
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Review: ‘Mr Morgan’s Last Love’ (M) ***
IT grieves me to report that while German writer/director Sandra Nettlebeck has given Michael Caine a sensitive character in a film about the vicissitudes of growing old, it is not his best...
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Review: ‘Wadjda’ (PG) *** and a half
BRAVO, Haifaa al-Mansour, Saudi-Arabian writer/director who learned her cinema craft at Sydney University. Without rancour or compromise, her feature writing and directing debut dispassionately and...
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‘Disarming intensity’ in winning portrait of cartoonist
THE $25,000 National Photographic Portrait Prize for 2014 has gone to Sydney photographer Andrew Cowen, it was announced this evening by National Portrait Gallery director Angus Trumble at gala event...
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