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Joy to the world: Time for a repaint?
WHAT is it about Joy Burch and Twitter? Recently the ACT Education Minister controversially retweeted an obscene observation critical of Federal Education Minister Christopher Pyne that would make a...
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A chance to ethically dispose of your e-waste piles
CANBERRA residents and businesses will be able to dispose of their unwanted old TVs, computers and printers at a free one-day drop-off-e-waste recycling service organised by TechCollect on Saturday...
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Consultation on bushfire management
THE ACT Emergency Services Agency invites the Canberra Community to attend a community consultation about the planned management of bushfire risk in the ACT, as part of the review of the Strategic...
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Massive expansion of disability services in Canberra
KATY Gallagher and Joy Burch have courageously announced an expansion of the ACT’s programs under the National Disability Insurance Scheme despite the looming possibility of funding cuts in the...
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Visit Canberra unleashes a new website
CANBERRA’s tourism industry has received a boost with the launch of a new, very beautiful and mobile device friendly website www.visitcanberra.com.au. VisitCanberra’s Director Ian Hill said the new...
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Coro calls for fine tenors and basses
WHEN “Citynews” music reviewer Clinton White recently wrote of the vocal ensemble, Coro, that it had demonstrated “beautifully balanced vocal sound with exquisite expression and tone,” it was no...
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Dalman holds the mirror up to Australian dance
IT’S not always easy being an artist, as Elizabeth Cameron Dalman, often dubbed “the mother of contemporary dance in Australia”, can tell you. “Mirror Image – reflections on people and land” is a new...
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Fatal shark attack on South Coast
TATHRA woman Christine Armstrong has reportedly been killed by a shark on the NSW South Coast after she became separated from the ocean swimming group she was training with. NSW Police have issued a...
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Socials: At 10th Latin American Film Festival opening, National Gallery
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Shane welcomes the end of Japanese whaling
CANBERRA’S own rainbow warrior and Minister for Municipal Services Shane Rattenbury has welcomed the cancellation of the next Japanese whaling season following Australia’s victory in the International...
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Bona heads back to Sydney
LUKE Bona, the 2CC drive presenter, is leaving the station to present the overnight program on 2UE and breakfast newsreader Marcus Paul will take over the drive spot from April 14. Luke Bona… leaving...
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Pell was wrong to blame the lawyers, but they aren’t blameless
By Vivien Holmes, Australian National University WHEN counsel assisting the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sex Abuse put it to Cardinal George Pell last week that his lawyers...
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Review: ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’ (M) ****
INSPIRED by “The World of Yesterday”, the autobiographical memoir by Stefan Zweig (1881-1942), writer/director Wes Anderson brings his unique view of people and events to this combination of...
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Review: ‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’ (M) * and a half
THIS is the sequel that writers Christopher Markus and Steven McFeely warned in 2012 was coming down the Pike. A further sequel is promised for May 2016. Oh, my god! Even reviewers are permitted...
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In conversation: Dr Don Russell and Sue Regan, reflecting on his term as a...
ANU has added to YouTube 15 minutes of Dr Don Russell talking about his time in Canberra as Secretary of the Department of Innovation, Industry, Climate Change, Science, Research, and Tertiary...
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Cancer council chuggers hit Garema Place sporting little hats
THE charity panhandlers gracing Civic in the wet today were scraping credit card numbers on behalf of the Cancer Council. Usually the only way to tell these menaces to the commons apart is by the...
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Suspected Ikea site gets planning approval
SIMON Corbell has announced planning approval for a “bulky goods store” near Canberra Airport. This site and process has long been suspected to be Ikea’s much anticipated entry to the Canberra market....
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Planning approval to bulldoze the ABC flats
SIMON Corbell has announced planning approval to re-develop the eyesore flats bordering Civic along Cooyong Street. “A variation to the Territory Plan commenced today that will allow large scale...
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Royal family to be raffled off to Canberrans
Chief Minister Gallagher has announced a ballot process to select the lucky 250 Canberrans who will get to draw close to the royal presence when the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince George...
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Police video from this morning’s grow house bust
ACT Policing have released an intriguing video from their operation this morning with a brief note: “A successful joint operation with ACT Policing and the NSW Police Force has removed $2.5M worth of...
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