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Mugging a Big Issue seller. How low can you go?
ACT Policing is seeking witnesses to a robbery which occurred in Jamison on Sunday (May 4). Between 10am-2pm a man, who suffers from a mental disability, was selling copies of ‘The Big Issue’ adjacent...
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IKEA confirmed for Canberra
IT has been long suspected but now confirmed, the Swedish kings of flatpack furniture are opening a Canberra store near the airport. A gala ceremony is planned for Thursday May 8 to celebrate the...
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Lance the giant cockroach, a new pet at Questacon
QUESTACON are playing host to a new visitor, Lance the Giant Burrowing Cockroach. He’s a native Australian bush cockroach, and his kind hail from North Queensland. They are the heaviest cockroach...
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Cheap lunches. Beach Burrito Company
THE Beach Burrito Company is a relatively new player on City Walk where The Australian pub briefly dwelt. With the word “CANTINA” writ large on the exterior its fast coming to be known just as “The...
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Because homeless people need to charge their phones, too
LITTLE black bollards dot Canberra’s urban spaces. Designed to be inconspicuous, they serve TAMS’ maintenance personnel needing power for work tools. Unless you’ve got nowhere better to go and need to...
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McLean dances his way to LA
TUGGERANONG Arts Centre’s ‘Fresh Funk’ tutor David McLean has won an online competition that will take him to Los Angeles to join the crew of one of the world’s leading urban choreographers, Rob Rich....
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Queanbeyan Council raffling two tonnes of firewood!
QUEANBEYAN Council is running courses on how to get the best from a wood fired heater. They’re intended to give the community an opportunity to see live demonstrations from a member of the Australian...
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Cartoon: Dose of Dorin
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Gardening: The colourful ‘mums of autumn
CHRYSANTHEMUMS are always synonymous with Mother’s Day and autumn colour in the garden. Chrysanthemums… easy to grow and can be divided into dozens of extra plants in late winter/spring for filling...
View ArticleCheap lunches. Wok it Up in Braddon
BRADDON’S Wok it Up was suggested to us by reliable “CityNews” reader Chris for the cheap lunches series. It’s nestled just next to Debacle on Lonsdale Street and does a roaring trade of well dressed...
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Cafe Fountaine singing with the choir invisible
WHEN all the world was younger, and your correspondent was catching buses to get home to Dickson from Radford, stopping in at the then newly opened Cafe Fountaine overlooking City Walk seemed like the...
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Heart of a Dog at The Street Theatre, with preview audio
“Citynews” has been talking to local composer Marc Robertson, who’s written an industrial rock-style score for writer Jim McGrath’s new show, “Heart of a Dog”, based on the satirical Russian novella...
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Dining: Little Remedy for ‘off’ day on the foreshore
LIKE people, cafes and restaurants have good days and bad days. A friend and I must have hit Remedy by Lonsdale Street Roasters on a day when things weren’t going as well as staff would have liked. It...
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New musical, with a suburban twist
THE stage is well and truly set for the world premiere tomorrow night of “Winging My Way to the Top,” a new Australian musical comedy running at the Queanbeyan Performing Arts Centre until May 17. The...
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Trouble at the Majura Parkway
TERRITORY and Municipal Services have given notice that the vast Majura Parkway construction project has lost its earthworks contractor. “The ACT Government has been advised by Fulton Hogan, lead...
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Intersection of Melrose and Eggleston to be upgraded
SHANE Rattenbury has announced the start of works to put traffic lights at the intersection of Melrose Drive and Eggleston Crescent. “The intersection was changed in 2012, preventing a right hand turn...
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Evatt and Florey shop upgrade plans out for consultation
SHANE Rattenbury has announced the public consultation phase of upgrade planning for Evatt and Florey. “Design ideas for Evatt shops include new pavement surfacing to improve accessibility and...
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Why buy Fairtrade? Ask a farmer from Ghana
GHANAIAN cocoa farmer Esther Mintah Ephraim had a lot of good things to say about Fairtrade when she spoke at the Legislative Assembly reception room this afternoon. Lindsay & Edmunds director...
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Beekeeping courses, for your backyard
THE Canberra Environment Centre is running a course on backyard beekeeping on June 14. “What a great way to spend a sunny Sunday with your family, extracting honey from beehives in your own backyard,”...
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New judicial appointments
SIMON Corbell has announced a slew of appointments to the ACT’s benches. Stephen Walmsley, Linda Ashford, Dennis Cowdroy and David Robinson have been appointed as acting judges to the ACT Supreme...
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