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Socials: At Brumbies State of the Union lunch, QT Canberra
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Socials: At Conservation Council’s World Environment Day Dinner
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Calling all brilliant young musicians
IT’S that time of the year when talented and aspiring young musicians are invited to apply for the 2015 programs offered by the Australian Youth Orchestra. Image: Alexander Chiu, violin, Annabelle...
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Cheap lunches. Croissant D’or in the interchange
IN the burned out wreckage that continues to be the very heart of Civic following the Sydney Building fire there is at least a new sign of life. Croissant D’or has emerged from liquidation via a...
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Budget14: Build now, pay later
WHY wait when you can have your tramline to Gungahlin and your epic lakeside gentrification project so much sooner on a finance plan? As expected, the 2014-15 ACT Budget is all about increased...
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Budget14: Pictures from the lockup
STEPHEN Easton was in the budget lockup for “CityNews” and captured the fevered feel of the caged media reptiles and their handlers. The post Budget14: Pictures from the lockup appeared first on...
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Budget14: What is right? What is left
WHAT a contrast? Borrow and spend! The ACT budget, reeling from attacks and cost shifting by the federal government, has taken a pragmatic approach to protect Canberrans. The holy grail of a budget...
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Budget14: Streetlights for sale?
WHO will buy the street lights? They are up for sale and the Treasurer tells us that this is the only jurisdiction that owns its streetlight infrastructure. It will be another two years before they...
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Half of Canberrans vitamin D deficient over winter
EARLIER this year, the Australian Bureau of Statistics released the most accurate estimate of vitamin D levels in the Australian population, which showed that nearly one in four Australians are...
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BUDGET14: Reactions to the ACT Budget
AS reactions come in to today’s budget we’ll be publishing them below in the order they have arrived. First in was the Greens’ Shane Rattenbury the approval of whom should not be surprising as he’s in...
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Budget14: Ups and downs of life in the capital
AS usual the Budget papers shed some light on exactly where the ACT Government will take more money out of individual budgets from July 1 in order to shore up its own. Of course indexation always...
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Fugitive collared in Bruce bushland
A 21-year-old Holt man sought by ACT Policing was arrested in bushland near Bruce late this afternoon (Tuesday June 3). The man, who was identified as being the subject of two outstanding arrest...
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Canberra Confidential
Throwing in the Towell “CANBERRA Times” reporter Noel Towell got an uncomfortable mention in a Federal Estimates hearing last week when Labor Senator Kim Carr questioned Australian Customs CEO Michael...
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Rewards loom for a likely murderer
Robert Macklin SO let me get this straight: Judge Brian Martin is “fairly certain that [Eastman] is guilty of the murder”. He’s clearly unbalanced. He has been in jail for 19 years without meaningful...
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Triangle parking, just suck it up!
Mark Parton WORKERS in the parliamentary triangle breathed a sigh of relief with news that their impending date with parking police destiny had been delayed. P-Day had been set down for July 1, but the...
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Why we must bear witness to abuse
“The human eye is a wonderful device. With a little effort, it can fail to see even the most glaring injustice.” – Richard K Morgan THE Royal Commission into Child Abuse is coming to Canberra to rake...
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Restaurant Review: Temporada. At home, in all seasons
TEMPORADA means “seasonal” and the team in the kitchen at a new eatery by the same name, tucked away in a somewhat unlikely spot on Moore Street, is about celebrating the wonders of spring, summer,...
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Arts in the City. Melinda’s show will be, will be
Melinda Schneider… bringing “Doris” to town. “QUE Sera, Sera”, “Everybody Loves a Lover” and “Secret Love” – they’re all songs by Doris Day, whose 90th birthday this year is being marked by artist...
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Imagination in two exhibitions at Craft ACT
IT’S been a big week for Craft ACT with the opening of two quite different exhibitions at Craft ACT: Craft and Design Centre. Michael Brennand-Wood, Namadgi Nation – Expecting To Fly, 2014 photo...
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There’s plenty to hate about Harry
WAS Henry V the ideal king? Handsome, eloquent, steel-nerved and a military strategist still held in awe, he seems to be presented by Shakespeare as close to the perfect man. Or not, as actor Eloise...
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