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Joy Burch announces NDIS transition
MINISTER for Disability Joy Burch says older Canberrans, young children and school leavers will be among the first to transition to the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) when it commences in...
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ANU students maintaining the rage
MORE than 100 ANU Students continued their creative campaign against university decision-makers who support the Federal Government’s proposal to cut university funding, increase HECS-HELP interest...
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14 in the running for the ACT’s indigenous elected body
ACT Electoral Commissioner Phil Green has announced the 14 candidates for seven positions on the ACT’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Elected Body. Mr Rod Little, Chair ACT Aboriginal and Torres...
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Shane hikes the penalties for dog attacks
SHANE Rattenbury has introduced a new Bill into the Assembly to increase the penalty for dog attacks. “Under current legislation, the maximum penalties for a dog harassment incident and an attack...
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Lego Queen and other arts around Canberra this long weekend
THE Museum of Australian democracy in old Parliament house is celebrating the Queen’s Birthday public holiday with a day of ‘royal’ activities. Using over 92,000 LEGO® bricks, a 3m x 2m mosaic of Queen...
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Hanson budget response: “pet projects that Canberrans do not want and cannot...
LIBERAL Leader Jeremy Hanson is giving his budget reply at 3pm today but has sent forth his thoughts already. “Tuesday’s budget was a continuation of the failures dished out over the past 13 long...
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Cheap lunches. Oscar’s on City Walk
SINCE I started this series I’ve been under considerable and concerted pressure in the “CityNews” offices to review Oscar’s CBD. Succumbing to this multi-pronged badgering I popped in there today. It...
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Barr promises red tape reductions for the Community Sector
Andrew Barr ANDREW Barr has announced efforts to make life easier for government funded community groups. “From 1 July 2014 the Community Services Directorate (CSD) will simplify relationship...
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Lower speed limits recommended to protect vulnerable road users
SHANE Rattenbury has welcomed the release of an Assembly Committee Report on ‘vulnerable road users’, such as pedestrians, cyclists, and motorcycle riders. Mr Rattenbury moved an Assembly resolution...
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Costumes designed to be ‘lived and breathed on stage’
THE National Gallery of Australia’s big “Ballets Russes: the art of costume” is off to at the National Art Center, Tokyo, opening on June 18, running until September. © Natalia Goncharova, Costume for...
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Anyone fancy a Subway “instillation”?
“LOVE-TIME” on East Row has gone the way of all flesh and a Subway seems inevitable for Bailey’s Corner, but the Development Application Notice retains the capacity to intrigue. The notice warns of...
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Simon says plastic bag ban a roaring success, Shane wants them composting
SIMON Corbell has announced great success in his war upon plastic bags. “The ACT’s plastic shopping bags ban has resulted in a 36% decrease in the amount of plastic bags sent to landfill and is now...
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Review: ‘Edge of Tomorrow’ (M) * and a half
TO beget this noisy farrago for lovers of mindless futurist military violence, “Groundhog Day” (1993) copulates with just about every aliens-from-a-hostile-planet-coming-to-take-over-the-earth movie...
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Review: ‘The Fault In Our Stars’ (M) *** and a half
WATCHING Josh Boone’s film among mostly adolescent or slightly older women, about teenagers finding love under the dark cloud of cancer, pleased me because of its scope for observing their collective...
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Review: ‘Grace of Monaco’ (PG) **
I’VE yet to see or hear a flattering word about Olivier Dahan’s treatment of writer/producer Arash Amel’s recounting of the 1962/63 contretemps that threatened to terminate Monaco’s independence when...
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Lyn Mills’ social event of the week / Nancy Sever Gallery opening, Kingston
NANCY Sever was, for many years, the director of the Drill Hall Gallery. Ostensibly she retired, but the smell of the paint and love of the show was still in her soul and, with encouragement from many...
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Police want you to be snow safe (if you can find snow)
ACT Policing in co-operation with NSW Police will conduct high-visibility patrols on major arterial roads in and out of Canberra as part of Operation Snow Safe this winter. As motorists travel to and...
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Socials: At National Day of Ethiopia reception, Hellenic Club
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Cheap lunches. The Gozleme Cafe on London Circuit
Across the road from the police station the Gozleme Cafe is a new arrival on London Circuit but doing a roaring trade. $8 gets you a gozleme in a choice of flavours on a big wooden paddle. I went for...
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A unicycle ride around Australia brings $200,000 for local cancer support
CHRIS Bourke has taken receipt of a giant novelty cheque for the Canberra & Eden Monaro Cancer Support Group thanks to the actor Samuel Johnson and his 15478km fundraising unicycle ride around...
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