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Joss Construction gets the nod to build Coombs Primary
Joy Burch says Joss Construction has won the contract for the construction of the new $47 million Coombs Primary School. Work is expected to start next month, with the school to be ready for the 2016...
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Video / Ben Roberts-Smith portraits at the War Memorial
THE War Memorial have added YouTube video from the unveiling of portraits depicting Victoria Cross winner Ben Roberts-Smith. Two portraits of Victoria Cross recipient Corporal Ben Roberts-Smith VC MG...
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Wartime leadership on show in Menzies exhibition at Old Parliament House
IF the Museum of Australian Democracy’s new exhibition, “Menzies: By John Howard” curated, “however tenuously” as the curator himself put it, by former Prime Minister John Howard, serves to demonstrate...
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Health grant recipients announced
THE ACT’s Chief Health Officer Dr Andrew Pengilley has announced six successful Health Promotion Innovation Fund grant applicants, who will receive up to $15,000 for their innovative health promotion...
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Royalla’s solar farm officially opened
SIMON Corbell has joined the the Spanish Minister for Foreign Affairs to open the Royalla Solar Farm today. “At 20MW the Royalla solar farm has twice the capacity of the Greenough River project in...
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OAC sells out of the Canberra childcare market
CHILDCARE provider, Only About Children (Oac) has announced the sale of its three Canberra centres to publicly listed company Affinity Education Group, effective August 29. Oac’s Fraser Cleghorn says...
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It’s Australian National Flag day!
THIS lunch time your correspondent was somewhat surprised to see the Australian National Flag flying on City Hill rather than the more usual flag of the ACT. Asking around the local Minister’s offices...
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Sequeira leaves M16 after two weeks
IN what must be the shortest reign ever as a director in the constantly changing Canberra arts scene, David Sequeira is moving on from the directorship of M16 Artspace in Griffith to take a job in...
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Bowles and Moraitis take over at Health and Attorney-Generals
PRIME Minister Tony Abbott has announced new appointments in the high flying world of Departmental Secretaries. Mr Martin Bowles PSM will be Secretary of the Department of Health for five years from...
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Queanbeyan City Council seeks help with their rates and cinema issues
QUEANBEYAN City Council is seeking expressions of interest for two recently-established advisory committees. At Council’s July meeting it resolved to form a Cinema Project Advisory Group, while at the...
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Rabbit and hare control at Mulligans Flat
MULLIGANS Flat Woodland Sanctuary will experience temporary closures as part of the program to control populations of rabbits and hares this Spring. Though foxes and cats have been removed as a result...
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The Gallery defends itself in the case of the stolen Shiva
The National Gallery has marked the occasion of Prime Minister Abbott returning their stolen sculpture of Shiva to India by explaining the steps they took to try and avoid the mess they’ve ended up...
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Queanbeyan supplementary rates remaining on hold for some time
FOLLOWING his meeting with the NSW Minister for Local Government Paul Toole, Queanbeyan Mayor Tim Overall says the dialogue over supplementary retrospective rates notices was positive. “The purpose of...
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Stroke fundraising, a long walk and a festival
CANBERRA woman, Beth Nassar, is planning to walk approximately 800kms in France and Spain following the Camino Pilgrimage trail, Camino Frances, to honour her father, Eric Pearsall, and to raise funds...
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Review / ‘Into the Storm’ (M) *
STEVEN Quayle’s second feature (in 2011, I gave half a star to his first, “Final Destination”) “Into the Storm” cost $US50million and Americans have already paid twice that to see it. Others have...
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Socials / At Women in Racing charity lunch, Hellenic Club, Woden
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Review / ‘Boyhood’ (M) *** and a half
RICHARD Linklater’s cinematic observation of Mason (Ellar Coltrane) between ages six and 18 has garnered praise for its content and admiration for how cast and crew assembled one week in each of 12...
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Review / ‘Bethlehem’ (M) *** and a half
IN writer/director Yuval Adler’s feature debut, Israeli secret-service officer Razi (Tsahir Halevi) is running a mole in an extremist group – Hamas, Palestinians, whatever; the film from its outset...
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Socials / At the Allan Key Sportslovers’ Lunch, Brassey Hotel, Barton
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Merry-Go-Round delayed!
Word has come from the Economic Development Directorate that the re-opening of City Walk’s Merry-Go-Round has been delayed and it is now expected to re-open on Monday September 15. “Unfortunately,...
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