Video / Canberra police meet the Comancheros
ACT Policing has posted video of their reception for the Comancheros motorcycle gang which made a foray into Canberra yesterday. ACT Policing has wrapped up its monitoring of the Comancheros, ensuring...
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Breaching bail at 4am in a stolen Corolla
ACT Policing arrested a 16-year-old boy from Canberra’s north after a short pursuit which ended in Russell just before 4am today (Sunday, September 7). Woden Patrol General Duties police were...
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Quality rules over quantity in this Monday’s parking inspection
Just the one entry this week to our annals of poorly parked cars in Canberra. But what an entry it is! Shane spotted this Bentley near the Civic GPO. One supposes that those who can afford Bentleys...
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Majura road burn
A private landholder will conduct a hazard reduction burn today at the property “Avonley”, Majura Road, Majura. Temporary smoke cover may occur. The Health Directorate advises that people with asthma,...
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Shopping trolleys roaming free around the Legislative Assembly
Given the enthusiasm with which the Legislative Assembly passes laws forbidding shopping trolley abandonment it is with some joy I take a weekly walk around the seat of Government and photograph the...
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A handy infographic for a Belconnen stabbing case
The judgment of Chief Justice Murrell in the matter of R v Weaver is an interesting read. Jamie Weaver is found guilty of pocketing the knife used by Miroslav Jovanovic to stab Peter Manna in the...
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For connoisseurs: “Sweet Charity” coming to town
CANBERRA Theatre staff are in a state of excitement with news that a triple Helpmann Award Winning production of the musical “Sweet Charity” is coming in February next year, proclaiming “the return of...
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Novelist talks about ‘incendiary’ book
WEST Australian author Peter Docker is in town tonight promoting his controversial new novel “Sweet One”. Starting with real-life events, the deaths in custody of Aboriginal men in Queensland and WA,...
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Fire in the mental health unit
FIREFIGHTERS are currently on scene at The Canberra Hospital following a small fire in the Adult Mental Health Unit, Building 25, Dann Close, Garran. Fire has been extinguished. Approximately 60...
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Local poets at The Gods tomorrow
WELL-known poets Michael Thorley, Penelope Layland and Alan Gould will feature at tomorrow night’s “Poetry at The Gods”. Alan Gould Gould’s early poems tracked the interplay of fate and free will. In...
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Arts Residencies to foster artistic innovation
JOY Burch has announced the six successful organisations that will each receive $10,000 to support their artists-in-residence programs, aimed at attracting national and international artists to...
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Arson attack at Daramalan
ACT Policing is appealing for witnesses after a burglary at Daramalan College in Dickson on the weekend. About 8.50pm on Saturday (6 September) an unknown number of offenders gained entry into the...
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Eight characters in search of an author – new ImproACT show
WHEN “CityNews” was invited by Impro ACT’s artistic director, Nick Byrne, to attend a rehearsal of its newest project last night, this writer got more than she bargained for. Nick Byrne interrogates a...
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Macklin / Faulks fields the power of tourism
FULL marks to Business Council chief Chris Faulks for taking up the cudgels wielded by Federal Labor frontbencher Anthony Albanese to get the Feds involved in promoting Canberra tourism. And she’s...
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Cartoon / Dose of Dorin
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View ArticleLetter / Inconvenient evidence flaws argument
I WRITE in response to the opinion piece by Michael Moore (“Smoking out Big Tobacco’s toadies”, CN, September 3), which makes inaccurate and defamatory claims about our Association and seeks to...
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Intelledox gives $1 million of their own software to ANU
ACT Chief Minister Katy Gallagher has announced a $1 million philanthropic donation by Intelledox co-founders Michelle Melbourne and Phillip Williamson to the Australian National University....
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Arts / Boyd in agony and ecstacy
CURATOR Deborah Hart has been grappling with “agony and ecstasy” for the past three years putting together a show about one of Australia’s greatest painters. Dr Hart, senior curator of Australian...
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Young Korean found dead in a Belconnen pond
ACT Policing’s Criminal Investigations detectives are seeking the assistance of witnesses who could help in determining how a young Korean national was found deceased in a pond near his Belconnen...
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Win a ‘Wild Kingdom, the Great British Year’ DVD
(14.15) Win the BBC's latest 'Wild Kingdom' DVD What's to be won?“CityNews” has five copies of the BBC's latest DVD release, “Wild Kingdom, the Great British Year” to be won. For the first time, the...
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