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Congratulations to the 2014 ACT Public Education Excellence Awards winners
JOY Burch has announced 2014’s top public educators. “The Public Education Excellence Awards were introduced in 2010 to recognise and celebrate outstanding achievement in public education in the ACT,”...
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Black Opal Stakes cracks group racing
CANBERRA Racing Club is celebrating the upgrade of the Seppelt Black Opal Stakes from a Listed race to Group 3 status by the Australian Racing Board. “The upgrade of the Black Opal to Group Three...
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Mysterious graffiti strikes the ACT Memorial
THE ACT Memorial on Ainslie Avenue appears to have fallen victim to a very neat series of stencil graffiti. Emailing the image to our Tokyo Bureau elicited this curious response to the question of what...
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Review / ‘Night Moves’ (M) ***
MOTIVATED by confused environmental conscience, market-garden labourer Josh (Jesse Eisenberg), rich kid Dena (Dakota Fanning) and layabout Harmon (Peter Sarsgaard) are planning to make a significant...
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Canberra boffins take out four of the 15 Eureka Prizes.
ACT scientists had reason to celebrate this week, taking out four of the 15 prizes awarded for outstanding Australian science. The Australian Museum Eureka Prizes are the country’s most comprehensive...
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Review / ‘The Giver’ (M) *** and a half
THE progenitor of Phillip Noyce’s film is a novel by Lois Lowry set in a world that might be the mirror image of the one that George Orwell envisaged in “1984”. Jonas (Brendan Thwaites) is the only...
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Review / ‘Tarzan’ (PG) ** and a half
JOSEF Stalin reportedly once said that Edgar Rice Burroughs was his favourite author. Burroughs’s eponymous hero of the African jungle has been around on paper since 1912 and in cinemas since 1918. He...
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Floriade launched. Gates swing open tomorrow
JOY Burch has officially launched Floriade 2014, which begins in Commonwealth Park tomorrow. Minister Burch was joined at the launch by journalist and gardening author Indira Naidoo, who will run...
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Photo competition to celebrate 25 years of Parkcare and Landcare in the ACT
Canberra photographers are invited to enter a photo competition celebrating 25 years of ParkCare and Landcare, capturing what they love about Canberra’s parks and reserves. The photo competition, run...
View ArticleJust what do they do down at Lower Molonglo?
ACTEW Water have kindly published a video showing off what they get up to at their Lower Molonglo facility. A closer look at Canberra’s Sewerage Treatment Plant, the largest inland facility of its...
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ACT Sports Hall of Fame re-opens
SHANE Rattenbury has re-opened the ACT Sports Hall of Fame in its new home at the University of Canberra Sports Commons. “Many of the names and faces central to the history of sport in Canberra are...
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Socials / At the National Golden Gavel Competition Finals, Parliament House
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Seventh time dui
A 42-year-old Lyons man has been caught drink-driving for the seventh time. Around 1.20am this morning (Saturday, 13 September), the man was observed almost colliding with a parked vehicle in...
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Realm, East, and QT win national hotel awards
CANBERRA’S best hotels and venues were honoured with national accolades at the Australian Hotels Association (AHA) National Awards for Excellence last night. Hotel Realm, East Hotel and Lucky’s at QT...
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Gardening / Luscious berry time is back
Raised veggie beds are the answer.THERE’S nothing compares with fresh, lush raspberries straight from the bush… and, as with all berries, they are so easy to grow. Stop raspberries suckering with a pot...
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‘Pixie’ lives again in exhibition
PIXIE O’Harris, who died in 1991, was one of the most loved authors and illustrators of fantasy in Australia in the early part of the twentieth century. O’Harris illustrated more than 40 fairy books,...
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‘Fame’ hits the stage in Gungahlin
GUNGAHLIN College’s second major musical production and follows highly successful short seasons of “Grease” in 2012 and “Romeo and Juliet” in 2013. Yes, it’s that school-age showstopper, “Fame” the...
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A memorial for your pets now departed launched at Floriade
RSPCA ACT CEO Tammy Ven Dange has unveiled the Pet Memorial Tree display at Floriade. The tree serves as a reminder of those pets that have passed on and the wonderful impact our pets have on our...
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Business and Government come together for a triathlon
In 1776 father of modern economics Adam Smith noted in “The Wealth of Nations” that: “People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a...
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ANU the best university in Australia and 25th in the world according to QS...
THE QS World University Rankings for 2014/15 are out and our own Australian National University can bask in 25th place, sandwiched between the Parisienne Ecole normale supérieure and North Carolina’s...
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