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Dog attack penalties skyrocket
SHANE Rattenbury has announced the passage of legislation that will increase the penalty that can be imposed for dog attacks. “Under previous legislation, the maximum penalties for a dog harassment...
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Abbott has given his ministers straight ‘A’s – do they deserve it?
By Misty Adoniou, University of Canberra Tony Abbott has given his ministers their report cards for the year. Apparently they are all receiving As and A+s. That might mean they are very, very clever...
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James March was out on a suspended sentence when he committed a horrendous...
THE Supreme Court has published the sentencing of one James March for a late night burglary and prolonged sexual assault. Chief Justice Murrell has sentenced him to 7 years and 9 months’ imprisonment...
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Review / ‘Wish I Was Here’ (M) ***
IN his second film after “Garden State” (2004), director Zach Braff plays aspiring actor Aidan, upon whom life’s burdens, while individually relatively minor, are steadily piling up. The Jewish school...
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Review / ‘We Are The Best’ (MA) ****
IN Swedish filmmaker Moodysson’s dramatisation of a cartoon strip by his wife, schoolgirls Bobo and Klara, soon to start climbing puberty’s upward slope, want to become a punk band but neither has any...
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Review / ‘Sin City: A Dame To Kill For’ (MA) **
IN Robert Rodriguez’s violent, angry filming of Frank Miller’s cartoon strip fantasy views of the underbelly of American society, this city sleeps by day and wakes after sunset. Power, lust, greed,...
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Stirling drug house bust
ACT Policing has seized six cannabis plants following the execution of a warrant on a home in Stirling today (Friday September 19). About 9.10am, police executed a Drugs of Dependence Act (DODA)...
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This week in beer… The Beer Day Out is coming!
LOCK in the date. Beer Day Out returns to Canberra on Saturday, November 8 at its new location in “the former transport depot”, Wentworth Avenue, Kingston, e.g. the Bus Depot Markets to the rest of...
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Socials / Lyn Mills’ event of the week
IT’S time to throw off the black of winter and reach for the sherberts, cobalt, acid yellow, white and ubiquitous animal prints of summer. Well, that’s if you want to. The Canberra Centre has zoomed...
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Do It In A Dress – locals climb 21 of Canberra’s peaks for charity
IN order to raise funds and awareness for Girls’ education charity, One Girl, Canberra residents Anna Cook and Chrissie Erickson are heading up a series of walks to some of the region’s mountaintops...
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Ram-raider with molotov cocktail arrested
A MAN armed with an axe and molotov cocktail has driven his vehicle into bollards at a building at Brindabella Park around 3pm this afternoon. Police arrested the man at the scene and he is being...
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Shane gets a buzzword bingo with Bunda Street transformation
SHANE Rattenbury says Bunda Street will be transformed into a shared space for pedestrians, cyclists and other road users as part of ACT Government moves to revitalise the city centre. “A shared space...
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Socials / At ACT Training Fund annual breakfast, Federal Golf Club
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Fatal collision in Belconnen
ACT Policing is investigating a single vehicle collision off Kirinari Street, Belconnen today (Saturday, 20 September). About 10am this morning, security at the University of Canberra discovered a car...
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Mitchell burn
The ACT Rural Fire Service will conduct a hazard reduction burn, weather permitting, tomorrow, Sunday 21 September, 2014 at Vicars Street, Mitchell. The burn is expected to commence from 9.30am till...
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Review / Oratorio lifts the future bar
How can it be that a piece of music takes more than a quarter of a millennia to reach Australian concert platforms? Such was the case with G F Handel’s dramatic oratorio, “Alexander Balus”, written in...
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Socials / At the Benny Wills Gala Dinner, Southern Cross Club
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Escalator fire in Civic
A city building has been evacuated so firefighters can investigate an escalator fire. ACT Fire & Rescue were called to Moore Street just after 7am after smoke was reported issuing from the...
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The Chief’s been hacked!
IF not for a robot I force to check I might never have noticed that the Chief Minister of the ACT has had her blog hacked by Iranians. As it is I would advise against visiting the compromised site,...
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Parliament ramps up security, only months after scaling it back
By Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra Liberal senator Bill Heffernan has had the last laugh on the serious question of security at Australia’s Parliament. Earlier this year, security was...
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