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Canberra Girls Grammar School Early Learning Centre flies the flag for...
JOY Burch has congratulated Canberra Girls Grammar School Early Learning Centre for becoming the first service in the ACT to be awarded an ‘Excellent’ rating by the Australian Children’s Education and...
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Brown water in Kaleen and Bruce
ACTEW Water will be undertaking work in the Kaleen and Bruce area on Wednesday September 24 which may result in temporary discolouration of water at some properties. Streets that may be impacted are...
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The Gudgenby River has been tamed!
ROADS ACT says work is now complete on the $2 million upgrade to Smiths Road Bridge over the Gudgenby River. Smiths Road Bridge crosses the Gudgenby River approximately three kilometres south of...
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Cartoon / Dose of Dorin
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The grim story of the Snowy Mountains’ cannibal horses
By Don Driscoll, Australian National University and Sam Banks, Australian National University WHEN you think of horses in the Australia high country, you might imagine noble brumbies galloping out from...
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Tenant artists share a bond
THE annual Canberra Tenants Union art exhibition will be opened by Canberra/Queanbeyan rapper and writer, Omar Musa this Wednesday, September 24–and for the first time it’s at Belconnen Arts Centre....
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Eastman amendments pass a month after Eastman walks free
SIMON Corbell says amendments to the Crimes Act 1900 have been passed in the Legislative Assembly to bring certainty to the process of inquiring into criminal convictions. “The amendments to the Act...
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Wesley musicians in concert
WESLEY Music’s Instrumental Scholars are its pride and joy, and the public can see them perform in the Wesley Music Centre tomorrow, Wednesday, September 24 from 12.40 to 1.20pm. The works on the...
View ArticleLetters / Crisis? What crisis?
BEGINNING in May 2013, throughout the election and periodically peppered in media bites since then, now-PM Abbott and now-Treasurer Hockey talked up the “budget crisis” and “budget emergency”. Hockey...
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Birthday bells for Larry
IF you’re passing by Aspen Island tomorrow, Wednesday, September 24 between 12:30pm and 1:20pm, pause for a moment for a recital marking the 80th Birthday of eminent Australian (and Canberran)...
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Gardening / Prepare now for dahlia delights
Dahlias are a feature for the late summer/autumn garden.EVEN though they’re for sale in garden centres now, it’s still too early to plant dahlia tubers, which flower in late summer to autumn. It is...
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Socials / At the Menslink Business Breakfast, Hotel Realm, Barton
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Coup for Portrait Gallery with Indonesian masters
HOT on the heels of the Indonesian Embassy’s celebrations yesterday of the country’s 69th birthday, comes a major cultural event that confirms the respect which our populous neighbour to the north is...
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Conservation Council savages the Labor/Green ACT Government
THE ACT’s Conservation Council says legislation passed today by the ALP-Green ACT Government will lead to a net-loss of biodiversity. “The biodiversity offsets legislation passed in the ACT...
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Arts in the City / Powell to tickle the ivories for the LSO
GREAT news that Canberra pianist Susanne Powell has been invited to be guest celeste player with the London Symphony Orchestra when they tour Australia later this year. “Exciting times,” Powell tells...
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Canberra Confidential / Revealed: Real life on the light rails
NOW that the taxpayers look like being lumbered with the squillion dollars for the light rail project, CC thought it worth sharing the dumbed down way costly Capital Metro illustrates a...
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Simon says guessed at light rail numbers add up, Alistair says they don’t
SIMON Corbell says bus patronage figures reported in today’s “Canberra Times” for “routes in the Northbourne Avenue corridor” do not reflect bus patronage along the entire light rail route from City...
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Dining / Meeting a passion for pizza
Il Portico… the décor is comforting, the staff friendly and the food tasty, honest and inexpensive. Photo by Gary SchaferA FRIEND of mine isn’t keen on pizzas. Fair enough, but to be honest I don’t get...
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Like-minded artists celebrate spring at Albert Hall
ASOC, the Artists’ Society of Canberra was founded in 1927 and tonight’s its annual night of nights, as curator, writer and heritage advisor Peter Haynes opens its Spring Art Competition and Exhibition...
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The Fear, a poem by Omar Musa
Canberra/Queanbeyan writer Omar Musa wrote a poem today which we thought worthy of sharing given the emotions of the moment. It appears here with the kind permission of the author. The Fear...
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