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Katy on Gough
CHIEF Minister Gallagher has blogged her speech to the Assembly’s Gough Whitlam condolence motion. Here’s what she had to say: Madam Speaker, the entire Australian nation has been moved this week by...
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A gay party at the Hyatt tonight to greet the Australian Christian Lobby
QUEER news site “Same Same” are reporting that there will be a protest party this evening at the Hyatt Hotel over the Australian Christian Lobby using that venue for its national conference. A...
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Bikies busted
ACT Policing detectives assigned to Taskforce Nemesis arrested three local OMCG members in three separate operations yesterday (October 23). All three will appear in the ACT Magistrates Court today...
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Review / ‘Hector and the Search for Happiness’ (M) ***
THE box office will determine whether this German/African co-production, the first film based on one of Francois Lelord’s novels about small-scale hero Hector (family name not stated), has the grunt to...
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Review / ‘Fury’ (MA) ***
THE European phase of World War II ended on May 7, 1945. Writer/director David Ayer’s film about a Sherman tank and its five-man crew at the front of the Allied push into western Germany on a mid-April...
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He had just one job. Small fluffy dog is not a very good driver
AS seen on Alinga Street around 12.30 today. A small white fluffy dog appears to have rear ended an ACTION bus. While some would say running up the back of a bus on a clear day is not very good...
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Review / ‘Living Is Easy (With Eyes Closed)’ (M) ***
THE main element of the title of Spanish filmmaker David Trueba’s prize-winning film begins the second stanza of “Strawberry Fields Forever”, which John Lennon composed in 1966 while tripping on...
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Honesty in food description from the Golden Drum
THE Golden Drum restaurant on University Avenue does a pretty good Yum Cha. But, in this world overwhelmed with excessive adverbiage surrounding food as TV networks cash in on public demand for fat...
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Tidbinbilla by torchlight
Moon rise at Camel’s Hump by Drew English TIDBINBILLA Nature Reserve is offering the chance to explore it during the evening and watch native animals emerge from their hiding places for nightfall. “The...
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Woman burned in McKellar house fire
A woman has sustained minor injuries after a small fire inside a home at McKellar. The ACT Ambulance Service and ACT Fire & Rescue were alerted to the incident in Fred Jones Crescent at 5 o’clock....
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Light rail business case and the light of day
It’s all hosannas and hallelujahs for the glories of light rail today. The long awaited business case has been released. And the ACT Government has pushed out a video on how great it will be. Tweets...
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NSW stumps up $20,000 for Canberra’s theatre awards
MEMBER for Monaro John Barilaro was joined yesterday by Deputy Premier and Minister for the Arts Troy Grant to announce a $20,000 grant to help fund the Canberra Area Theatre (CAT) Awards. Following...
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Review / ‘Pride’ (M) *** and a half
REMEMBER “Brassed Off” and “The Full Monty”, films in which British underdogs confronted crisis and the establishment with novel solutions to current industrial problems? Weren’t they great fun? So is...
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Review / ‘The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet’ (M) *** and a half
IN this charming little odyssey written and directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet from a novel by Reif Larsen, 10-year-old TS (Kyle Catlett) leaves the family ranch on the crest of the Rocky Mountains near...
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Review / ‘Kill The Messenger’ (M) ***
THE source for Michael Cuesta’s film is Gary Webb’s 1996 articles in the “San Jose Mercury” telling how the CIA set in motion the 1980s crack cocaine epidemic by importing planeloads of cocaine into...
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Cycling accident leads to $1.7 million in damages
ALL cyclists will feel their blood run cold reading the judgment in the matter of Franklin v Blick. Justice Burns has found that David Blick failed to keep “any proper lookout”, which lead to his...
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Actew Water turns on a new name
ACTEW Water is changing its name to Icon Water. John Knox, Managing Director of ACTEW Water said that the new brand draws on the contributions that their organisation has made to the lives of...
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Socials / At the inaugural IGA Rooftop House Gala Dinner, Woden
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Socials / At the Sportstar of the Year Awards, Tradies Woden
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Review / Birthday treat from young players
One needs look no further than the Canberra Youth Orchestra to observe the depth of Canberra’s talented musical future. Birthday boy…Larry Sitsky.In a program of complex and challenging works conducted...
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