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Digital edition 18 August

POLITICAL columnist MICHAEL MOORE thinks the chief statistician should be commended rather than pilloried for courageously closing the ABS website on census night. Fellow columnist JOHN GRIFFITHS is not so sure.

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Digital edition 30 June

QUEENSLAND's Dami Im took the country, if not the world, by storm when she sang her way to runner-up in this year's Eurovision Song Contest. In her pre-concert interview with arts editor HELEN MUSA she talks about opera, karaoke and shares a musical secret.

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Digital edition 12 May

HUGH PITTY, of Bega, has written this week’s Grumpy column, sad at the closing of Canberra’s “best budget bed and breakfast” accommodation, Victor Lodge in Kingston.

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Digital edition 28 April

HERE’S an interesting statistic that ClubsACT has come across: 30 ACT community clubs buy meat-tray raffle prizes worth $1.8 million a year. But the thinking is that the meat trays, the local butcher shops and the people who work in them are imperiled if the ACT government gives in to the casino on poker machines. This and more in CANBERRA CONFIDENTIAL.

JOHN GRIFFITHS spends a lunchtime in Civic watching the high-pressure sales techniques of the transient charity muggers – chuggers – in Civic; this week’s Grumpy columnist COLIN DALTON, of Harrison, is sick of Canberra’s untidy streetscapes and our snapper ANDREW FINCH gets a selfie with an amorous llama!

NEVER mind the light rail, Canberra has been arguing about railways for decades, reveals local historian NICHOLE OVERALL. Elsewhere, MICHAEL MOORE is unhappy about property developers dictating our future, JOHN GRIFFITHS steps up to defend the maligned Haig Park and CEDRIC BRYANT says it’s time to starting planning spring bulbs.

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