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Arts / What’s on this weekend?
HELEN MUSA’s weekly arts column features opening concerts, events and shows in Canberra
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Arts / Harmony rules for The Manhattan Transfer
Harmony rules for The Manhattan Transfer, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Dining / Dining til dawn in Narrabundah
“I road tested the nasi goreng, which Kita labels the “Breakfast for Champions”. While I only finished half, I can see how starving shift workers would savour that size of a breakfast dish,” writes dining […]
Open Garden / Going for green, green and even weeds!
GREEN, green and more green, Joan O’Loughlin’s pretty cottage garden is abundant with foliage, including several varieties of weeds, which she admits she has a relaxed attitude towards. “There’s ivy, which I’ve always loved anyway, […]
Review / Music brings famous paintings to life
music / “Love & Desire”, National Gallery of Australia, February 15. Reviewed by HELEN MUSA
Costigan / Mischievous elves dump on Downer
“It might come as a surprise to the heartless ones who dream up such vague terms as ‘Urban Intensification Areas’ that residents take this stuff very personally. People are losing sleep,” writes PAUL COSTIGAN
182 cannabis plants found in Downer
MORE than 180 cannabis plants were found in a Downer home yesterday (Tuesday, February 19). Canberra police searched the home at about 3pm and found 182 cannabis plants, about 300 cannabis seeds and about two kilograms […]
Arts / A man of few and many words
Actor Christopher Samuel Carroll is a man of few… and many words!
Stanhope / Duped Labor and Greens need to fess up and fix it
“I am at a loss to understand what motivated the Liberal, Labor and Greens Parties to take such a gratuitously nasty and insulting step,” writes JON STANHOPE
The principal with firm principles for her girls
KATE MEIKLE is called to the principal’s office to meet the new head of Canberra Girls Grammar School to discuss gender politics, sport, phones and all things girls
Cartoon / Dose of Dorin
‘Big changes’ protect ACT school kids
THE ACT government is making “big” legislative changes to the education system, according to Education Minister Yvette Berry. Following the “Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse” and the Glanfield Review, the ACT […]
Gardening / Of beetles, elms and ash trees
MORE than 60 million Dutch elm trees have died over the past century, but in Australia we are fortunate to not have the disease here. It was first identified by a Dutch botanist and spread […]
Arts in the City / The funny side of senior moments
Among arts editor HELEN MUSA’s weekly sweep of the arts in Canberra is news of a comedy looking at the funny side of senior moments
Alison has the answer when relationships go wrong
EVERYONE has relationships go sour from time to time, says Relationships Australia’s new Canberra and Region CEO Alison Brook. “You might have a dispute with a supervisor at work or there might be conflict within […]
‘State actor’ hacks networks of major political parties
“A SOPHISTICATED state actor” has hacked the networks of the major political parties, Prime Minister Scott Morrison has told Federal Parliament. Recently the Parliament House network was disrupted, and the intrusion into the parties’ networks […]
Grattan / Labor’s lead cut in latest Ipsos poll
THE government has substantially narrowed the two-party gap in the Ipsos poll – it now trails Labor by just 49-51 per cent, compared with 46-54 per cent in December. The poll, reported in the “Australian […]
Star goes public on ‘Gypsy’ dumping
AS news spread of The Q’s decision to drop the planned April-May production of “Gypsy” with Geraldine Turner, both the director and the star of the show have gone public on Facebook, while the theatre […]
New Acton gets its supermarket back
AFTER 12 months, the space occupied by a grocery store and cafe at 21-23 Marcus Clarke Street, New Acton, has finally been leased. The previous 400 square metres have been divided and today a new […]
Pokie total falls as clubs surrender licences
THE maximum number of gaming machines that can be operated in the ACT has been reduced to 4012 after clubs voluntarily surrendered or forfeited through trading 934 gaming machine authorisations. The reduction of electronic gaming […]
