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• Canberra IKEA opening hacked with 'FAKEA' price tags

  

  Video will begin in5seconds.IKEA opening dayHear from the people who got there first and why.PT0M55S620349​IKEA may design its price tags first, but up to 200 fake tags littered around Canberra's brand-new store got tongues wagging on Monday.Lobby group Fair Go For Canberra sobered Canberrans' giddy glee at flatpacks and meatballs at Monday's Majura Park store opening by drawing attention to the company'smulti-national corporate tax avoidanceusing parody price tags.Parody price tags were litte..

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• Canberra set to sizzle as El Nino sparks warmer, drier, fire-prone summer

  

  Video will begin in5seconds.Details on the summer Canberra can expectJames Casey from Weatherzone details how this summer in the ACT will be different to recent summers of the past.PT0M40S620349Canberra is set to sizzle this summer with hotter and drier conditions forecast for the ACT, elevating the risk of bushfire.Weatherzone meteorologist James Casey said the El Nino weather event taking hold of south-eastern Australia was set to spark warmer than average temperatures throughout December to F..

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• St John Ambulance allocates lifesaving defibrillators to selection of...

  

  St John Ambulance allocates lifesaving defibrillators to selection of Canberra community organisationsPostedNovember 18, 2015 16:11:48 Five Canberra community organisations will be armed with the ability to save lives after being allocated defibrillator machines by St John Ambulance. Defibrillators are the only real way to recalibrate the heart, defibrillate it and get it back to a steady rhythm so that the blood can continue to circulate. Christopher Ward, CEO ..

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• Canberra has a bad case of amnesia, says Ken Henry | afr

  

  Former Treasury secretary Ken Henry says we have forgotten how to do policy.Louise KennerleyDecades of government outsourcing and waves of senior redundancies have left much of the nation's public service unable to provide proper and effective advice to politicians and their voters, say two former Treasury bosses.In a damning assessment of the state of the public service after years of political turmoil in Canberra, Ken Henry and Martin Parkinson have warned that both the abilities and corporate..

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• ACT government to move 1100 ACT Health and Access Canberra staff to Woden

  

  Woden Town Centre will get a boost from the announcement.Photo: Graham TidyThe ACT government will move about 1100 territory Health Directorate and Access Canberra staff to Woden as it continues efforts to reorganise office accommodation.The bid to revitalise the ailing town centre would see three main public service locations: Woden, Gungahlin and the city, where a planned privately-owned government office block has been pushed back to after the 2016 election.Woden calling: ACT Chief Minister A..

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• Canberra teens charged with Batemans Bay robberies

  

  Two Canberra teens have been charged with a string of offences after alleged robberies in Batemans Bay in the early hours of Saturday morning.An 18-year-old and a 17-year-old were charged with a combined 20 offences after Batemans Bay Police stopped the car they were travelling in on the Princes Highway in North Batemans Bay on Saturday at 10.45am.The 18-year-old, from Gordon, was charged with one count of stolen goods, possessing house breaking implements, possessing cannabis leaf, two counts o..

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• Canberra company A1 Electrical Services fined after apprentice fell from roof

  

  Canberra company A1 Electrical Services fined after apprentice fell from roofThe apprentice fell off a roof while the company was installing solar panels.Photo: Jeffrey ChanA Canberra company has been fined $140,000, two years after one of its apprentices had to undergo surgery following a fall at a work site.Mitchell-based contractors A1 Electrical Services were installing solar panels in August 2013, when an apprentice fell from the roof after a ladder slipped from under him.The apprentice was..

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• Bystander who stopped machete attack says he is not a hero

  

  Canberra resident Goch Kot was travelling in a taxi on Thursday night when his driver was attacked by a man with a machete.Photo: Jeffrey ChanInstinct kicked in when Goch Kot saw a machete-wielding man lunge at his taxi driver in Canberra's north.It was late on Thursday night, and just a moment earlier Mr Kot had been happily focussed on the Socceroos as his taxi drove along Chandler Street, returning home from the qualifier against Kyrgyzstan at GIO Stadium.The next thing he knew, he was watchi..

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  The federal government next week will release a discussion paper seeking views on proposed changes to section 46 of the competition act aimed at preventing ...

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• Canberra clubs make $167 million in poker machine profits

  

  Poker machines: Brought $167 million in profits for ACT clubs in the last financial year.Photo: Virginia StarThe Labor Party-owned Labor Clubs are once again one of the smallest contributors to community groups among the city's major clubs, giving barely more than the minimum required from poker machine profits.The report on clubs' poker machine takings and community contributions for the 2014-15 year was released on Tuesday, showing declining gambling income, down $9.4 million, or 5 per cent, a..

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