The incident involving a truck smashing an excavator into Acton Tunnel, Parkes Way on Tuesday (20/10/15) highlights the importance of building city resilience, say members of built environment body Consult Australia working to reopen the site. Kevin Keith, ACT Manager for Consult Australia explained that City resilience is the capacity of people and places to…
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Alec Baldwin Named Face of La Dolce Italia 2016
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Television and Movie star Alec Baldwin, has been named as the face of La Dolce Italia 2016 in Melbourne. Mr. Baldwin will kick off the La Dolce Italia festival in February 2016 as guest of honour at several key festival events including the La Dolce Italia Charity Gala. In its second year, the Gala is…
Teletubbies Revival
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Teletubbies, one of the most iconic and influential children’s series of the last twenty years, is sure to delight a whole new generation of children and their families when the brand new series featuring the loveable antics of Tinky Winky, Dipsy, Laa-Laa and Po. Global phenomenon Teletubbies first launched in March 1997 and became one…
Legendary and Warner Bros announce Godzilla and King Kong movies
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Legendary and Warner Bros. Pictures have come together to announce three new movies featuring Godzilla and King Kong. Legendary Pictures CEO, Thomas Tull, and Kevin Tsujihara, Chairman and CEO, Warner Bros announced that the initial trio of films are KONG: SKULL ISLAND in 2017; GODZILLA 2 in 2018; and then GODZILLA VS. KONG, which arrives…
Good Mourning Mrs. Brown Tour Extra Shows Added
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Mrs. Brown’s Boys is returning to Australia in 2016 in the hilarious play Good Mourning Mrs. Brown. It’s the second play in the Mrs. Brown five part trilogy. Starring Brendan O’Carroll as Agnes Brown along with the original TV cast, doing the stuff they weren’t allowed to do on TV! “Australia was feckin’ amazing. Who…
Netflix Still on the Rise
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The number of Australian homes with a Netflix subscription rose again in September to 968,000 (10.5%), up another 113,000 from 855,000 in August, the latest subscription video on demand data from Roy Morgan Research. “Netflix service adoption in households continues to grow at a rate in the double digits month to month. These latest September…
Why my plans ‘fell through’
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Considering, that you all are an important part of my life because you keep coming back to the movie boards, I’ll always endeavour to be as truthful as possible with you. I’ve said it before and people who have known me for a number of years can attest to the fact that there was a…
NZ Repealing 120 Redundant Laws
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New Zealand’s Minister for Regulatory Reform, Steven Joyce, and the Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Regulatory Reform, David Seymour, have released a draft bill to repeal a range of redundant legislation. The Statutes Repeal Bill will remove 120 pieces of superfluous legislation, and parts of eight other acts. It is being consulted on before it is introduced…
Oh Wonderful Chocolate Bars
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Research recently released by Roy Morgan shows that in the year to June 2015, 4.9 million Aussies bought at least one chocolate bar from a supermarket in any given four-week period – accounting for more than three-quarters (76%) of the chocolate-bar buying public. “Since 2011, there has been a marginal decline in the proportion of…
World Arthritis Day October 12
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Arthritis is not a disease limited to ‘old people’. Over half the people with arthritis – almost two million – are of working age. The cost to the community is huge, estimated at $24 billion a year, and it’s one of the most common causes of work absenteeism. Wellvess Director Rob Grant explained that despite…