The ACT Government is committed to working with service providers and community partners to ensure every child in Canberra can reach their full potential. The Best Start for Canberra’s Children: The First 1000 Days Strategy (Best Start), released recently, sets out the ACT Government’s vision for working with community and service partners to ensure early…
FuelCheck App Expanded to ACT
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Canberra motorists will have access to real-time fuel pricing comparisons across the ACT after the NSW FuelCheck app was expanded into the ACT. The ACT Government, in collaboration with the NSW Government, is introducing the NSW FuelCheck scheme to the ACT as part of a six-month pilot. Prices will be displayed per litre, without any…
SBS Announces Anthology Series Erotic Stories for 2023
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SBS and Screen Australia have announced a new eight-part Australian drama anthology for 2023 – Erotic Stories. The anthology is a series of standalone contemporary tales about lust, desire, and longing, but with an SBS twist. Each story explores desire from a different character perspective and spotlights diverse experiences of sex and intimacy across age,…
Brownlow Medalist Peter Cripps Partners with Coles this Movember
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Coles is harnessing the power of the Mo this Movember, with a bristly range of limited-edition products that make it easy for customers to do good for men’s health. In Australia, three out of four of suicides are men, one in five men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in their lifetime, and testicular cancer…
Remember those Christmas Delivery Deadlines
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With Christmas approaching, Australia Post is encouraging people to get cracking on Christmas shopping, announcing the all-important last sending dates for delivery within Australia. Australia Post Executive General Manager, Customer and Commercial Gary Starr explained that for sending to and from most destinations within Australia via Parcel Post, parcels should be sent by Monday 12…
Six 1930s Australian Pennies Headed to Auction
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Six 1930s Australian pennies have come to auction following one being sold unreserved last month breaking an Australian record selling for $60,000 in an online auction. “Following the news of the penny breaking a record at Lloyds Auctions, people were flooding our phones in hopes they had one of these rare pennies, and from this…
Plan 9 From Outer Space
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Director Ed Wood Starring Gregory Walcott, Bela Lugosi, Maila Nurmi, Tor Johnson & Lyle Talbot Rated PG Score 1/6 Evil aliens attack Earth and set their terrible “Plan 9” into action. As the aliens resurrect the dead of the Earth, the lives of the living are in danger. For those of you who might be…
Australian Premiere of Apple Original Films’ Causeway as Opening Night Film for Veterans Film Festival
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Apple Original Films’ Causeway, starring and produced by Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence, will have its Australian Premiere as the opening night film for the Veterans Film Festival in Sydney on November 3 in the presence of Festival Patrons, their Excellencies, General the Honourable David Hurley AC DSC (Retd), Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia and…
Non MCU Comic Book Movie Recommendations
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Okay. For the past little while I have found that most of the MCU movies that I have watched have felt like a chore to watch as the cinematic universe had seemingly gone and thats why I haven’t been in a rush to go and review some of the more recent releases. I do hope…
Die In a Gunfight
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Director Collin Schiffli Starring Diego Boneta, Alexandra Daddario & Justin Chatwin Rated MA Score 4.5/6 In New York City, a young guy falls for the daughter of his father’s nemesis. Okay, I’ll admit this movie has been sitting on my to-watch list for a long time. Not as long as some movies but it was…
Over 2 Million Bottles Through Guildford Return and Earn
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Return and Earn has revealed that Guildford locals have returned a massive over 2,250,475 bottles and containers through the NSW Container Deposit Scheme over the last year. “We are thrilled to see so many people engaging with the Return and Earn Centre at Guildford. The scheme plays such an important role in Australia’s fight against…
Guide Dog Graduates
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Vision Australia will recognise eight handlers and Seeing Eye Dogs who have been successfully paired this year at its annual graduation on Wednesday, October 12. Held in the lead-up to World Sight Day, the Queensland Parliament event celebrates the life-changing bond of assistance animals and people who are blind or low vision. “Training can take…
Outback Queensland Town Cloncurry Film Incentive
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On the back of being the spectacular location for Channel 10’s Survivor in 2021, this small Outback Queensland town of some 3,000 people is currently starring in The Bank Manager, a short film about the legendary robbery by Quamby Studios’ Luke and Madeleine Chaplain. Filmmakers, writer, producers and actors, Luke and Madeleine, grew up on…
Chris Smith’s Documentary ‘Sr.’ Headed to Netflix
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Following its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival, five-time Emmy nominee Chris Smith’s documentary “Sr.”, an affectionate tribute to maverick filmmaker Robert Downey Sr., will head to Netflix. “Sr.” is set to screen at the New York Film Festival on October 10, 2022 with an encore screening on October 11, 2022 and will be…
Coles Product Price Lockdown
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With the cost-of-living pressures on the rise, Coles has launched ‘DROPPED&LOCKED’, working with suppliers to drop and lock in the price on products Aussies love the most by between 10 and 40%. Coles Chief Executive of Commercial and Express Leah Weckert said Coles is committed to helping customers find key staple products that will be…
Mounties Care supporting Yellow Wiggle’s Mission
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Former Yellow Wiggle Greg Page survived a cardiac arrest while performing at a Wiggles reunion show in January 2020. He survived because bystanders knew how to do CPR and there was an Automated External Defibrillator (AED) nearby in the club where he was performing. Of 28,000 cardiac arrests each year in Australia, only 10 per…
Bulla and Coles Fundrasing for SecondBite
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Coles and Bulla have joined forces to raise funds from the sale of icecream to help SecondBite provide the equivalent of up to one million meals for Aussies facing hardship. From September 28th until Octoberth 25, Coles and Bulla will donate 20 cents – the equivalent of one meal from every individual and bulk pack…
Bandit: Bandit Bandit
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Director Hal Needham Starring Brian Bloom, Brian Krause, Ami Dolenz, John Schneider & Richard Belzer Rated TV-PG Score 1/6 Assigned to deliver a prototype car to a press conference for the Governor, things are complicated by a fraudulent Bandit who ends up stealing Bandit’s rig AND the prototype. Now Bandit has to find out who’s…