Dry autumn made burnoff sensible move

David Ellery Controlled burn in Canberra's north a pre-emptive strike to keep residents safe come summer.

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The building that never gave up

David Ellery If there was a competition for Canberra's longest running development project it would be difficult to beat the John Gorton Building.

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You call that a budget cut?

David Ellery Tough times called for tough medicine and Scullin was willing to deliver it.

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A new chapter, but no verse

David Ellery You must have noticed by now that the Centenary of Canberra celebrations have been suffering from a terrible lack of poetry.

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WWII crash mystery solved

David Ellery The mystery of Canberra's second World War II air crash has been solved.

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Time to torpedo Emden 'link'

David Ellery The Canberra Times has been anointed with an unwarranted dose of venerability by a German film producer celebrating the exploits of the World War I raider SMS Emden, Gang-Gang has been told.

Safety alert after road deaths spike

David Ellery Calls for ACT government to commission urgent review of the territory's road safety priorities.

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I'll show you a horror budget

David Ellery In addition to lending his name to one of our city's nicer suburbs, Sir Arthur William Fadden also deserves the credit for imprinting the ''horror budget'' concept so deeply into the national psyche...

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Now, this is what I call a budget

David Ellery While the cut-backs in Tuesday's budget are fairly benign, the Fadden budget of 1951 had real teeth.

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Music festival reaches full voice

David Ellery Who is this delightful child perched atop the head of a Walter Burley Griffin in the late 1920s?

Morris shares a birthday with Canberra

David Ellery One of Canberra's most remarkable vehicles, an almost perfect replica of "the father of all MGs", will take centre stage at a rally to mark the 100th anniversary of Morris cars next Saturday.

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Sword of Gallipoli: the mystery and the myth

David Ellery Was the Eureka sword of rebel leader Peter Lalor used decades later by his grandson against the Turkish at Gallipoli?

Thatcher Down Under

David Ellery Apart from Tony Blair, who spent three-and-half years in Adelaide as a child, no British prime minister has spent more time in Australia than Margaret Thatcher.

Good Book helps raise $400,000

David Ellery Lifeline raises well over $400,000 at its three-day Autumn book fair.

Westpac agrees to refund held pension

David Ellery Westpac has reimbursed a Canberra disability pensioner who had almost half of his pension ''garnished''.

Tokens of thanks for six brave sons who went to war

David Ellery Nowra's Alice Guppy made a remarkable contribution to the war effort during World War II. Six of her seven sons served overseas in defence of their country.

A model of virtue at day of the Ford

David Ellery When Canberra car tragic Peter Gifford was younger, good mechanics were hard to find.

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Old boys get on their bikes for charity

David Ellery AWM director Brendan Nelson and Vice Chief of Defence Force Air Marshal Mark Binskin both love their motor bikes.

Fears rising over hazards of marijuana substitutes

David Ellery Products sold as marijuana substitutes and reviewed by teenage customers as giving a 25-minute-long ''eight out of 10'' high continue to be sold in Canberra stores.