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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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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...

Young driven round the bend by road laws

David Ellery Canberra P-platers can drive on interstate freeways faster than their NSW counterparts.

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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''.

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Heroes to the rescue

David Ellery The first three months of 2011 were an acid test for the Australian Capital Territory's 16-year-old urban search and rescue capability.

Courage in danger zone

David Ellery When Canberra firefighter Craig Perks and the 71 other members of Australia's Urban Search and Rescue Task Force One first arrived at Christchurch's Latimer Square on February 23, 2011, there was...

Father unloads on police over drive-by shooting

David Ellery An irate Canberra father says ACT Policing fell well short of the mark in its response to a drive-by shooting in Kambah.

Shotgun blasts to car were 'criminal damage'

David Ellery ACT Policing classified the shotgunning of a car in Kambah on December 27 as an act of criminal damage because it was reported several hours after it happened, giving them 48 hours to respond.

Sweet teeth drive The Pink Lady's trade

David Ellery Long before farmers' markets and boutique foods were the flavours of the month, Rhonda Arnall and ''The Pink Lady'' pioneered a mobile gourmet ice-cream experience that is now satisfying a new...

Car firebombings hurt people, ruin lives, says victim

$\Mark Zezulka, a resident in Chisholm, Canberra had his car fire bombed last year.$

David Ellery Chisholm's Mark Zezulka wants the ''idiots'' set people's cars alight for fun to realise their pranks are not victimless crimes.

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Firebomb victim points finger at kids

David Ellery A security guard whose $40,000 Ford Ranger went up in flames on Tuesday night is the latest Canberran to fall foul of car firebombers who have struck almost 140 times in just over a year.

Keep clear of danger zone, car firebomb victims told

David Ellery Car firebombing victims should remain calm, stay back and leave the hands-on fire-fighting to the experts, ACT Fire and Rescue says.

Boulevards of broken dreams

David Ellery Asik Hossain was one of the last Canberrans to qualify for the federal government's $7000 ''boost'' for first-home owners building a home.

Police deny inaction on car fire bombings

David Ellery ACT Policing has defended its decision not to make public the fire bombing of a car outside a townhouse in Isabella Plains that hospitalised a Cromwell Circuit resident at 2am on Saturday.

Firebomb victim unhappy with ACT police

David Ellery Monday's report of ACT Policing's apparent lack of action over a shotgun attack on a car at Kambah just after Christmas was ''deja vu all over again'' for Curtin nurse Anne Duffy.

Archives left offer on shelf, claims owner

David Ellery A Canberra property company has cried foul over allegedly being sidelined in the $100 million debate about the National Archives of Australia redevelopment.

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Fostering is an act of faith and a labour of love

David Ellery W ayne and Fiona Landford are not afraid to wear their hearts on their sleeves for a good cause.

Helicopter wreckage tells a sad story

David Ellery To some people, the ripped and damaged Black Hawk helicopter engine cowling that has just arrived at the Australian War Memorial would be just another piece of flotsam from a foreign war.