David Ellery

David Ellery

David Ellery

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?

Veterans back reinvigorated Anzac Day

News:  Photos and the names of places Australian Forces have served are projected onto the Australian War Memorial on ANZAC Day.  25 April 2013 Canberra Times photo by Jeffrey Chan.

David Ellery War veterans and stakeholders have given a big thumbs up to the first Canberra Anzac Day commemoration to be conducted on newly appointed Australian War Memorial director Brendan Nelson’s watch.

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New life for AWM services

David Ellery War veterans and stakeholders have given a big thumbs up to the first Canberra Anzac Day commemoration to be conducted on the watch of the newly appointed Australian War Memorial director, Dr Brendan...

ACT vulnerable to potential uni cuts

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David Ellery The Gonski reforms were never going to bring large sums of money to the ACT, chief minister Katy Gallagher says.

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Lost in Transit: luxury road trip awaits

Tam and Jackie Kelly with their 1974 Ford Transit Camper Van.

David Ellery Great Scots Tam and Jackie Kelly are the envy of grey nomads and wannabe around-Australia tripsters everywhere with their immaculate 1974 Ford Transit motorhome.

Police deny inaction on car fire bombings

Ray Whitehead's looks into the melted remains of the interior of his son's holden commodore that was firebombed Isabella Plains.

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

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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.

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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John's journeys are all about his passion

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Speleologist (the study of caves), John Dunkley, has been awarded an AM. Pictured at Mt Taylor reserve. 
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Photo: Rohan Thomson. The Canberra Times.

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David Ellery P earce's John Dunkley is the type of teacher we all wish we'd had at school. The retired educator, who turns 70 this year, has a passion for life and a curiosity about the world around him that...

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When Canberra took flight

David Ellery Sir Charles Kingsford Smith is not a name that springs to mind when one is talking about the early history of air travel to Canberra.

He's no ordinary young man

David Ellery When he was 15 years old UberGlobal's Michael McGoogan hired his mother, Margaret, to manage the accounts for his fledgling IT start-up in Rivett.

The shooting of Eddie Jones

David Ellery This is an extended version of an article on Battle of Milne Bay veteran, Eddie Jones, that appears in Thursday's Canberra Times.

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Milne Bay veteran makes his return

90 year old Battle of Milne Bay veteran Ed Jones at home in Waramanga before departing Canberra for the 70th anniversary of the battle in Papua New Guinea.

David Ellery Waramanga's Eddie Jones left Canberra yesterday morning for his second all-expenses-paid trip to Papua New Guinea's Milne Bay.

Making the world healthier

HOSPITAL AFR PHOTO BY VIRGINIA STAR

David Ellery Making the world a better place is a major fringe benefit of a typical day at the office for Aspen Medical managing director Glenn Keys.