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Sweet memories of the Snowies as a winter dreamworld

David Ellery As a relatively new resident of the Canberra region I have found the early history of the area, particularly its pre-capital heritage, at once fascinating and often overshadowed by the events since...

Abbott gets his karma in bike ride

David Ellery Yesterday's gruelling Fitz's Challenge bike ride in the Brindabellas was a great way to ''get my karma for the week'', Opposition Leader Tony Abbott says.

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Old target heads out once more

David Ellery The gold coach bailed up by Ben Hall and Tom Clarke near Major's Creek in 1865 has been restored and can be seen at the Braidwood Museum.

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Downfall of the Jingera Mob

David Ellery While recently perusing the early editions of The Golden Age, the original name of Queanbeyan's long-lived newspaper, I came across evidence the infamous ''Jingera Mob'' of bushrangers was active...

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Chance to own a piece of history

David Ellery Back in the dark ages, when mammoths still roamed the earth and I was looking to buy my first home, I entered a real estate agent's office for the first time.

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Future bleak for leaders, says psychic

David Ellery One of the winners from last weekend's territory election was Canberra psychic Suzy Cherub.

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None the verse for the passage of time

David Ellery Poetry is a very personal thing and the standards of one age don't always match the expectations of another.

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Perfection: the marque of a man

David Ellery Perfection, particularly when it comes to mechanical devices made of metal, wood and leather, is an elusive and impossible dream.

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Fun run is all for a good Claus

David Ellery Gang-gang has been assured ''the real Santa'' was among the crowd of 14 jovial men and women at Canberra Hospital yesterday.

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A joke for some, but writer proves profound

David Ellery Gang-gang's recent call for information on Paul Linebarger's sojourn in the city has drawn some interesting responses.

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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.

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Lapping it up like a duck to water

David Ellery This city's love affair with ducks has flared up anew with the emergence of the first members of the next generation from their nests.

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Journey from here to eternity

David Ellery Gang-gang is on a mission. I want to track down anybody with a story to tell about one of the most remarkable, but least celebrated, of all this city's former residents.

Builder, authority at odds over licence

David Ellery Brendan Eames, the subject of the longest building licence cancellation in the history of the ACT, says he was treated unfairly by territory authorities and that his punishment does not fit the crime.

'Wounded ambassadors' appointed for new veterans' charity

David Ellery "Stupidity," is the one word reply Sergeant Michael Lyddiard gives when asked why he chose to become a bomb disposal expert serving in Afghanistan.

Am I the only one who is sick and tired of ``forgotten history'' claims

David Ellery Yet more ``forgotten history'' has surfaced, this time in relation to the Cuban Missile Crisis which is approaching its 50th anniversary.

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.

Builder asked to fix building flaws

David Ellery A Canberra building company linked to a score of high profile housing developments across the city has been issued with a ‘‘notice of intention to make rectification’’.

One year on ... Mitchell fire still casts a pall

David Ellery A year on from the massive Mitchell industrial fire, workers and residents in the suburb are still coping with health fears, stalled building projects and dramas with property access.