Minister for the Environment and Sustainable Development, Simon Corbell recently announced that several Queanbeyan businesses have signed up to the ACT Governments’ ACTSmart Business and Office recycling program. “The expansion of the ACTSmart Business and Office program to include Queanbeyan follows an agreement between the Queanbeyan City Council and the ACT Government and furthers the…
Battleship
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Directed by Peter Berg Staring Liam Neeson, Alexander Skarsgård, Brooklyn Decker, Taylor Kitsch and Josh Pence Rated M Score 2/6 The navies of the world are pitched against an invading alien force set on taking over the world in order to access its water supply. Trapped inside a 300-mile wide alien force field with no…
Foxtel and AUSTAR set to Merge
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It has been announced that Foxtel and Austar will merge to form a national subscription television service. The merger is subject to decision by ACCC, and pending approval by the Federal Court of the shareholder vote. “The new national FOXTEL will be one of Australia’s most progressive and dynamic media companies, it will directly employ…
Acion Bus Trial to Improve accessibility for Visually Impaired people
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A three-month trial of bus hailing kits to improve accessibility to bus services for vision impaired passengers was recently announced by ACT Chief Minister and Minister for Territory and Municipal Services, Katy Gallagher. “The bus hailing kit is a pocket-sized set of numbered cards that are printed with large-text and Braille numbers designed for use…
Freerunner
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Directed by Lawrence Silverstein Starring Sean Faris, Danny Dyer and Amanda Fuller Rated MA Score 2/6 With a ticking bomb locked to his neck, a young freerunner races against the clock and all types of baddies to get from one end of the city to the other to save himself and his girlfriend. Freerunner is…
A Further Nine more World War I diggers identified
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Minister for Defence Science and Personnel, Warren Snowdon, recently announced that nine Australians among the 250 Australian and British WW1 soldiers who were recovered from Pheasant Wood in France in 2009 by a Joint Identification Board held on 23 March 2012. Mr Snowdon commented that current identification brings the total number of Australians identified to…
Red State
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Directed by Kevin Smith Staring John Goodman, Melissa Leo & Michael Parks Rated MA Score 6/6 Set in Middle America, a group of teens receive an online invitation for sex, though they soon encounter fundamentalists with a much more sinister agenda. It is clear from the start that with Red State that Kevin Smith has…
Tactical Force
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Directed by Adamo Paolo Cultraro Starring Steve Austin & Michael Jai White Rated MA Score 2/6 A training exercise for the LAPD SWAT Team goes terribly wrong when they find themselves pitted against two rival gangs while trapped in an abandoned Hangar, armed with nothing but blanks. I really must be a sucker for punishment…
The Hunger Games
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Directed by Gary Ross Staring Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth Rated M Score 4/6 Set in a future where the Capitol selects a boy and girl from the twelve districts to fight to the death on live television, Katniss Everdeen volunteers to take her younger sister’s place for the latest match. I was…
Telstra providing technology for James Cameron’s DEEPSEA CHALLENGE
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Australian Telco Telstra will be providing technology that will connect the world to images of James Cameron’s DEEPSEA CHALLENGE expedition, a joint scientific project by Cameron, the National Geographic Society and Rolex to conduct deep-ocean research and exploration eleven kilometers below the surface in the ocean’s deepest point the Mariana Trench. “It’s critical to have…