To commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Kokoda Campaign this Remembrance Day, Kokoda Youth Foundation are holding a Kokoda Legacy event on Saturday November 12 through Kokoda Barracks in Canungra, where Australian soldiers were trained in jungle warfare before being deployed to New Guinea in 1942. Event participants will hike or trail run either a…
DoorDash and Wing Announce Pilot Program
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DoorDash and Wing have developed the capability to make drone delivery available via the DoorDash app in Australia, delivering convenient access to food and essentials from local restaurants and retailers in 15 minutes or less. Launching this week the service will be tested via a pilot program in Logan, located within the booming South East…
Quantum Leap: A Leap to Di For
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Director Christopher Allen Starring Joshua Ramsey, Ed Ernstes & LaDonna Pettijohn Score 5/6 Sam Beckett has leapt into a 26-year-old American male on a visit to Paris, France. Finding himself with a beautiful young British girl, all seems well until Sam discovers the exact date: August 30, 1997, twenty-four hours before the death of Princess…
Australia Post Spread the Merry campaign
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Australia Post is taking its annual Spread the Merry campaign to new heights this year with a continued focus on delivering joy and creating connection. The new campaign, created by The Monkeys, tells the story of an inflatable Santa who has been blown away from his home on a suburban lawn and is off on…
AIDC Reveals Theme and First Look at Program
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Australian International Documentary Conference (AIDC) has revealed 2023 theme and first look at program line-up. The Southern Hemisphere’s premier industry forum and marketplace for documentary and factual content – the Australian International Documentary Conference (AIDC) – have announced the first confirmed guests and theme for its 2023 conference. Thanks to the support of Principal Partner…
VFF Red Poppy Award Winners Announced
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Matt Nable’s Transfusion, Starring Sam Worthington has won the the Red Poppy Award for Best Film at the Veteran’s Film Festival. Jury Chair Bruce Beresford announced Transfusion as the winner of the prestigious *Howard Frank Van Norton Award for Best Film among a cluster of Red Poppy Awards including Sam Worthington for Best Actor and…
ACT Government Releases Best Start strategy
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The ACT Government is committed to working with service providers and community partners to ensure every child in Canberra can reach their full potential. The Best Start for Canberra’s Children: The First 1000 Days Strategy (Best Start), released recently, sets out the ACT Government’s vision for working with community and service partners to ensure early…
FuelCheck App Expanded to ACT
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Canberra motorists will have access to real-time fuel pricing comparisons across the ACT after the NSW FuelCheck app was expanded into the ACT. The ACT Government, in collaboration with the NSW Government, is introducing the NSW FuelCheck scheme to the ACT as part of a six-month pilot. Prices will be displayed per litre, without any…
SBS Announces Anthology Series Erotic Stories for 2023
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SBS and Screen Australia have announced a new eight-part Australian drama anthology for 2023 – Erotic Stories. The anthology is a series of standalone contemporary tales about lust, desire, and longing, but with an SBS twist. Each story explores desire from a different character perspective and spotlights diverse experiences of sex and intimacy across age,…
Brownlow Medalist Peter Cripps Partners with Coles this Movember
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Coles is harnessing the power of the Mo this Movember, with a bristly range of limited-edition products that make it easy for customers to do good for men’s health. In Australia, three out of four of suicides are men, one in five men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in their lifetime, and testicular cancer…
Remember those Christmas Delivery Deadlines
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With Christmas approaching, Australia Post is encouraging people to get cracking on Christmas shopping, announcing the all-important last sending dates for delivery within Australia. Australia Post Executive General Manager, Customer and Commercial Gary Starr explained that for sending to and from most destinations within Australia via Parcel Post, parcels should be sent by Monday 12…
Six 1930s Australian Pennies Headed to Auction
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Six 1930s Australian pennies have come to auction following one being sold unreserved last month breaking an Australian record selling for $60,000 in an online auction. “Following the news of the penny breaking a record at Lloyds Auctions, people were flooding our phones in hopes they had one of these rare pennies, and from this…
Plan 9 From Outer Space
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Director Ed Wood Starring Gregory Walcott, Bela Lugosi, Maila Nurmi, Tor Johnson & Lyle Talbot Rated PG Score 1/6 Evil aliens attack Earth and set their terrible “Plan 9” into action. As the aliens resurrect the dead of the Earth, the lives of the living are in danger. For those of you who might be…
Australian Premiere of Apple Original Films’ Causeway as Opening Night Film for Veterans Film Festival
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Apple Original Films’ Causeway, starring and produced by Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence, will have its Australian Premiere as the opening night film for the Veterans Film Festival in Sydney on November 3 in the presence of Festival Patrons, their Excellencies, General the Honourable David Hurley AC DSC (Retd), Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia and…
Non MCU Comic Book Movie Recommendations
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Okay. For the past little while I have found that most of the MCU movies that I have watched have felt like a chore to watch as the cinematic universe had seemingly gone and thats why I haven’t been in a rush to go and review some of the more recent releases. I do hope…
Die In a Gunfight
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Director Collin Schiffli Starring Diego Boneta, Alexandra Daddario & Justin Chatwin Rated MA Score 4.5/6 In New York City, a young guy falls for the daughter of his father’s nemesis. Okay, I’ll admit this movie has been sitting on my to-watch list for a long time. Not as long as some movies but it was…
Over 2 Million Bottles Through Guildford Return and Earn
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Return and Earn has revealed that Guildford locals have returned a massive over 2,250,475 bottles and containers through the NSW Container Deposit Scheme over the last year. “We are thrilled to see so many people engaging with the Return and Earn Centre at Guildford. The scheme plays such an important role in Australia’s fight against…
Guide Dog Graduates
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Vision Australia will recognise eight handlers and Seeing Eye Dogs who have been successfully paired this year at its annual graduation on Wednesday, October 12. Held in the lead-up to World Sight Day, the Queensland Parliament event celebrates the life-changing bond of assistance animals and people who are blind or low vision. “Training can take…