ACTTAB shareholders have announced today that following a competitive tender process Tabcorp has been chosen as the successful purchaser of ACTTAB for $105.5 million. A spokesperson explained that the sale is expected to be finalised in late 2103 and during this period prior to completion will allow Tabcorp to proceed through final probity checks by…
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Australian Para-Sport Success at Glasgow 2014
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Australia’s Para-sport athletes have had a measure of success at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games. After four days of competition Australia’s Para-athletes have won four gold, four silver and six bronze medals, or almost half of the 30 Para-sport medals that have been on offer. Paralympian Jodi Elkington’s victory in the women’s F37/38 long jump…
Improving ACT book of the year prize
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Minister for the Arts Joy Burch recently announced that the ACT Government will look at ways to improve the ACT Book of the Year prize to give shortlisted and winning authors more opportunities to promote their success. “In my discussions with the arts community about the Book of the Year prize, it has become clear…
ACCC launches Your Rights Mob – Indigenous consumers Facebook page
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The ACCC recently launched a new Facebook page ‘ACCC – Your Rights Mob – Indigenous consumers’ to help inform and empower Indigenous consumers to stand up for their consumer rights. This is on the back of launching the ‘Your Rights Mob Tiwi Islands’ Facebook page, which was launched on the Tiwi Islands, north of Darwin,…
Boys of Abu Ghraib
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Director Luke Moran Starring Luke Moran, Sean Astin & Sara Paxton Rated MA Score 5/6 An American soldier deployed at Abu Ghraib finds himself behind the walls of the infamous Hard Site, where he develops a secret friendship with an Iraqi detainee. One thing that I have always wondered about movies that are real life…
Age of The Dragons
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Director Ryan Little Starring Danny Glover, Vinnie Jones, Corey Sevier Rated M Score 1/6 Herman Melville’s classic novel Moby Dick, is recreated in a world where Captain Ahab and his crew search for a Great White Dragon. I can understand the filmmaker’s logic behind making a change to Melville’s 1851 novel Moby Dick, being that…
Hercules
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Director Brett Ratner Starring Dwayne Johnson, John Hurt, Ian McShane Rated M Score 3/6 Having endured his legendary twelve labors, Hercules, the Greek demigod, has his life as a sword-for-hire tested when the King of Thrace and his daughter seek his aid in defeating a tyrannical warlord. After recently watching The Legend of Hercules starring…
Previously unknown soldiers identified and laid to rest
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The Minister for Veterans’ Affairs, Senator the Hon. Michael Ronaldson recently dedicated the headstones of 20 Australian soldiers on behalf of the Prime Minister and the Australian Government. “The identities of the 20 soldiers who were honoured at today’s ceremony were announced in May 2014 and are among 144 Australians who have been identified to…
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Director Brian Helgeland Starring Chadwick Boseman, T.R. Knight, Harrison Ford Rated PG Score 6/6 The story of Jackie Robinson from his signing with the Brooklyn Dodgers organization in 1945 to his historic 1947 rookie season when he broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball. Ok, I have to admit that there was a large…
A Car Door and the $7 Medicare co-payment
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Apologies for not making the Editor’s Note a regular feature on the movie boards. But it’s been awhile since I have had anything important to say. Before I get to far into this piece I would like to take the opportunity to say to the not so honourable Prime Minister Tony ‘the mad monk’ Abbott…