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Clovelly Child Care Centre needs volunteers each week to plant, grow and harvest four established vegetable gardens. Get along for a tour of the centre and afternoon tea at 3.30pm today to find out how you can contribute...

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NSW is the host for the first game tonight and if you can’t go to Homebush, get down to your local as the series takes on extra importance as the Blues (under new coach Laurie Daley) look to end the Maroons record brea...

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See David Burnett’s photographs of Bob Marley at his Kingston, Jamaica apartment and studio in the 1970s, and his Exodus tour of Europe, as well as unpublished photographs of Marley, presenting a rare and unique view o...

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It’s not too late to enter the Waverley Youth Art Award so if you are a resident or student of the Waverley/Eastern Suburbs area between the ages of 12 and 25 years, show how good you are and get your entry in now. Con...

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Get down to Centennial Parklands today between 10am & 2pm for hand–led, ten-minute pony rides for 2-11 year olds (weather permitting). Tickets available on the day from the Visitor Information Counter, next to the...

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The Gunnedah Shire Band is hosting a Charity Ball at the Crowne Plaza, Coogee to raise funds for the Bobby Goldsmith Foundation. Get your tickets online at www.trybooking.com/CLTF. For info, visit www.boldasbrassgalaball...

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For this month’s article I’d fully intended on writing about 457 visas and the chronic shortage of digitally skilled workers in Australia. Yet in the interests of dodging controversy I’ve decided against it. And le...

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Last month I touched on the levels of Burgundy at the end of my article. If you haven’t read it, check it out – it’ll help your understanding of this article. The ‘main bit’ (very technical term) of Burgundy co...

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The expression “Don’t come the raw prawn with me” originated among the Australian services in World War II. It refers to an attempt to deceive someone or misrepresent a situation – basically, “Don’t try to pu...

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It is with a certain sense of inevitability that the time has finally come for this column to focus attention on every Pommie’s supposed favourite topic: the weather. But this Englishman isn’t here to uphold ...

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