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Clubs bridle at portable long service impost

ClubsACT maintains portable long service leave should not be extended to licensed clubs, particularly under current economic conditions, warning smaller suburban venues could be hardest hit if additional costs are introduced.

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Opinion

Ben Roberts-Smith – war hero or war criminal?

Having trouble following the events and opinions swirling around this week's sensational arrest of VC recipient Ben Roberts-Smith? Law professor CLIVE WILLIAMS, a former platoon commander, offers a step-by-step guide to what's going on.

Opinion

KEEPING UP THE ACT

Deep in debt, our brave Chief goes on a special fiscal extraction mission to Expendia Prime in the Parliamentary Cluster. KEEPING UP THE ACT shares what he discovered on project Hail Katy...

Arts

Music

Peelman taks the Art Song chair

An uncomfortable changing of the guard has taken place at Art Song Canberra, with chair Ditta Zizi stepping down and former Canberra International Music Festival director Roland Peelman voted in as president, reports HELEN MUSA.

Lifestyle

Wine

A pleasing taste of latter-day claret

"The term claret was widely used in Britain for Bordeaux wines throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, and it still appears today as a marketing term, though much less commonly," writes RICHARD CALVER.

Wine

Picking rosés on a sunny day 

"The taste was richer than the French wine with a delicate berry flavour that was clean and dry with a longer finish than expected from this style of wine." Wine columnist RICHARD CALVER pits an Aussie rosé against a French one.

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