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Latest news: Centenary

Manuka Oval scores a century

Manuka Oval has come a long way since it was an open grassy field - Blandfordia Recreation Reserve (an exciting name) - beside Spring Creek in 1924, but today it’s all grown up...

Continual growth the secret to Canberran’s centenary

A soldier, minister, public servant, author, family man and upstanding member of the community, Alan Reeve North has spent his 100 years on earth leading a life well lived.

Ghosts, Gough and other famous Telopeans

Telopea Park School is celebrating its 100th year – minus the nine days when it was a temporary hospital in 1927 – and there are some scintillating ghost stories and Gough stories...

A century since 75 killed in mining disaster

It's been 100 years since one of Australia's worst mining disasters claimed 75 lives when an explosion caused a fireball west of Cairns.

China won’t be bullied by foreigners: Xi

President Xi Jinping has extolled the "new world" the people of China have created as the country's communist party marks its centenary in Beijing.

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