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...What they didn't get rid of is a truthfulness that comes from characters drawn from life. Heidi was an art-school tomboy type Shortland had observed while working in a jeans shop in Canberra, where she grew up, while Bianca's Asperger's brother, in whom Heidi sees a mirror image of herself, is an amalgam of the children the director worked with as a teaching aide at a special school in Sydney. "There's something beautiful about their fixation with detail," Shortland recalls. The same could be said of her own painterly eye. And her extraordinary ability...
...coarse sandpaper to his reputation, Cameron is now likely to lose his marginal Sydney seat of Parramatta. The garrulous pants man may have believed he was doing the right thing by setting the record straight. But did anyone applaud the candidate's candor? No - on the contrary, reporters in Canberra immediately ran with further details of Cameron's private life, unleashing stories they'd been sitting on for years...
...Bombs aren't the only weapons Abu Sayyaf uses. "They are setting up an urban assassination squad called Fisabillilah, or 'The Path of God,'" says Kit Colliers of the Australian National University in Canberra, who has written a detailed report on Islamic militancy and terrorism in the Philippines for the International Crisis Group. Security officials in Manila say half a dozen alleged Abu Sayyaf operatives arrested in June for possession of materials for explosives were members of the squad. "Thank God we got them before the President's inauguration," says outgoing Defense Secretary Eduardo Ermita, referring to Arroyo's swearing...
...BOOKS: True crime in Canberra...
...Cinque is dead. It's the leitmotif and only real truth in Helen Garner's true-crime account, Joe Cinque's Consolation (Picador; 328 pages). He was the good-natured son of Italian migrants who moved from Newcastle to Canberra to live with his sexy law- student girlfriend. She is Anu Singh, the indulged daughter of Sydney doctors whose eating disorders and Prozac popping saw her charge reduced to manslaughter, and who walked away with four years in jail and a masters' degree in criminology. A decade ago, in The First Stone, Garner lifted the lid off a famous sexual...