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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Aug 10, 1971
Page
4
Canberra Jazz Club held its second Syrrhand Ball with about 400 attendees. Don Burroey quartet and Gest Olmore Jazz Band powered the lively evening, as musicians from Sydney and Melbourne impressed patrons. The event showcased a burgeoning modern jazz scene and announced lineup shifts for local ensembles.
Review of a season presented by Malan Embassy and Canberra Film Society at the Playhouse features Bertolucci’s fascist study The Conformist and comments on other titles including The Gospel According to St Matthew. The piece notes Sydney and Melbourne screenings and hints at policy changes for the Center Cinema Friday shows.
An exhibition of Asmat shields drums and carvings from West Irian will travel to Canberra, opening next Sunday at the Alin Sculpture Gallery in Narrabundah. Curated materials trace Asmat craft to West New Guinea and feature Balinese miniature pieces and context about Michael Rockefeller’s expeditions.
A dense, fragmented listing of daytime and evening programs including Sesame Street, News Headlines, Play School, The Marriage Game, Andy Pandy, Petticoat Junction, Zorro, and Canberran News items. It catalogs show times, channels, and assorted children's programs, dramas, and news segments across a broad broadcast day.
Fragmented OCR shows partial TV schedule items including mention of a show with Peter, weather, and news segments. Names and times are garbled. readable bits reference channels, a 4 30 start, and a “Manning Show” with no clear context or complete entities.
A mosaic of brief items from Melbourne News and Associated services lists stations, shows, and events. Mentions include Christian news, hospital notes, weather forecasts, and various program titles and times across multiple outlets in a busy newscycle.
A garbled OCR weather brief fragment appears with scattered names places and terms. The readable parts mention weather related words and partial phrases, but no coherent forecast location date or specifics are extractable.
District radio and TV stations report the incumbent’s narrow victory in a local race with results tallied in the late hours. Officials credited turnout from the city and surrounding areas for the Rebty Slaw result.
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