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Sally Pryor

Sally Pryor

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Free tickets and a shuttle bus: recommendations for what, exactly?

Canberra is, in so many ways, an unknowable city. $0/ (min cost $0) Login or signup to continue reading In other ways, it is a city so bureaucratic...

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Canberra Times

Sally Pryor

It's my misery too! Traffic woes on the best weekend of the year

There's a very specific kind of misery that accompanies the dawning realisation that your best-laid plans are exactly the same as everyone else's. ...

12.03.2024 9

Canberra Times

Sally Pryor

It's the bold and brave tree we never knew we wanted. Because we don't

It's hard to imagine there was ever a time in which Canberrans desperately wanted a community Christmas tree that didn't really resemble a Christmas...

04.12.2023 5

Canberra Times

Sally Pryor

French resistance: the NGA gets gauche with Gauguin

As French post-impressionists go, you could do much worse than Paul Gauguin. The country landscapes, those exotic Tahitian girls - the next big...

24.11.2023 10

Canberra Times

Sally Pryor

Too many of our suburb names are boring. Here's how we could do better

Three former chief ministers reckon we deserve to know more about how our suburbs are named. But let's be honest: lots of our suburb names have...

15.11.2023 10

Canberra Times

Sally Pryor

Was Maya Rudolph at the lake?

There was a minor flurry in the newsroom on Thursday afternoon when someone mentioned that his wife said she saw the American actor/comedian Maya...

04.11.2023 10

Canberra Times

Sally Pryor

No matter how awful things are, we shouldn't look away from the headlines

Earlier this week, I was driving to a literary event, with the news on, as always. Among the headlines was an update of the latest mass shooting in...

27.10.2023 5

The Examiner

Sally Pryor

No matter how awful things are, we shouldn't look away from the headlines

Earlier this week, I was driving to a literary event, with the news on, as always. Among the headlines was an update of the latest mass shooting in...

27.10.2023 5

Canberra Times

Sally Pryor

The definitive top 11 openings that put Canberra on the map

It's just two days until the grand opening of Canberra's first Uniqlo store. It's been a long time coming, and the anticipation has us reminiscing...

25.10.2023 6

Canberra Times

Sally Pryor

The definitive top 10 openings that put Canberra on the map

It's just two days until the grand opening of Canberra's first Uniqlo store. It's been a long time coming, and the anticipation has us reminiscing...

24.10.2023 6

Canberra Times

Sally Pryor

Finding myself in Beckham-land

I never, in a million years, thought I would ever find myself relating to Victoria Beckham. Nor, for that matter, could I have ever anticipated...

21.10.2023 6

Canberra Times

Sally Pryor

Plea from the heart: walking in two worlds in Australia's Red Centre

The sun was high as we drove down the unsealed Sandover Highway north of Alice Springs. A goanna scurried in front of the bus, a dingo skulked into...

13.10.2023 5

Canberra Times

Sally Pryor

Jeans? Geez. Talk about a far cry from appropriate

"Make sure you take some tissues," said a friend in the lead-up. "You'll be needing them." This friend, married long ago to a federal minister, had...

06.10.2023 7

Canberra Times

Sally Pryor

The heartbreak of pink magnolias

One of the strangest things about moving into a house that had been a long-term family home is feeling the ghosts of the previous owners all around...

23.09.2023 5

Canberra Times

Sally Pryor

The eyesores in Civic that could be spectacular once more

How do you solve a problem like the Sydney and Melbourne Buildings? If you're a Canberra lifer like me, you may find yourself trying your darndest to...

18.09.2023 10

Canberra Times

Sally Pryor

It began as an experiment, but this bilingual school is a roaring success

It could have been the most spectacular culture clash of all time. And yet Telopea Park School, Canberra's oldest public school and one of the only...

08.09.2023 5

Canberra Times

Sally Pryor

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