As half-time approached, Peter McDonald looped a header towards Celtic keeper Fraser Forster that cleared the bar, then a Grainger corner failed to test the visitors' defence.

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"Administrative capitals are normally a feature of federation, such as in Brazil, Australia and the US, " says Professor Peter McDonald of the Australian National University, a well-known demographer and long-time Canberra resident.

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Christopher McDonald also is elegant cool as McAlary's lawyer, and Peter Gerety is having entirely too much drunken fun onstage.

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