Grattan / Calling Scott Morrison ‘Santa’ is defamatory

THOSE maddening Nationals, who won’t stay in their place! Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack had no sooner debuted as acting prime minister than he dubbed the Treasurer “Scott ‘Santa Claus’ Morrison”, who would be “announcing […]

The former Oaks inn c1838 at the Oaks Estate. Photo from the book “Queanbeyan - City of Champions”.

Yesterdays / Bones and murder most grisly at Sawpit Gully

THE skeleton was believed to be 150 years old and since the early 1840s it had lain unknown and undisturbed beneath the homes, businesses and parks that grew above and around it. When unexpectedly unearthed […]

Dining / Little cafe with a big view

“Two of us ordered the sweet potato and beetroot fritters, an interesting combination of flavours and not too sweet,” writes food reviewer WENDY JOHNSON

Arts / Around the galleries

Arts editor HELEN MUSA shares Canberra’s newest gallery openings

11-year-old girl missing since Saturday

POLICE are seeking the public’s help to locate 11-year-old girl Lilly Irvine, who has been missing since Saturday. She was last seen in Narrabundah at about 4pm on April 14.Lilly is described as Caucasian in […]

Cartoon / Dose of Dorin

Shortis and Simpson… marking the 50th anniversary of The Beatles’ "White" album. Photo by Sabine Friedrich

Arts in the City / It’ll be all ‘White’ on the night

IN 1968 Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King were assassinated and The Beatles released “Hey Jude” and “Lady Madonna”. Shortis and Simpson will bring it all to life to mark the 50th anniversary of The […]

Paul Blackwell in the "Aspirations of Daise Morrow"... "The audience will get to be people at the funeral – it's all about a funeral," he says.

Arts / New aspirations for departed Daise Morrow

WHEN the late Canberra theatre director Ralph Wilson put on a short season of Patrick White plays some years ago, unexpected hordes turned up to see works by our own Nobel Laureate. Staff at the […]

'Reimagine' editor and director of policy and development at the Youth Coalition of the ACT, Hannah Watts.

Magazine urges readers to ‘reimagine’ youth homelessness

CLICHED images of homelessness, such as children sleeping in alleyways, obscure the scale of youth homelessness because it’s a much broader issue, says Youth Coalition of the ACT executive director Justin Barker. A new magazine to […]

Letters / Minister rejects Health link claim

ON March 23 I was pleased to announce, with Minister Rattenbury, that the ACT Health directorate would become two organisations later in 2018, with one organisation responsible for clinical operations and a second responsible for […]

Stanhope / Has Labor turned its back on Canberra’s battlers?

“Andrew, Shane, Yvette and the rest have ordained that it’s a south-facing, two-bedroom flat on the tenth floor for those aspiring homeowners who used to be Labor’s traditional base,” writes JON STANHOPE

Mark Opitz in the ANU Recording Studio. Photo by Lannon Harley

Arts / Opitz honoured with prestigious fellowship

MULTI-award winning record producer Mark Opitz was honoured to receive the Australian National University’s HC Coombs Creative Arts Fellowship for 2018. Mr Optiz, known for creating the sound behind Australia’s greatest bands like INXS, The […]

Gavel / The Games people play

Sports broadcaster TIM GAVEL is just back from covering the Commonwealth Games for the ABC on the Gold Coast and has an answer for anyone who thinks we could stage them in Canberra

Gardening / Conifers get some good press

CONIFERS are among the oldest living plants in the world. For example, 4500-year-old specimens of the ancient Bristlecone Pine, Pinus longaeva, battle the elements in the 3000-metre-high White Mountains of California. Conifers can include evergreen […]

Grattan / Greens want cannabis to be made legal

THE Greens say cannabis should be legalised and sold in plain packaging, with its wholesale distribution monopolised by a new government agency. The controversial policy, released by Greens leader Richard Di Natale on Monday, would […]

Arts / Paintings pay tribute to Canberra’s heritage

AS the leaves turn, it’s time for the annual Artists Society of Canberra and the ACT Catchment Group’s art competition, which opened in the Fitters’ Workshop on Friday (April 13) by Minister for the Environment […]

‘Brazen’ thieves find Fadden an easy target

POLICE are reminding Canberrans to lock their cars and houses after four vehicles and one house in Fadden was targeted by thieves. In the early hours of Monday, April 16, a residence in Appel Crescent, […]

Grumpy / Car shows get the shove

Car enthusiast NASIS ELLIS is grumpy about the number of events moving out of the Parliamentary Triangle because, he says, the NCA wants nothing to do with car clubs in the ACT