Digital edition February 3
"IT'S this pathetic attachment to 'growth' as the economic miracle-maker that Barr is using to destroy the quality of life that made living here such a pleasure." Why columnist ROBERT MACKLIN is over the ACT government.
Canberra City News
INDIGENOUS leader JULIE TONGS writes that we have to face the awful truth – the worst-performing government in Australia, when it comes to locking up Aboriginal peoples, is the ACT government. And enough is enough.
CANBERRA could be home to what is being touted as a “world first” village designed specifically for people with dementia. BELINDA STRAHORN has the story on Page 8.
WITH the best spring in years and rain still tipping down through summer, gardening writer CEDRIC BRYANT says it's little wonder that many plants flowering at the wrong time are seriously confused.
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Digital edition December 24
WE'VE got the best of everything this week… top website stories, top arts events, top restaurants, all very top of the pops plus a jumbo crossword! Welcome to the holiday edition…
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Digital edition November 26
Boss of the Mint, Ross MacDiarmid, reckons covid has got people back using cash. “Having a certain amount of money in your pocket a week means once it's gone, it's gone; so people are using cash as a means of managing their finances,” he tells BELLE STRAHORN.
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Digital edition November 19
TWO-time ACT Business Woman of the Year Louise Curtis' life has hit rock bottom in the space of four years, the victim of what she calls a “fake” investigation by Access Canberra, reports DANIELLE NOHRA.
WENDY MACKLIN says isolation is causing people to become quite weird especially when her friend Judy whispered into the phone: “And do you know what? I haven’t worn a bra for a week!”
IN a deft piece of whimsy, Canberra academic CLIVE WILLIAMS sees a lot of upside in the downside of self-isolation, likening it to being retired without feeling obliged to have your time taken up volunteering for good causes.
ARTIST Annette Boyd lives her life in knots. She teaches macrame, which appears to be enjoying a resurgence. “The simple act of knot tying calms you, it grounds you, it makes you forget everything," she says.
ROBERT MACKLIN has discovered a former Australian Army officer discreetly serving time among segregated pedophiles in the ACT prison. He was tried in secret, the Federal government changed his name and erased his identity. How could this happen in Australia?
Columnist PAUL COSTIGAN takes no prisoners in his dismissal of the NCS’s "stupid suggestion” to remove and replace Commonwealth Bridge.
A TERMITE walks into a bar and says… sorry, you'll have to pick up the punchline from our witty wine writer RICHARD CALVER's popular column on Page 24.
READERS continue to ask gardening writer CEDRIC BRYANT for suggestions on hardy shrubs that provide colour in late autumn months and through the winter. He's got some this week.
IAN MEIKLE, editor, here: I wanted to put a special word in for this cracking Christmas edition, brimming with great reading and a big burst of PAUL DORIN's lovely Santa cartoons. I can't resist them!
"If the Labor Party was serious about reducing gambling harm from poker machines it wouldn’t own and operate 489 of them." JON STANHOPE sees hypocrisy in Labor's stance on 'gambling harm'.
Grey Advertising’s industry newsletter “Eye on the Media” reports the top 20 programs, in Canberra,…
Open Gardens HERE’S the chance to explore a series of courtyard gardens in the upmarket…
THE National Gallery of Australia has acquired Hans Heysen's Morning light (1913), through the bequest…
