A NEW service being rolled out by the ACT government aims to keep older Canberrans out of hospital. The Geriatric Rapid Acute Care Evaluation (GRACE) Service provides care to unwell Canberrans in residential aged care […]

Letters / Let’s call out all bad behaviour
I FEEL compelled to respond to Kate Meikle’s “Calling out bad ‘good blokes’” column (CN, February 14). If we’re going to generalise about the woes of one half of the population, then let’s be a […]
‘GRACE’ keeps older Canberrans out of hospital
A NEW service being rolled out by the ACT government aims to keep older Canberrans out of hospital. The Geriatric Rapid Acute Care Evaluation (GRACE) Service provides care to unwell Canberrans in residential aged care […]

Cartoon / Dose of Dorin

Taxi drivers rally for compensation
UNHAPPY Canberra taxi plate owners and drivers rallied outside of the Legislative Assembly today (February 19), where they demanded $76,000,000 from the ACT government. Chairman of ACT Taxi Plate Owners Association (ACTTPOA) Petar Ivanovski says ACT and interstate families […]

‘Big changes’ protect ACT school kids
THE ACT government is making “big” legislative changes to the education system, according to Education Minister Yvette Berry. Following the “Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse” and the Glanfield Review, the ACT […]

Committee looks into Canberra’s high fuel prices
IT’s not clear why Canberrans are spending significantly more on petrol than other parts of Australia, says Tara Cheyne who is the chair of a new committee investigating fuel prices. The ACT Legislative Assembly passed […]

Arts / ‘Powerful’ photo wins portrait prize
PERTH photographer Elizabeth Looker has won the Art Handlers’ Award for this year’s National Photographic Portrait Prize. Awarded for her portrait “A calm so deep”, Looker said her interest when photographing her subject Dorotea was […]

Gardening / Of beetles, elms and ash trees
MORE than 60 million Dutch elm trees have died over the past century, but in Australia we are fortunate to not have the disease here. It was first identified by a Dutch botanist and spread […]

Arts in the City / The funny side of senior moments
Among arts editor HELEN MUSA’s weekly sweep of the arts in Canberra is news of a comedy looking at the funny side of senior moments

Alison has the answer when relationships go wrong
EVERYONE has relationships go sour from time to time, says Relationships Australia’s new Canberra and Region CEO Alison Brook. “You might have a dispute with a supervisor at work or there might be conflict within […]

‘State actor’ hacks networks of major political parties
“A SOPHISTICATED state actor” has hacked the networks of the major political parties, Prime Minister Scott Morrison has told Federal Parliament. Recently the Parliament House network was disrupted, and the intrusion into the parties’ networks […]

Grattan / Labor’s lead cut in latest Ipsos poll
THE government has substantially narrowed the two-party gap in the Ipsos poll – it now trails Labor by just 49-51 per cent, compared with 46-54 per cent in December. The poll, reported in the “Australian […]

Star goes public on ‘Gypsy’ dumping
AS news spread of The Q’s decision to drop the planned April-May production of “Gypsy” with Geraldine Turner, both the director and the star of the show have gone public on Facebook, while the theatre […]

New Acton gets its supermarket back
AFTER 12 months, the space occupied by a grocery store and cafe at 21-23 Marcus Clarke Street, New Acton, has finally been leased. The previous 400 square metres have been divided and today a new […]

Review / All Adhoc and one of their best
Music / “Il Giardino d’Amore – The Garden of Love by Scarlatti. Adhoc Baroque. At St Paul’s Church, Manuka, February 17. Reviewed by ROB KENNEDY.

Pokie total falls as clubs surrender licences
THE maximum number of gaming machines that can be operated in the ACT has been reduced to 4012 after clubs voluntarily surrendered or forfeited through trading 934 gaming machine authorisations. The reduction of electronic gaming […]

Welsh / Apocalypse now… putting a spin on the dust storm
LAST week’s dust storm of biblical proportions blanketing Canberra, bringing down power lines and shrouding our iconic sites, inspired many to become apocalyptic and opportunistically link it to climate change. Journalist Quentin Dempster tweeted: “Apocalypse […]

Cartoon / Dose of Dorin
Fyshwick grass fire extinguished
A GRASS fire burning at the intersection of Newcastle Street and Hindmarsh Drive in Fyshwick has been extinguished. ACT Fire and Rescue and the ACT Rural Fire Service responded to the emergency with about 400 […]

Socials / At the Canberra Symphony Orchestra’s fundraising dinner, Acton
Photos by Daniel Abroguena