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Canberra Today 17°/20° | Friday, March 29, 2024 | Digital Edition | Crossword & Sudoku

July: Greens back Greenpeace, Biggzy backs breakfast

THANKS to the Kanga Cup, Canberra’s winter comes to life with the influx of teams and tourists from across Australia.

Be active, keep fit and have a go. Across the ACT, a new Active Kids Challenge encourages children to be physically active for at least 60 minutes a day. For Sharon Wadey, sports can mean much more. The tae kwon do instructor starts Tiny Taeks for young kids by teaching them tae kwon do combined with an anti-bullying message, which she believes can create strong self-esteem and confidence.

Virginia Haussegger... “Issues of inequality have always been at the forefront of my vision... I just have a strong sense of social justice, it’s embedded in me.” Photo by Silas Brown

Save the Children will be ABC news anchor Virginia Haussegger’s new mission. After 25 years in journalism, Virginia takes on a new role as the patron for Save the Children’s ACT branch. The local Mix 106.3 has got a new face too, Carla “Biggzy” Bignasca. To host a breakfast radio show has been a dream come true for the blunt Biggzy, who defines her job as to evoke “any emotion that can be love or hate”.

Most women may have sort of love and hate emotions towards their wardrobe, where they leave so much stuff they love but don’t wear any more. Canberra’s first Clothing Exchange urges people to get a new wardrobe, by swapping clothes.

The Greens have gone far beyond swapping ideas with Greenpeace. They push their perspective to the extreme by endorsing the Greenpeace raid against the CSIRO GM crops research.

At least we have one politician thinking in the long term. In her new job only eight weeks, Chief Minister Katy Gallagher finds her “gang of four” not “sustainable”, and hints she needs a fifth minister for her cabinet, to “manage in the long term”.

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