A group of distinguished Canberrans is pleading for commitment from the Australian government to do everything it can to halt what is, with each passing day, more unmistakably a genocide in Gaza. Their letter is on Page 11.
Last year, author Andra Putnis published a book about the astonishing lives of her Latvian grandmothers. Next month she is to "complete the circle". In his series of stories of remarkable Canberrans, DAVID TURNBULL explains why.
A group of distinguished Canberrans is pleading for commitment from the Australian government to do everything it can to halt what is with each passing day, more unmistakably a genocide in Gaza.
A 39-year-old man refused to provide a blood alcohol sample and spat at police after he was arrested following a domestic disturbance in Torrens on Sunday evening.
Police dogs sniffed out a man – who was subject to a good behaviour order – hiding in bushes after the stolen dirt bike he was riding was dumped in Oxley on Saturday night.
A 33-year-old police student at the NSW Police Academy in Goulburn has been stood down and his professional suitability is under review after apparently driving into the academy's boom gate just after midnight on Saturday.