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Arts / Children’s sanctuary gives kids a place to play

CANBERRA kids can feel safe while enjoying themselves this weekend at the National Multicultural Festival’s “Children’s Sanctuary”. The sanctuary will be located close to the heart of the festival at Civic Library on Saturday and […]

Coins celebrate 60 years of ‘Mr Squiggle’

THE Royal Australian Mint is commemorating 60 years of “Mr Squiggle” with the release of limited edition coins in Woolworths supermarkets from today (February 13). Four $2 coin designs, with one released each week, have […]

Outdoors at the new Kambri Precinct. Photo: ANU

ANU unveils its new ‘meeting place’

“YOU ain’t see nothin’ yet,” ANU Chancellor Gareth Evans proclaimed this morning (February 11) at the official unveiling of the new $260 million “Kambri” precinct at the university, held in the new “Manning Clark Hall”. […]

Sharon Bulkeley with flag designs, top right, the current flag, designed by Ivo Ostyn

Gallery puts ACT flag under the spotlight

“THERE’S a lot more going on behind-the-scenes that you would imagine,” social history curator at the Canberra Museum and Gallery, Sharon Bulkeley, told “CityNews” today (February 8) as she walked us through an exhibition opening […]

Healthy Eating / Resolve to change your food environment

IN Australia we live in an “obesogenic society”. The structure of our food systems and lifestyles make it very easy to gain weight and very difficult to lose weight. For example, modern work environments require […]

Glen Turner and Alun Jones. Photo by ANA STUART

Gavel / Local greats guide the next generation

SPEND more than 10 minutes talking to former Canberra tennis player Alun Jones and local hockey legend Glenn Turner and you get the impression they derive as much pleasure from the success of those in […]

The picturesque Queanbeyan District Hospital… scene of the demise of Marion Dunlop in January, 1919. Was she a victim of Spanish Flu?

Yesterdays / Goodbye war, hello plague… the hell of Spanish Flu

Goodbye war, hello plague… “Yesterdays” columnist NICHOLE OVERALL recalls the hell of Spanish Flu.

2019 $5 Plated Silver Proof Coin, Lesser Bilby

Arts / New coins feature extinct Aussie animals

THE Royal Australian Mint has launched new black nickel and selective gold plated coins featuring native Australian animals, which will preview at this year’s Berlin World Money Fair. Mint CEO Ross MacDiarmid said the series […]

‘Cavs’ to host season finale

THE Canberra Cavalry will host the season finale at MIT Ballpark in Narrabundah this weekend after securing a spot in the Australian Baseball League playoffs by winning two games in Brisbane last weekend. The season […]

Anu and Firebrace headline Multicultural Festival

HIGH-profile Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander performers Christine Anu and Isaiah Firebrace will headline the National Multicultural Festival, announced Multicultural Affairs Minister Chris Steel today (Tuesday, January 15). He also said that celebrity chef Mark […]

Healthy Drinking / Unwind, enjoy a drink, but…

Dietician CLARE WOLSKI says a lot of the nutritional focus at Christmas goes to what we are eating but, what about what we drink? Can we keep a lid on the Christmas calories just by […]

Arts / Cavs join Kulture Break in music venture

CANBERRA Cavalry and Kulture Break have formed a partnership which will see singers and musicians from the Canberra-based youth charity services provider perform on stage in the second annual Cavalry “Starlite” concert series. The performers […]

Summit set to save Australia’s memories

A NATIONAL summit meeting at Canberra Museum and Gallery today (December 4) has been convened by the UNESCO Australian Memory of the World Program. The summit involves librarians, archivists, museum curators, historians, public policy makers […]

Howard Library opens in Canberra

FORMER Prime Minister John Howard and members of his family are in town today (December 4) for the opening of the new “Howard Library” at Old Parliament House. An initiative of UNSW Canberra, the library, […]

Political Cartoonist of the Year Matt Golding

Arts / MoAD goes mad with cartoon show

THERE were exceedingly strange things going on at the Museum of Australian Democracy at old Parliament House this morning (November 16) with the launch by director, Daryl Karp, of its political cartoon show, “Behind the […]

Art exhibition shows a tonne of hope

TUGGERANONG Arts Centre’s hugely successful “Messengers” program is turning 18 and it’ll be celebrating with a collection of student work today (November 15). Messengers is an arts-based early support program aimed at improving the mental […]

Yesterdays / A Royal toast to the teetotalling King O’Malley

IT was a teetotalling Canberra advocate who proved himself something of an enemy of its people but one of the greatest of friends to Queanbeyan and, in a spectacular fail, its pubs. The preposterously named […]

Health / Yoga, Pilates, whatever… it’s all exercise to me!

“You are supposed to clear your mind of everything but I can’t do that and am perfectly relaxed having a good think about important things such as will there be any pork fillet left at […]

AFP Forensics and Data Centre. Photography by Christopher Frederick Jones

Canberra architects build their way to national awards

THE revamped Monaro Mall at the Canberra Centre was one of only three Canberra buildings awarded at the Australian Institute of Architects’ National Architecture Awards in Melbourne last night (November 1). Designed by Universal Design Studio […]