Awards galore for ACT Children’s Week
IT’S ACT Children’s Week until Sunday, October 31, good cause for a week-long celebration, writes HELEN MUSA.
Canberra culture
SARAH MILNE came to Canberra petless but after three years it's all dogs, dogs, dogs!
"My son has been called a 'grumpy old man' in jest, which upset him greatly. Clearly the kid who called him that hadn't met his dad or grandad yet! " writes "Mummy" columnist KATE MEIKLE.
“Never let me make another one of these f**king cakes,” is how KATE MEIKLE began a text message conversation with her friend. It's birthday cake baking time again...
Canberra culture
Feisty and fond memories from Dawn of Canberra
ONE of Canberra’s oldest residents identifies the “concreting” of Canberra as her greatest sadness as she reflects on a near 100-year association with the city.
Canberra culture
The club of carpenters keeps building on its future
At its 60th anniversary, "Yesterdays" columnist NICHOLE OVERALL shares some of the social and physical history of the Harmonie-German Club.
Canberra culture
Ground-breaking ceremony for new Hindu temple
Around 1,000 Canberrans braved freezing temperatures on Saturday (June 5) to attend a ground-breaking ceremony, or “Bhumi Puja”, for a new Hindu temple and community facility in Moncrieff.
There's something in the “apple-a-day” adage – founder of Beltana Grange Orchard in Pialligo, Bert Hauptmann has just turned 99 and says he still loves apples as much as when he was a boy.
"Aisle 2 carries the innocuous signage of 'Confectionery', 'Crisps' and 'Soft Drinks' but should be labelled, 'High Cholesterol', 'Morbid Obesity' and 'Heart Attack', says SARA MILNE
THE Alliance Française has driven its Canberra CEO to drink. The local arm of the worldwide organisation representing French culture is producing its own red wine for the first time this year.
From the mouths of babes... cartoonist PAUL DORIN looks at Mother's Day.
Cartoonist PAUL DORIN has been wondering where those Easter-egg wrappers some from...
Sheikh Mujib had declared independence of Bangladesh in the early hours of March 26, 1971, so very early this morning, a formal flag hoisting ceremony took place on City Walk in Civic, writes HELEN MUSA.
BEFORE the days of a child-protection system, a group of devoted Franciscan nuns raised enough money to build six modest cottages on a sheep paddock in Narrabundah. The cottages became temporary homes for Canberra kids in crisis, and thus Marymead was born.
"When Canberra city needs every piece of biodiversity and green infrastructure to deal with the coming climate crisis, how on earth did anyone at the War Memorial think it was okay to let the bulldozers loose on so many trees. In the end this could be 100 or more trees that will go," writes "Canberra Matters" columnist PAUL COSTIGAN.
Photos of the Canberra birthday Balloon Spectacular festival over Lake Burley Griffin by ANDREW CAMPBELL
Canberra lit up last night (February 25), a day ahead of the official launch of Enlighten 2021 this evening.
Rain, hail or shine, Canberra language lovers will be out in force this Sunday, February 21, to mark the UNESCO-designated International Mother Language Day with a lakeside language walk, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
The National Multicultural Festival will be back in 2022 for its 25th anniversary celebrations.
