Christmas Dose of Dorin
Cartoonist PAUL DORIN turns his eye to the festive season. Today's it all about shopping.
Canberra culture
PAUL DORIN bemoans the passing of the dentist's friend – Fantales.
A community exhibition of objects and stories from Canberra senior citizens went on show for just four hours on Tuesday at Greenway Views by LDK.
Artists, their subjects, health workers and politicians converged on Canberra Museum and Gallery this morning for the opening of a new art exhibition dedicated to the commitment of workers on the frontlines of the ACT’s COVID-19 response.
Canberra culture
Small expression of a big hope
A large mural featuring Australia’s yellow-tailed cockatoo was quietly unveiled yesterday at Endeavour House building in Manuka.
Canberra culture
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
Sketch / I’ve gone completely to the dogs
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...
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.
At its 60th anniversary, "Yesterdays" columnist NICHOLE OVERALL shares some of the social and physical history of the Harmonie-German Club.
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.
