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Reporter KATHRYN VUKOVLJAK discovers that Queanbey

Reporter KATHRYN VUKOVLJAK discovers that Queanbeyan author, poet and rapper Omar Musa has been using the quiet time of covid to build his talents in gardening and woodcuts. Read the cover story at citynews.com.au

Cover 📸 by @hollytreadawayphotographer

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Reporter KATHRYN VUKOVLJAK speaks to Filipina-Aust

Reporter KATHRYN VUKOVLJAK speaks to Filipina-Australian author Merlinda Bobis about her latest book of short stories, "The Kindness of Birds". 🐤 Read the story at citynews.com.au

📸 by Kathryn Vukovljak.

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Everyone has a public-toilet story… “WE all u

Everyone has a public-toilet story…

“WE all use them. Everyone has a public-toilet story,” Churchill Fellowship recipient and public-toilet enthusiast Katherine Webber tells reporter DANIELLE NOHRA. “If we’re lucky we can laugh about it, but for some people they can’t laugh about it because there can be really serious consequences for not being able to access a toilet.”

PASSIONATE about how people access public spaces, Katherine Webber looked at the lack of public toilets in community spaces in Australia as part of her Churchill Fellowship, which saw her on a global tour in 2019 to study how other countries manage public “loos”.

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Reporter BELINDA STRAHORN follows the amazing jour

Reporter BELINDA STRAHORN follows the amazing journey of a prayer book that journeyed to World War 1’s Western Front; two decades later it comforted a prisoner of the Japanese and ended up in the hands of a soldier bound for Vietnam.

Bookbinder Warren Taylor with the prayer book, which he took to fight in Vietnam. Photo: Belinda Strahorn

https://citynews.com.au/2021/onward-christian-soldiers-and-their-prayer-book/

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🚻TOILET TALK🚻 In the latest edition of "Cit

🚻TOILET TALK🚻

In the latest edition of "CityNews", reporter DANIELLE NOHRA takes the lid off the state of Canberra's public toilets and discovers unhappy community groups demanding the ACT government explain why the loos are disappearing, being privatised or excluded from neighbourhood shops. 🚽

Have you ever been in a situation where you've needed to go to the loo but there's been no toilet around?! Send your story to editor@citynews.com.au

Read it now at citynews.com.au

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