AS the red carpet is rolled up and the last shattered corflute of champagne is swept into recycling landfill, KEEPING UP THE ACT reflects on this year’s winners of the ACT-cademy Awards…
“Sometimes there are some jobs you wish you hadn’t seen,” firefighter Des Falconer told LILY PASS. But he treasures every minute of his 40 years of service. Des reluctantly retires this week.
"The view is as spectacular as the food, and we worshipped every dish." Dining reviewer WENDY JOHNSON reports from a restaurant in Narooma she describes as "amazing".
"The ACT government is obviously conscious of the fact that when it comes to locking up Aboriginal peoples, we Canberrans are in a class of our own," writes columnist JON STANHOPE.
HARDY Scottish settlers built a tiny kirk on the Limestone Plains in 1873. Now a city has grown around an enlarged St Ninians at Lyneham and the church is about to celebrate its sesquicentenary. LILY PASS reports…
Neighbours of Flora Place in Palmerston have spent the last five months fighting to have their street cleaned up of a dirty, dumped mattress and household rubbish, reports LILY PASS.
"This was close to the most intense fire activity ever recorded. We saw a black sky in the afternoon, we saw pyrogenic lightning and we saw black hail." RICK McRAE was at the centre of the fight against the terrible bushfire of 2003.
AUSTRALIANS are rejecting the throwaway culture, instead snapping up sustainable options, according to new research that's found consumers are increasingly looking for more environmentally conscious shopping options.
CANBERRA author Jack Heath published his first book at just 19, now more than 40 books and 18 years later, his newest novel, “Headcase”, has hit the shelves.
"The Liberals’ reverse course regarding the tram is not a betrayal as Minister Steel calls it. The betrayal of the public happened in 2012," writes PROF BEATRICE BODART-BAILEY.