HEAD of the ANU’s Space Plasma, Power and Propulsion Laboratory Christine Charles reckons the cost of fuel could be among the reasons humans haven’t been back to the moon in 50 years. But she’s working on some alternatives, reports DANIELLE NOHRA.
IAN MEIKLE, "CityNews" editor, here: despite knowing our craft reviewer Meredith Hinchliffe for decades, it took HELEN MUSA's story this week for me to learn of Meredith's astonishing donations to CMAG. Now the whole town will know about our model philanthropist.
"ORGANISATIONS have been taken hostage, metaphorically, by the ACT government and, fearing retribution, choose silence and subservience over openness and honesty," growls JON STANHOPE on Page 6.
THE bravery of breast-cancer survivor JOANNE BURCH and the artistry of photographer ANDREW CAMPBELL have conspired to create a compelling cover of confronting beauty.
Mum in the City columnist SONYA FLADUN raises a cup of hot chocolate to salute the hardy souls she calls winter's unsung heroes.
"CANBERRA is a city of great beauty. It must not be blighted by overhead wires," writes MICHAEL MOORE in a plea to get the light rail right.
“NEVER waste a crisis,” is the ethos of winemaker Ken Helm. And illustrated perfectly by his Murrumbateman winery's prize-winning rise from the devastating frost of October, 2014, which wiped out 85 per cent of his estate grapes. The story's in CANBERRA CONFIDENTIAL.
OVER recent years we have helped promote Kartika Medcraft's "Sweet ChariTea" events, which have raised thousands for the paediatric unit at Canberra Hospital. And each year, her ill son Sebastian seemed to be facing an increasingly gloomier future. But not now. Our cover boy's luck is changing. BELLE GARFATH took the lovely photo.
THE ignorant Pokémon players of the world are united in their thanks of the Canberra Liberals’ uncaring approach to electoral law and simple distances. How is this possible? JOHN GRIFFITHS has the strangest of explanations.
COLUMNIST JOHN GRIFFITHS reckons Defence has got it so wrong with its choice of the French submarine because “they’ve gone for the design that doesn’t disappoint anyone, because it doesn’t actually exist and cannot exist”.
Horticulturist CEDRIC BRYANT says it’s time to put Canberra’s neglected street trees first by pruning the Arboretum cash. It’s a compelling argument.
