Cartoon / Dose of Dorin
They're not happy in the bush with Labor's immigration changes, says cartoonist PAUL DORIN.
- Opinion
- Politics
Burke’s migration plan leaves Labor wedged
Six weeks after aborting his first attempt, Tony Burke has finally unveiled Labor’s migration overhaul – only to leave the government vulnerable from both sides of the debate, writes political columnist MICHELLE GRATTAN.
- Lifestyle
STEP into a local native treasure
Forest 20 at the National Arboretum offers a colourful showcase of Southern Tablelands plants, wildlife and landscapes, writes BILL HANDKE.
- Arts & Entertainment
‘Odd’ king’s tale explores the nature of history
ANNA CREER reviews two new novels of historical fiction, one set in present and medieval times, the other in World War I.
- Opinion
Time to end the farce of a wrongful conviction
"In Tasmania the game of 'cover up' is played with more intensity than in Canberra – publishers get calls threatening ruinous defamation and journalists get fed error-ridden press releases," writes legal columnist HUGH SELBY.
- Lifestyle
Can statins help you age more healthily?
Millions of Australians take statins to prevent heart attacks and strokes. Medicine experts examine whether the widely used drugs could have benefits beyond heart health.
- Lifestyle
Funky spot with pretty special food
Next to Canberra Theatre, in Constitution Place, is a funky restaurant with groovy artwork, pretty special food and knowledgeable staff, writes dining reviewer WENDY JOHNSON.
- Opinion
Greens gambling tax call still doesn’t add up
"The Greens had an opportunity to demonstrate that their concern about the ACT's finances was serious enough to sit across the table from people they disagreed with and find common ground. And they chose not to," writes GWYN REES.
- Opinion
Cartoon: Dose of Dorin
Cartoonist PAUL DORIN says he draws with AI – that is, "arty intelligence".
News
Australia mourns as Israeli ambassador visits Bondi
As the Jewish community mourns the victims of the Bondi Beach terror attack Israel's ambassador has visited the site, as Australia considers tighter gun laws.
Update
‘Guilty’: mushroom cook convicted of triple murder
Mushroom cook Erin Patterson intentionally poisoned four members of her estranged husband's family, a jury has found after a week of deliberations.
News
Coroner finds cop who shot indigenous teen a racist
A coroner has found the death of a 19-year-old Warlpiri-Luritja man in a remote community was avoidable, and the former police officer who shot him was racist.
Update
Few clues to motive in ‘horrifying’ Bondi rampage
NSW Premier Chris Minns says women were targeted in the Bondi Junction mass stabbing but lengthy inquiries to come may never conclusively find a motive.
Update
‘Congratulations!’ AI tells user mulling assisted death
A senior Liberal MP has recalled the troubling encounter his terminally ill constituent had with an AI chatbot during an inquiry into the emergent technology.
Migration shift a ‘terrible signal’ for luring talent
NSW MLC questions fallout from ACT gas transition
‘Bigger questions’ after parole board’s AI use blunder
Labor’s visa detention stance compared with Trump’s ICE
Driver charged over Gungahlin cyclist deaths
Struggling womenswear brand to close five stores
Lifestyle
Do you know where your business data lives?
Most Australian businesses have no idea which country their website and email are hosted in. Here is why that question matters, and what to ask before you sign up. This is a sponsored post.
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Lifestyle
Canberra races to adopt AI, but who’s accountable?
Canberra workplaces are embracing AI faster than the rules governing its use can keep up. This sponsored post looks at why closing that gap is becoming increasingly important.
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Lifestyle
A final gift that can transform another life
The gift of donated tissue helped Francesca Middleton-Yong move freely again, while donated corneas can restore sight. This sponsored post explores the difference one decision can make.
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News
‘Congratulations!’ AI tells user mulling assisted death
A senior Liberal MP has recalled the troubling encounter his terminally ill constituent had with an AI chatbot during an inquiry into the emergent technology.
Politics
Migration shift a ‘terrible signal’ for luring talent
Whether or not they work, adjustments to the migration system are damaging Australia's brand, advocates warn.
News
NSW MLC questions fallout from ACT gas transition
NSW Nationals Member of the Legislative Council Nichole Overall is warning the ACT's transition away from natural gas could have cost and supply implications for customers across the border in Queanbeyan and surrounding communities.
News
‘Bigger questions’ after parole board’s AI use blunder
Lawyers and politicians have raised concerns after a parole board use fake AI to justify a condition placed on convicted killer Susan Neill-Fraser.
Update
Labor’s visa detention stance compared with Trump’s ICE
Rounding up people who have overstayed their visa into detention centres has been blasted as missing the mark and copying harsh immigration tactics in the US.
Police
Driver charged over Gungahlin cyclist deaths
A 40-year-old woman has been charged over a collision that killed two cyclists and injured another on Gungahlin Drive last month.
News
Struggling womenswear brand to close five stores
Four Cue stores and another operated by its sister brand, Veronika Maine, will shut stores, including one in Woden, as receivers try to find a buyer for the struggling women's clothing chain.
Education
Public register to reveal childcare breaches
Canberra families will be able to check the regulatory compliance records of early childhood education and care centres under a new public register being developed by the ACT government.
Police
Nine held in Canberra cannabis crackdown
Nine people have been arrested and 1586 cannabis plants seized in what police say is their largest operation targeting grow houses in the ACT.
Daily Puzzles
Six weeks after aborting his first attempt, Tony Burke has finally unveiled Labor’s migration overhaul – only to leave the government vulnerable from both sides of the debate, writes political columnist MICHELLE GRATTAN.
"Across the three financial years leading to 2025-26 the government spent almost $130 million on medical negligence claims." But that's not all, reports MICHAEL MOORE, there are millions lost to ACT Government incompetence every year.
Skating rink: Labor puts more promises on ice
They’re rebranding the PM and here’s why…
Albanese lashes Hanson over attack on his mother
Malinauskas bucks political rush to cut migration
Hanson’s refusal to back down faces a test
Pauline’s dangerous and captivating propaganda cartoon
Views
Cartoon / Dose of Dorin
They're not happy in the bush with Labor's immigration changes, says cartoonist PAUL DORIN.
Opinion
Time to end the farce of a wrongful conviction
"In Tasmania the game of 'cover up' is played with more intensity than in Canberra – publishers get calls threatening ruinous defamation and journalists get fed error-ridden press releases," writes legal columnist HUGH SELBY.
Opinion
Greens gambling tax call still doesn’t add up
"The Greens had an opportunity to demonstrate that their concern about the ACT's finances was serious enough to sit across the table from people they disagreed with and find common ground. And they chose not to," writes GWYN REES.
Opinion
Cartoon: Dose of Dorin
Cartoonist PAUL DORIN says he draws with AI – that is, "arty intelligence".
Opinion
KEEPING UP THE ACT
There's an art to breaking election promises. KEEPING UP THE ACT thinks Minister Chris Steel has all the moves.
Opinion
The cupboard can wait, squeeze it into the fridge
"My preferred method of food storage has a tendency to completely overfill the fridge… If something can go in the fridge, why wouldn’t you put it in the fridge?" PAUL DORIN has some confessions when it comes to clearing the table...
Opinion
Sex claims: what’s the need to name schools?
"Even given the worst possible outcomes for the accused, what possible significance could their schools be in investigations to allegations of events in a suburban alley and a private home," asks former school principal NOEL BEDDOE.
Letters
Inadequacy of planning processes in Curtin plan
"The inadequacy of the dual planning regime was apparent in the approval of the Amberfield retirement village for 55 single-storey villas and 260 apartments on the Cotter Road, an 80 km/h arterial road," says letter writer MIKE QUIRK.
Arts
Frozen delivers a blizzard of stage magic
From Elsa's show-stopping transformation to a scene-stealing sauna, Free-Rain Theatre Company delivers Frozen on an impressive scale, reviews BILL STEPHENS.
Dance
Having your cake and dancing it
Are cake and dancing mutually exclusive? Not if you're Canberra dance artist, Pilates practitioner and co-director of Mirramu Creative Arts Centre, Vivienne Rogis, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Music
Posthumous lifetime achievement award for Dolly Parton
Late country legend Dolly Parton has given a posthumous video message as she accepted a lifetime achievement gong.
Books
‘Odd’ king’s tale explores the nature of history
ANNA CREER reviews two new novels of historical fiction, one set in present and medieval times, the other in World War I.
Art
Canberra painter becomes face of Sydney art fair
Bridie O'Brien, a Canberra landscape painter who only recently moved to the national capital, has been chosen as the campaign artist for the 2026 Affordable Art Fair Sydney, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Music
CSO strings put the scream back into ‘Psycho’
ALANNA MACLEAN reviews the CSO strings under Jen Winley giving Bernard Herrmann's Psycho score the drive and menace it needs as Hitchcock's horror unfolds on screen.
Reviews
Biggins inhabits Keating with humour and poignancy
Jonathan Biggins goes well beyond political satire to inhabit Paul Keating in a performance of humour, poignancy and exceptional acting, reviews JOE WOODWARD.
Art
Colour, landscape and space share the walls
KERRY-ANNE COUSINS reviews Al Munro, Wendy Teakel and emerging artist Claire Fletcher, whose contrasting works range from playful architectural forms to landscapes and abstract space.
Art
Payne finds art written in the stars
Old astronomical glass plates find new life as Patsy Payne turns scientific records of the night sky into art at Megalo, reviews KERRY-ANNE COUSINS.
Lifestyle
STEP into a local native treasure
Forest 20 at the National Arboretum offers a colourful showcase of Southern Tablelands plants, wildlife and landscapes, writes BILL HANDKE.
Technology
Do you know where your business data lives?
Most Australian businesses have no idea which country their website and email are hosted in. Here is why that question matters, and what to ask before you sign up. This is a sponsored post.
Sponsored Content
Medicine and wellbeing
Can statins help you age more healthily?
Millions of Australians take statins to prevent heart attacks and strokes. Medicine experts examine whether the widely used drugs could have benefits beyond heart health.
Dining
Funky spot with pretty special food
Next to Canberra Theatre, in Constitution Place, is a funky restaurant with groovy artwork, pretty special food and knowledgeable staff, writes dining reviewer WENDY JOHNSON.
Wine
Hungover? It’s your body saying you’re an idiot
CityNews wine writer RICHARD CALVER ponders the question: why on earth are the effects of returning to normality after drinking far worse than what the body feels under the influence?
Lifestyle
Cartoon / Dose of Dorin
It's hard to keep up with rising fuel prices, says cartoonist PAUL DORIN.
Environment
The flesh-eating threat in backyard mozzies this summer
Could mosquitoes really give you a flesh-eating infection? Researchers explain the growing threat of Buruli ulcer and how to reduce your risk this summer.
History
The hard day that never really ends
Twenty-five years after the September 11 attacks, a return to New York becomes a deeply personal journey of memory, friendship and loss for journalist SCOTT MAYMAN, who lived in the US at the time and lost colleagues and friends that day.
Technology
Cartoon / Paul Dorin
Should we worry about AI? Hand-drawing cartoonist PAUL DORIN thinks we should.
