The 2023 ACT Woman of the Year is community sector worker Betty Macharia, an African Australian woman who has dedicated many years to volunteering in the ACT community services sector.
Liberal racing spokesman Mark Parton has accused the chief minister of failing to promote the 50th running of the Black Opal Stakes when spruiking events taking place around Canberra in the month of March on social media.
New research says women are just as willing to be interviewed by media as men but are increasingly concerned about copping sexist abuse and online trolling when they do.
Australians think government's most important role is to provide health care for the sick, control who enters Australia’s borders and provide a decent standard of living for the old, new research from the ANU shows.
"The fiasco of the Spilt Milk festival has shown: trams are ineffective at evacuating large numbers of people. If the line is blocked, be it by people or fallen branches, the whole operation comes to a halt," writes BEATRICE BODART-BAILEY.
On Boronia Farm, just outside Donnybrook in WA, stands an 80-something-year-old apple tree (Malus domestica) that’s at the heart of a global industry, writes SUSAN BROOMHALL.
"For people with disability or older Canberrans, the popularity and expansion of e-scooters have come to represent an increasing threat," writes CRAIG WALLACE.