It's now seven years and three months since the ACT government released a request for tender, offering to return Boomanulla Oval in Narrabundah to indigenous management, says CEO of Winnunga Nimmityjah, Julie Tongs.
"Sometimes I really have to force myself, it is quite strange having social anxiety while being a performance artist, it's easier if someone just tells me where to be." LILY PASS meets a guitarist on a mission for good mental health.
Essential trade professionals are becoming endangered and, if there's no action soon, their knowledge, experience and insights will be lost forever.
When Shaun Crain signed up for the Shitbox Rally to raise money for the Cancer Council, he didn’t expect to get diagnosed himself.
"By actually having these basic skills, we don't have to rely on anyone to fix it just because now we know what to do.” So says Womens Shed Canberra founder Sunita Kotnala.
Five months, 10,069 kilometres, nights in a police station and days spent modelling for a painter are some of the many ways Ian Wallis spent his solo bike ride from Canberra to Singapore, reports LILY PASS.
Martin Fisk, the former CEO of Menslink, says he first discovered the 145-kilometre Canberra Centenary Trail while helping to organise an event with a sponsor. Now he's co-authored a guide to it, reports LILY PASS.
Dr Karen Demmery, Wiradjuri from Dubbo and Barkenji from Bourke, was kicked out of school in year nine, told she was just wasting her principal’s time. How things have changed, reports LILY PASS.
Sukhraj Singh, 41, wanted to write a book for Australia, to show his link to both of the countries he calls home, reports LILY PASS.
PUJA Nagaria watched Miss Universe pageants when she was only four-years-old, and thinking she wanted to be like those girls. Now 27, she will represent the ACT in the Miss Earth Australia pageant between September 6 and 10 in Sydney.
The Belconnen 2 Bookclub started as an idea between friends who were searching for something to do in July, 1983. That was 40 years and 440 books ago, reports LILY PASS.
In 1963, ambassador, Juan Patricio Gallagher opened the Peruvian embassy in Canberra. Sixty years later, his son Roberto is still here.
