Scones and sympathy: country ways connecting the city
Pickles, baking and knitting are attracting a new generation of Country Women's Association members and bringing the spirit of the bush to the city, reports STEPHANIE GARDINER.
- Lifestyle
- News
Hopes underwater object could be lost aviator’s plane
A US expedition is targeting a mysterious underwater object to find out if it is the crashed plane of long-missing pioneer aviator Amelia Earhart, reports LLOYD JONES.
- Lifestyle
Now’s the time to love the lawn
Warmer soils mean it's time to feed, water and care for lawns to keep them lush, green and healthy through summer, says gardening columnist JACKIE WARBURTON.
- Politics
Migration can be a dangerous sinkhole for coalition
What began as a promising political opportunity has become a migration minefield for Angus Taylor, caught between One Nation’s tougher stance and business concerns, writes political columnist MICHELLE GRATTAN.
- Lifestyle
The taste of a Tasmanian wine lion
"Tasmanian conditions allow grapevines a long, generally cool growing season. So, the grapes can ripen slowly without losing acidity," writes wine columnist RICHARD CALVER.
- Lifestyle
Meet ‘Chuck’, the eccentric, heartthrob star bowler
An eccentric, a lover and a brilliant spin bowler, ROSS FITZGERALD and DICK WHITAKER remember an extraordinary Australian cricketer.
- Opinion
Justice delayed: how to speed up slow judges
"The selection of our judiciary is quaint. The community might reasonably expect that applicants demonstrate a capacity to write a decision prior to appointment. That doesn’t happen." HUGH SELBY has some ideas to speed up slow judgments.
- Politics
Cartoon / Dose of Dorin
Cartoonist PAUL DORIN has Minister Chris Bowen's answer to the question of turning renewables into dollars.
- Lifestyle
Colonisation, not climate change, first primed forests to burn
Climate change isn't the only reason some Australian forests burn so fiercely. Researchers reveal how colonisation transformed once-open woodland into fuel-heavy forests primed for catastrophic fire.
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.
News
Minister issues hard ‘no’ on Russian diesel imports
Australia doesn't want or need imported Russian diesel despite a new supply deal between Moscow and the US, Energy Minister Chris Bowen says.
Man charged over ‘offensive’ act at Bondi attack site
Teenager seriously injured in Conder shooting
Canberra rookie’s Bathurst 1000 tribute to late mum
‘Driving me insane’: restaurateur slams migrant debate
Businesses not buying positive spin on surcharge ban
Local solar-sharers crowned at Aussie design awards
Lifestyle
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Lifestyle
Ticks pose a growing risk to Canberra pets
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Lifestyle
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News
Minister issues hard ‘no’ on Russian diesel imports
Australia doesn't want or need imported Russian diesel despite a new supply deal between Moscow and the US, Energy Minister Chris Bowen says.
National news
Man charged over ‘offensive’ act at Bondi attack site
Almost a year after the Bondi Beach shooting, a man has been charged with alleged "offensive behaviour" near the scene of the massacre.
Police
Teenager seriously injured in Conder shooting
A teenager has been seriously injured after a man allegedly fired a gun at a car carrying four teenagers in Conder on Friday night.
Sports news
Canberra rookie’s Bathurst 1000 tribute to late mum
Supercars rookie Zach Bates is out to turn his Bathurst 1000 provisional pole into the real deal after an emotional, record-setting lap at Mount Panorama.
National news
‘Driving me insane’: restaurateur slams migrant debate
Political policies to curb immigration and narrow the definition of a skilled migrant have been met with dismay by industries experiencing workforce shortages.
National news
Businesses not buying positive spin on surcharge ban
The Reserve Bank says small businesses are expected to benefit the most from its card surcharge reforms, but restaurant and cafe owners say they are losing out.
Technology
Local solar-sharers crowned at Aussie design awards
An innovation to split shared solar power has collected top honours at a national design awards with judges commending "world-class" talents, reports MAX ALDRED.
Feature
Hopes underwater object could be lost aviator’s plane
A US expedition is targeting a mysterious underwater object to find out if it is the crashed plane of long-missing pioneer aviator Amelia Earhart, reports LLOYD JONES.
Update
Data centre stoushes a ‘sad state of affairs’, MPs told
A public uproar about data centres blossoming across Australia is well-founded but sometimes misdirected, a parliamentary committee has been told.
Daily Puzzles
What began as a promising political opportunity has become a migration minefield for Angus Taylor, caught between One Nation’s tougher stance and business concerns, writes political columnist MICHELLE GRATTAN.
Cartoonist PAUL DORIN has Minister Chris Bowen's answer to the question of turning renewables into dollars.
Cartoon / Dose of Dorin
Does the Coalition’s migration maths stack up?
Ministerial Wallys who won’t face up to bad news
Rabbits to budgets… what’s Labor’s problem?
Opposition in search of a spine and policy smarts
Solid and safe: why the Greens chose Shoebridge
Views
Justice delayed: how to speed up slow judges
"The selection of our judiciary is quaint. The community might reasonably expect that applicants demonstrate a capacity to write a decision prior to appointment. That doesn’t happen." HUGH SELBY has some ideas to speed up slow judgments.
Opinion
Heavy downsides to losing weight in space
"After weeks or months in orbit, astronauts experience dramatic but short-lived symptoms. Many describe an overwhelming heaviness, as if their arms and legs are made of lead." Whimsy columnist CLIVE WILLIAMS looks at weightlessness.
Opinion
Canberra still drags its heels in Closing the Gap
"Disappointingly, the latest data reveals, again, that the ACT is not a high-performing jurisdiction when it comes to closing the gap," writes indigenous advocate JULIE TONGS.
Opinion
KEEPING UP THE ACT
Teachers' union chief Angela Burroughs finds herself in a relentless loop of circular argument with the Minister for Education and Dark Arts Rachel Slytherin-Smith. It's KEEPING UP THE ACT!
Opinion
When judges and journalists lose their way
"Something basic is amiss when a national newspaper runs an error-ridden, unsubstantiated opinion piece that is intent on undermining community confidence in our judiciary," writes HUGH SELBY.
Opinion
The cyber crisis that’s flummoxing the government
"Over the next five years the jobs forecast is for 500 new entrants through digital graduate and trainee programs, but with 1800 retirements. That creates a gap of 8190 digital government staff by 2030," say ALEX KOVACESKI & RICHARD CALVER.
Letters
Columns confirm we’ve got the government we deserve
"Why worry if a woman in custodial care gets $100,000 medical compensation. It’s only other people’s money," says letter writer ANTHONY HORDERN.
Opinion
Cartoon / Dose of Dorin
Suddenly everyone's talking about data centres, says cartoonist PAUL DORIN.
Opinion
How Australia dropped the digital leadership ball
"The latest political spin presents the Albanese government as leaders in managing the new Digital Age. But the sad truth is that this government, when given the ball, kicked it into the long grass," writes HUGH SELBY.
Arts
Different examinations of identity and masculinity
GRACE CASSIDY reviews a double billing at The Independents – A Festival of New Work.
Musical Theatre
Horror musical takes a savage swipe at conformity
Youth Cabaret, a developing community theatre organisation, has chosen an ambitious cult horror musical for this year’s uproarious production The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals, reviews arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Books
Seven local authors shortlisted for ACT Book of the Year
Seven books have been shortlisted for the 2026 ACT Book of the Year Award, it has been announced by ACT Arts Minister, Michael Pettersson, reports arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Music
‘Nothing to prove’: Kate Ceberano on touring near 60
Singer Kate Ceberano is in the middle of her Australian Made Encore Tour, a 30-date national run that is concluding right after her 60th birthday.
Film
Short Film Festival returns with new director, 114 films
Canberra Short Film Festival returns this weekend with 114 films screening across eight days, bringing local, Australian and international filmmakers to two central Canberra venues from October 10 to 17, reports arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Reviews
Face to Face finds there are no easy villains
ARNE SJOSTEDT reviews David Williamson's play 'Face to Face' at the Mockingbird Theatre which, at 80-minute, was expertly paced and devoid of dull moments.
Dance
‘Wild ride’ as independent artists take centre stage
Canberra audiences are in for a wild ride in the Playhouse as six distinctive productions bring independent creators to the stage in Canberra Theatre Centre's The Independents – Festival of New Works, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Music
Voice and piano weave a mosaic of Schubert
MICHAEL WILSON reviews London-based artists, Alice Zawadzki (voice) and Fred Thomas, (piano)'s performance through songs of the undisputed master of the lieder genre, Franz Schubert for the 50th anniversary of Art Song Canberra.
Theatre
Za Kabuki goes fishing for laughs and love
Known as the oldest Kabuki troupe in the Southern Hemisphere and founded in 1976 by teachers in the ANU Japan Centre, ANU’s Kabuki club, Za Kabuki, hits the stage at Canberra Rep Theatre, reports arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Lifestyle
Scones and sympathy: country ways connecting the city
Pickles, baking and knitting are attracting a new generation of Country Women's Association members and bringing the spirit of the bush to the city, reports STEPHANIE GARDINER.
Gardening
Now’s the time to love the lawn
Warmer soils mean it's time to feed, water and care for lawns to keep them lush, green and healthy through summer, says gardening columnist JACKIE WARBURTON.
Wine
The taste of a Tasmanian wine lion
"Tasmanian conditions allow grapevines a long, generally cool growing season. So, the grapes can ripen slowly without losing acidity," writes wine columnist RICHARD CALVER.
History
Meet ‘Chuck’, the eccentric, heartthrob star bowler
An eccentric, a lover and a brilliant spin bowler, ROSS FITZGERALD and DICK WHITAKER remember an extraordinary Australian cricketer.
Environment
Colonisation, not climate change, first primed forests to burn
Climate change isn't the only reason some Australian forests burn so fiercely. Researchers reveal how colonisation transformed once-open woodland into fuel-heavy forests primed for catastrophic fire.
Dining
A special spot for lunch in Pialligo
Spring is a gorgeous time of year to wander among nurseries and grab a bit of lunch, says dining reviewer WENDY JOHNSON.
Personal finance
Cartoon / Dose of Dorin
We're scaling new heights when it comes to interest rates, says cartoonist PAUL DORIN.
Lifestyle
Cartoon / Dose of Dorin
An idea for when the cost of fuel finally takes you over the top, says cartoonist PAUL DORIN.
Gardening
Mountain Laurel will stop you in your tracks!
Mountain Laurel brings delicate pink spring flowers to the garden and is a tough evergreen well suited to Canberra’s cold climate, says gardening columnist JACKIE WARBURTON.
