"Two matters in the legal arena illustrate how secret decision making is now suspect: that distrust has replaced trust." Columnist HUGH SELBY laments how quickly expectations of probity, decency and fairness in public life have fallen.
Bamboo can make an effective privacy screen, but in Canberra it is best grown in pots to avoid it becoming a long-term garden problem, writes gardening columnist JACKIE WARBURTON.
Political columnist MICHELLE GRATTAN believes artificial intelligence offers the Albanese government its best hope of lifting productivity, but balancing its economic promise against its risks will be no easy task.
Two cultural icons of the 20th century – Marilyn Monroe and Stephen King – have been assessed through their books. In Monroe's case, the books she read or owned; in King's, the books he wrote early in his career. COLIN STEELE reviews them.
"The prices in Nordic countries for wine are eye-watering. In Iceland, the most expensive destination an average glass of white wine (an unimpressive pinot grigio) was $28 a glass," bemoans our travelling wine writer RICHARD CALVER.
A true local with a solid following, Gryphons Caffe Bar has held a prime possie on the dining scene at Griffith shops since 2012, writes dining reviewer WENDY JOHNSON.
"As another financial year begins, the national conversation should move beyond the assumption that bigger is always better." CLIVE WILLIAMS says the question is not how to make the economy bigger, but how to make Australians better off.
"We visited my grandparents as often as we could. They couldn’t have been more different: on my dad’s side, it felt like an etiquette school; on my mum’s, a fun park. I loved being at both" writes PAUL DORIN.
"I come not to bury Shane, but to compost him". New Greens leader Jo Clay shares her cure for the Rattenbury hangover with KEEPING UP THE ACT.
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.
Mushroom cook Erin Patterson intentionally poisoned four members of her estranged husband's family, a jury has found after a week of deliberations.
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.
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.
Stephen Crichton is set for scans on his neck after suffering a loss of feeling in his right arm in Canterbury's 40-16 defeat to Canberra.
In this sponsored post, the team at Anytime Fitness talk about the club's new location in Erindale that opened its doors on June 22, providing local residents with opportunity to invest in their health closer home.
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Could this be Australia’s warmest winter ever? And does a warm winter have consequences for Australia’s next summer?, ask climate experts MILTON SPEER and LANCE M LESLIE
Singer Art Garfunkel says he and longtime musical partner Paul Simon have 'found peace' decades after the ups and downs of one of music's greatest duos.
Stephen Crichton is set for scans on his neck after suffering a loss of feeling in his right arm in Canterbury's 40-16 defeat to Canberra.
A pianist sacked after telling an audience Israel deliberately targeted journalists to curb war crimes reporting has opened up on a high-profile court loss.
The ACT Government has agreed to buy 243 hectares of a former CSIRO agriculture research site at Ginninderra East for $385 million over eight years, paving the way for a new suburb with more than 3000 homes.
Canberra's Venezuelan community will host a major fundraising event later this month to support victims of the devastating earthquakes that have struck Venezuela.
A 20-year-old Nicholls man has been charged with multiple driving offences after police allege he failed to stop for officers and resisted arrest at a busy Gungahlin intersection.
A notorious Australian murderer can be seen aggressively denying knowing where a body from an infamous killing is during an interview weeks before his death.
Mayfield Childcare has become the third ASX-listed early childhood centre in 2026 to highlight challenging conditions for the industry.
Telstra is facing scrutiny after its third major outage in less than a year, as experts call for legislation to suit an increasingly digitally-reliant world.
A designer who creates whimsical outfits from discarded fabric is part of a fast-fashion resistance, as research urges normalising clothing repair and re-use.
Political columnist MICHELLE GRATTAN believes artificial intelligence offers the Albanese government its best hope of lifting productivity, but balancing its economic promise against its risks will be no easy task.
"I think many of us have missed that One Nation’s growth is partly down to a lack of centrist options and less the rise of the conservative vote," writes political columnist ANDREW HUGHES.
"Two matters in the legal arena illustrate how secret decision making is now suspect: that distrust has replaced trust." Columnist HUGH SELBY laments how quickly expectations of probity, decency and fairness in public life have fallen.
"As another financial year begins, the national conversation should move beyond the assumption that bigger is always better." CLIVE WILLIAMS says the question is not how to make the economy bigger, but how to make Australians better off.
"I come not to bury Shane, but to compost him". New Greens leader Jo Clay shares her cure for the Rattenbury hangover with KEEPING UP THE ACT.
Labor's “Aquatic Strategy” promises that “options to deliver a new public 50-metre outdoor pool in Woden will be progressed”. But progressing options differs from a commitment, says BEATRICE BODART-BAILEY.
With tenders called, with 'indecent haste', RICHARD JOHNSTON says we’re back pretty much at square one again, after 15 years of fruitless effort around the moribund Kingston Arts Precinct.
"The ACT Government can break the law, give false information, not listen to the community and all’s good." Letter writer PENNY MOYES, of Hughes, challenged a government minister.
Sardonic, but is this a sad sign of the times, wonders cartoonist PAUL DORIN.
"Younger people need to ask, is this how I want mum and dad treated? And what awaits me when I reach a ripe old age?" BRETT HEFFERNAN, CEO of the Australian Private Hospitals Association,
A post-covid 50th birthday party conversation about middle age and menopause was the catalyst behind the musical Middle Raged, directed by Priscilla Jackman, reviews SAMARA PURNELL.
MICHAEL WILSON reviews Musica Viva Australia's frequent collaborators over forty years, Leila Josefowicz (violin) and John Novacek (piano) meet for an "intriguing and ambitious assembly of works which challenged musical convention".
A First Nations dance company is set to be awarded a major accolade at the Venice Biennale - but says it represents just 35 of 65,000 years of stories.
A giant four-metre steel Murray cod, was installed at Tuggeranong Arts Centre on Friday, launching a collaborative project culminating in a lakeside artwork at November’s Craft + Design Canberra Festival, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Former curator at The National Portrait Gallery, April Phillips, will step into the role of artistic director and CEO of Canberra Contemporary while director Sophia Cai takes maternity leave.
Two cultural icons of the 20th century – Marilyn Monroe and Stephen King – have been assessed through their books. In Monroe's case, the books she read or owned; in King's, the books he wrote early in his career. COLIN STEELE reviews them.
"To us, a mixing desk is a rectangular box covered by an incomprehensible confusion of knobs, sliders and buttons; to Bevan Noble it's a delicate instrument." DAVID TURNBULL continues his series of stories of remarkable Canberrans.
Canberra Repertory is about to embark on its most ambitious show of the 2026 season, The Glass Menagerie, and it has a world expert on Tennessee Williams at the helm of the production, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
A long-running environmental art award exhibition was unveiled on Sunday at the Queanbeyan Art Society Gallery where the major prize of the day went to Sophie Baker for an impressionistic interpretation of Lake Ginninderra.
Bamboo can make an effective privacy screen, but in Canberra it is best grown in pots to avoid it becoming a long-term garden problem, writes gardening columnist JACKIE WARBURTON.
In this sponsored post, the team at Anytime Fitness talk about the club's new location in Erindale that opened its doors on June 22, providing local residents with opportunity to invest in their health closer home.
Sponsored Content
"The prices in Nordic countries for wine are eye-watering. In Iceland, the most expensive destination an average glass of white wine (an unimpressive pinot grigio) was $28 a glass," bemoans our travelling wine writer RICHARD CALVER.
A true local with a solid following, Gryphons Caffe Bar has held a prime possie on the dining scene at Griffith shops since 2012, writes dining reviewer WENDY JOHNSON.
"We visited my grandparents as often as we could. They couldn’t have been more different: on my dad’s side, it felt like an etiquette school; on my mum’s, a fun park. I loved being at both" writes PAUL DORIN.
Our joints are subject to the inevitable wear-and-tear of age, but low-impact exercise can help and are worth trying, writes GORDON WADDINGTON.
Archaeologists say they have unearthed fourth-century quarters in Egypt, revealing residential and religious structures including a basilica church.
Gardening writer JACKIE WARBURTON says the Australian National Botanic Gardens demonstrate how native plants can be grown successfully in our region, how large they become and provide ideas that can be adapted for your own garden.
Frozen fruit and canned veg are cheap, but are they as healthy as fresh food? MARGARET MURRAY has the answers.
