In cabinet reshuffling, unions do the dealing
"In Labor, unions are aligned around factions, but the blunt reality of political arithmetic means the more members you represent as a faction, the more power you have," writes ANDREW HUGHES.
- Politics
- Lifestyle
A Golden Games Dose of Dorin
So much Games' gold, PAUL DORIN wonders if the government can keep its sticky hands off it.
- Opinion
Climate strategy doesn’t confront wood heaters
If the ACT Government is serious about tackling climate change, why does its strategy largely ignore one of the problem's most significant contributors, asks letter writer DARRYL JOHNSTON.
- Opinion
How the census helps you flush your toilet
From flushing our toilets to building new schools, this is why filling in your census form matters, writes demographer LIZ ALLEN.
- Lifestyle
A Golden Games Dose of Dorin
There's a downside to too much success at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games, says cartoonist PAUL DORIN.
- News
Teen charged over alleged repeated strangulation
A 16-year-old boy has been charged after he allegedly strangled his 15-year-old girlfriend on multiple occasions over the course of their relationship.
- Lifestyle
Does regular exercise stop you getting sick in winter?
Can regular exercise help keep winter bugs at bay? Researchers at Monash University examine what the evidence really says about staying active during the colder months.
- Arts & Entertainment
Nightmare shipwreck doco cruises to top spot
The stranger-than-fiction story of the Costa Concordia, a luxury cruise ship that was shipwrecked 14 years ago, is still making waves, writes streaming columnist NICK OVERALL.
- Lifestyle
Leave grasses unpruned over winter
Leaving ornamental grasses unpruned through winter provides valuable wildlife habitat while adding texture and structure to the winter garden, writes columnist JACKIE WARBURTON.
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.
Arts & Entertainment
Rare Shakespeare challenge for youthful cast
The Mill Theatre is taking on one of Shakespeare's more rarely-produced plays, The Winter's Tale, as its first youth production.
Bus shelters join heritage register
No Canberra clues in Koala launch plans
‘Long, difficult journey’: first bird flu mass deaths
Jones blasts sex abuse claims as ‘rivalry, treachery’
Tree renewal begins at Lennox Gardens
Canberra secures new NBL role amid expansion team hopes
Lifestyle
Expert emergency care when your pet needs it most
When a pet suddenly becomes ill or suffers an injury knowing experienced emergency veterinary care is available close to home provides invaluable peace of mind for pet owners, and that's exactly what Valley Veterinary Emergency offers.
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Opinion
Pokemon? That would be a Rastafarian proctologist
A neologism is a newly coined word or expression and Whimsy columnist CLIVE WILLIAMS shares some of the latest ingenious ones.
Lifestyle
A new fitness option arrives in Erindale
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
News
Bus shelters join heritage register
Canberra's distinctive cream and orange concrete bus shelters have been added to the ACT Heritage Register, recognising their architectural, historic and social significance.
News
No Canberra clues in Koala launch plans
Canberra's role in Australia's newest airline remains unclear, despite Koala Airlines revealing more details about its planned launch later this year.
National news
‘Long, difficult journey’: first bird flu mass deaths
Australians will be confronted with heartbreaking scenes after a mass mortality event due to bird flu was confirmed, the federal government has warned.
Update
Jones blasts sex abuse claims as ‘rivalry, treachery’
Longtime talkback host Alan Jones is set to attack the credibility and reliability of six men who have accused him of indecent assault and sexual touching.
News
Tree renewal begins at Lennox Gardens
The ACT Government will remove and replace 43 trees at Lennox Gardens over the coming weeks as part of a renewal program aimed at improving the long-term health of the park's urban forest.
Update
Canberra secures new NBL role amid expansion team hopes
Australia's capital hasn't hosted an NBL team since 2003, and momentum is gathering for the competition to reinstall a team in Canberra.
Politics
One Nation edges back in front in federal poll
A Redbridge poll suggests One Nation is slightly ahead of Labor again, with the two parties repeatedly trading places over the last four months.
National news
Servos warned with $100m fine as fuel prices to spike
Motorists, truckies and farmers will be hit with higher fuel prices following the end of a tax cut, as servos are warned about potential price hikes.
Police
Teen charged over Kippax machete robbery
A teenage girl has been charged and a teenage boy will be summonsed over an armed robbery at a Kippax bottle shop in June.
Daily Puzzles
"In Labor, unions are aligned around factions, but the blunt reality of political arithmetic means the more members you represent as a faction, the more power you have," writes ANDREW HUGHES.
Anthony Albanese may have tightly managed Labor's national conference but the telehealth voluntary assisted dying vote has left him with an uncomfortable dilemma, writes political columnist MICHELLE GRATTAN
There’s more to Pauline’s popularity than protest
Labor’s managed democracy on display
Kelty warning overshadows Labor conference
Berry is right to resign, she should have known
Labor rolls out $25m Palestine aid ahead of conference
What fragmented media is doing to political messaging
Views
Climate strategy doesn’t confront wood heaters
If the ACT Government is serious about tackling climate change, why does its strategy largely ignore one of the problem's most significant contributors, asks letter writer DARRYL JOHNSTON.
Opinion
How the census helps you flush your toilet
From flushing our toilets to building new schools, this is why filling in your census form matters, writes demographer LIZ ALLEN.
Opinion
In time, today will be yesterday tomorrow
"Modern physics has revealed a surprising truth: time can vary, depending on motion, gravity and the structure of the universe," writes Whimsy columnist CLIVE WILLIAMS.
Opinion
Unions get leverage from Fair Work Act changes
"I fear it will entrench discrimination against businesses whose employees are not covered by union-backed enterprise agreements." industrial relations lawyer RICHARD CALVER looks at recent changes to the Fair Work legislation.
Opinion
KEEPING UP THE ACT
KEEPING UP THE ACT reveals how the ACT Inactivity Commission's Operation Kingfisher took only five years to land a couple of big fish.
Opinion
Another day, another alleged police bashing
The unprovoked and purely gratuitous bashing of a compliant, naked, handcuffed Aboriginal man in an ACT police cell is surely the last straw, says JULIE TONGS.
Letters
Public libraries are a public service, not a saving
"Perhaps the government should concentrate on demonstrating value through sound financial management rather than reminding ratepayers that using a service funded by their taxes has saved them money," says letter writer DAVID EVERED.
Opinion
Integrity enquiry couldn’t see the wood for the trees
"I have sadly concluded that this integrity commission doesn't understand integrity. I got the report. I wept," writes CityNews legal columnist HUGH SELBY. Here's why...
Arts
Rare Shakespeare challenge for youthful cast
The Mill Theatre is taking on one of Shakespeare's more rarely-produced plays, The Winter's Tale, as its first youth production.
Music
Sitkovetsky Trio impresses on Canberra debut
In their first Australian visit and a Canberra debut at Snow Concert Hall, the storied Sitkovesky Trio delivered the Beethoven Piano Trio in D with "expression and panache", reviews SARAH BYRNE.
Music
Anfiloff brings art songs vividly to life
DAVID WHITBREAD reviews soprano Sonia Anfiloff and pianist Alan Hicks's "delightful" performance 'Eternity' for Art Song Canberra.
Music
Young pianists to shine at National Eisteddfod
More than 400 performances by young pianists from Canberra, interstate and overseas, will fill the Wesley Music Centre when the Australian National Eisteddfod's Piano competition returns from August 15 to 20, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Art
Artists summon harpies to confront hubris
Afternoon of the Harpies promises, or perhaps threatens, to be an exhibition of fantastical creatures, insect angels, carpets and luminescent fish-trap spaceships by two of the Canberra region's most provocative and adventurous artists.
Music
Miriam Allan brings Bach comedy to Canberra
Star Australian soprano Miriam Allan will return to Canberra next week with a Bach program that ranges from the moving to the comic, joined on stage by her father, baritone Christopher Allan, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Arts & Entertainment
Upton opens a new chapter as an author
Here's arts editor HELEN MUSA's latest Arts in the City column.
Music
Diverse recorder music that can speak across centuries
ROB KENNEDY reviews Woodsong, a performance by Robyn Mellor and Rodney Waterman highlighting the musical artistry of recorder music over 500 years.
Reviews
Izzard’s Hamlet is ‘quite something’
"There’s a few modernising tweaks to the language but those of us mouthing along with the dialogue weren’t worried by that, so good is the energy and the fun." ALANNA MACLEAN reviews Izzard: The Tragedy of Hamlet.
Lifestyle
A Golden Games Dose of Dorin
So much Games' gold, PAUL DORIN wonders if the government can keep its sticky hands off it.
Sport
A Golden Games Dose of Dorin
There's a downside to too much success at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games, says cartoonist PAUL DORIN.
Health & Fitness
Does regular exercise stop you getting sick in winter?
Can regular exercise help keep winter bugs at bay? Researchers at Monash University examine what the evidence really says about staying active during the colder months.
Gardening
Leave grasses unpruned over winter
Leaving ornamental grasses unpruned through winter provides valuable wildlife habitat while adding texture and structure to the winter garden, writes columnist JACKIE WARBURTON.
Pets
Expert emergency care when your pet needs it most
When a pet suddenly becomes ill or suffers an injury knowing experienced emergency veterinary care is available close to home provides invaluable peace of mind for pet owners, and that's exactly what Valley Veterinary Emergency offers.
Sponsored Content
Wine
From ‘borrowed cuttings’, a winning wine
"Steve Feletti’s passion was made real when he 'borrowed' some cuttings from a vigneron in the Languedoc. Then came three years of the plants being in quarantine and then another two years in a cloning laboratory," writes RICHARD CALVER.
Health & Fitness
What’s with all this nose and ear hair popping out?
CHRISTIAN MORO and CHARLOTTE PHELPS go behind the science to discover why nose and ear hairs become longer and thicker as we age.
Dining
Poor service mars a night of (mostly) good food
"Pomegranate has stood the test of time and is elegant, comfortable, warm and inviting. I love it," writes dining reviewer WENDY JOHNSON. "But it was off its game throughout the evening, from start to finish."
Health & Fitness
The surprising science behind singing
Singing does more than brighten your mood. Biomedical scientist KATHLEEN MIKKELSEN explores the science behind its surprising effects on stress, the brain and overall wellbeing.
