According to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, falls were the leading cause of injury hospitalisations in 2023–24 and the leading cause of injury deaths in 2022–23, costing the health system more than $5 billion.
If you regularly walk, run or cycle past Bowen Park on Lake Burley Griffin on a Saturday or Sunday, you have likely had the pleasure of seeing or meeting 31-year-old Simon the Bike Guy.
When retired teacher Joy Urquhart saw an opportunity to recognise her friend via the recent Canberra Weekly International Women’s Day competition, she did not hesitate to whip up a compelling entry.
Last year, the Canberra/Goulburn St Vincent de Paul Society responded to 19,400 requests for emergency relief, provided 67,000 meals and delivered over 70 tonnes of food in partnership with Oz Harvest.
As the sun rose over the Australian War Memorial at 5:30am this morning, more than 200 riders, buoyed by a myriad of personal reasons, did what most of us would struggle to contemplate doing and set off on a nine-day, 1,400km bike ride to raise funds for cancer research.
On Wednesday evening, just before 7:10pm, Claudine Thomasset was sitting on the couch in Breadalbane, NSW, with her dachshund Paris, when her house started shaking.
It seems fair to say that teenage Katherine Berney could not have imagined her grown-up self sitting downstairs from her place of work as Director of Gender Based Violence Prevention, Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education, speaking with a journalist about gender-based violence.
When 37-year-old Joshua Kinsey Ward was born in the old Royal Canberra Hospital, with Down syndrome, doctors told his parents that he would never walk, talk or read.
Earlier this week, National Capital Authority (NCA) Chief Executive Karen Doran and key NCA staff members provided a media tour of the refurbished National Rose Gardens and Federation Centenary Fountains.
