The AFP Pipes and Drums band has an eclectic mix of professions – not all sworn officers as you may assume – and the best part is that the Pipe Major is a Police Inspector and the Pipe Sergeant is a criminal defender.
During the pandemic it was a different kind of fever that hit public servant Gerard de Ruyter - it was that ‘70s pandemic, Saturday Night Fever.
Gerard, also known as Super Freak, is...
Canberra is home to more than 110 diplomatic missions but none are more resolute in continued diplomacy than the Embassy of Afghanistan, operating without government guidance or financial support since the country fell to the Taliban in 2021.
Now that Matilda mania has subsided a little, it’s time to acknowledge Canberra’s (and Australia’s) new world champion – 23-year-old Jamie Gumbrell, who won the Golf Croquet Women’s World Championship in England earlier this month.
It’s not often a guitarist rocks up to the daily Last Post ceremony at the Australian War Memorial but today is no ordinary day; it is Vietnam Veterans’ Day and the 57th...
Rocks are great story-tellers you just have to know how to read them. Geoscience Australia has created a real page-turner with a new educational exhibition – Rocks that Shape Australia.
Every rock has...
While the Australian Government pledges military support for Ukraine, two small Rotary Clubs in Canberra are pledging a fun escape for Ukraine children fleeing the country.
It’s a little-known fact that Canberra Burley...
Canberra’s ageing City Police Station (built in 1966) and encroaching light rail works pose a real threat to victims and witnesses attending court and to city police officers.
The 53-year-old building – the...
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese literally let the cat out of the bag at today’s portrait unveiling for former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd – accidentally letting slip that it was the first portrait of a PM to includes a family pet.
Rheumatic Heart Disease (RHD) and its precursor, acute rheumatic fever, is preventable, yet 10,000 people live with the devastating condition – of whom more than 80 per cent are Aboriginal and Torres...
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese isn’t the only music-lover on the hill (remember him sculling a beer at Gang of Youths concert), David Pocock is also a fan and today the Senate debated his Bill to overturn archaic copyright legislation that shortchanges musicians when their songs are played on radio.
