In an Australian-first, Canberra’s financially-strapped and last surviving Services Club is re-defining its membership from defence personnel to the wider non-profit community and offering a share in 50 per cent of profits.
Women working in the Federal public service earn on average 86 cents for every dollar men earn, according to a new report by Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA).
This equates to women earning...
Lifeline Canberra has a licence for tomorrow’s Winter Solstice Nude Charity Swim, to avoid the maximum penalty for indecent exposure - one-year imprisonment and a $3,200 fine.
So with legalities out of the...
Mid-winter may seem an unseasonal time to start a register of life models - to connect artists with nude models - but a Canberra entrepreneur has established a database of more than...
News that Telstra Tower is re-opening has caused a flurry of excitement (Black Mountain was like Pitt Street on the weekend) and no-one’s more excited than former elevator operators Sharon Dodds and...
Olympics is the pinnacle of sporting achievement and it may look exhilarating but it’s also expensive, so the ACT Government is chipping in $100,000 for 34 local athletes.
To give you an idea of...
A film crew descended on Canberra today, Thursday 13 June, to film a reality TV show – not with paid B-grade actors seeking 15 minutes of fame – but with philanthropists who...
At 76, David Crook could probably hold his own in a street fight because he is a master (sifu) in kung fu and runs the oldest Chinese martial arts school in Canberra...
We’ve just had a quiet King’s birthday long weekend (due to the absence of fireworks that once exploded in the ACT before the 2009 ban) but take heart Canberra, Gunning Fireworks Festival...
Canberra is a well-educated city - what with all our scientists at CSIRO and esteemed academics at ANU – and yet there are still people who ring triple zero to report that...
Go on admit it, we all like to read the social pages to see who’s been seen with who and it seems the biggest socialites in Canberra are …. sulphur-crested cockatoos. It’s...
