Sydney’s only three hours up the Hume Highway from Canberra or a quick flight in a Dash-8 – and the Emerald City offers so much to see and do, it’s truly worth the trip.
A Proclamation of the King ceremony will be held outside Parliament House in Canberra at 12 noon today, Sunday 11 September, followed by a 21-gun salute.
A 96-gun salute, one round to mark each year of Queen Elizabeth's life, will echo across Canberra from 5pm today, and Australian flags are at half-mast around the nation to mark the long-serving monarch's passing.
A young Indigenous woman who was a child carer for her mentally ill mother and a Canberra mum whose five-year-old daughter died of a rare brain cancer, DIPG, have been honoured at Lifeline Canberra’s Women of Spirit awards today.
Even in winter, the NSW Sapphire Coast sparkles. Although cool, temperatures are usually several degrees warmer than Canberra this time of year and the seaside crowds are thinner on the ground than in summertime.
There’s lots to do in and around the ACT during the winter school holidays, which start around 3pm this Friday and continue through to the start of Term 3 on Monday morning 18 July.
When a long-limbed teenager from Canberra made her Matildas debut against Korea Republic in 2005, Lydia Williams never imagined that 16 years, 10 months and 25 days later, she would be on the verge of becoming the first female Australian goalkeeper to reach a century of appearances for her country.Â
To commemorate Anzac Day, this week’s cover story has a special focus on Australia’s Indigenous service men and women, such as Lance Corporal Kathleen (Kath) Walker (Oodgeroo Noonuccal) who served in WWII.
