The charming seaside village of Tathra on the NSW Far South Coast will host the inaugural Headland Writers Festival this weekend, 14-16 May.

Diners keen to try a truly democratic degustation dining experience will be delighted to know ‘Taste and Test’ has returned to Sage Dining Rooms throughout April.

Former Canberra Liberals leader, Alistair Coe will resign from the Legislative Assembly in March, having been a member since 2008.

CW has rounded up the list of ACT public holidays, school terms and Daylight Saving Time dates in 2021 so you don’t have to.

With direct flights linking Canberra and Maroochydore, you can be on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast (aka the Sunny Coast) in under two hours.

With 78.4% of the vote counted last night, the Greens look like the big winners in the 2020 ACT election, potentially increasing their seats in the Legislative Assembly from two to three, with the potential to pick up three more, according to the ABC’s election analyst Antony Green.

This year, despite my best intentions to heed the ACT Electoral Commission’s appeal to “Vote safe. Vote early” – as the vast majority of the ACT electorate did – I found myself waiting until today, Saturday 17 October, the official election day, to cast my vote.

With the countryside verdant and travel to regional NSW considered safe, road tripping through Central NSW ticks plenty of boxes. CW editor Julie Samaras hit the road to Oberon, Cowra and Canowindra last week to take in the sights.

We took a road trip west to Wagga Wagga, in the heart of the Riverina, and discovered a cosmopolitan yet charming big country town.

Regular readers will be familiar with my “reasons to be grateful” that round off most columns.

Today, 23 ACT residents in 17 vehicles returned home by road from the Victorian border at Wodonga, bringing to 120 the total number of Canberrans returning during the five-day window allowed by the NSW Government.

Disaster assistance is now available in 13 NSW local government areas, including Queanbeyan-Palerang, Bega, Eurobodalla, Goulburn Mulwaree, Yass and Snowy Monaro, following severe storms and floods across the NSW coast last weekend.