During a pandemic, and while working to support her husband and two teenage children who are studying on student visas, 2021 ACT Woman of the Year, Sonam Choden, fought for secure jobs and fair wages for women employed as essential workers.

Anglicare Retail Phillip store supervisor Sarah Hubert says she and her team of volunteers can only sell a fraction of the clothing that comes through the front door.

The 2021 Canberra Citizens of the Year were announced today, with the award going to all those who have enacted the ACT’s COVID-19 response.

With Federal funding for Heart Foundation Walking groups set to expire in June, the national charity is calling for an investment of $9.5 million over three years to keep Australia’s largest free walking network striding forward.

A gap year backpacking Europe was never on the cards for the 2020 dux of St Edmund’s College, 14-year-old Benjamin Francis, who is in the first weeks of a bachelor’s degree.

Parliamentary Friends of Landcare aims to ensure grassroots groups have their voices heard clearly on a federal level.

Phase 1b will include two million people with health concerns or disabilities, and more details were released this week.

Advocates are demanding income support payments be increased to $80 per day for unwaged, underemployed and insecure workers.

A roughly 6,000 strong crowd listened closely as Brittany Higgins spoke about gendered violence at March 4 Justice Canberra.

It wasn’t the first time Canberra Raiders prop Sia Soliola shaved his head for a good cause, and he was more than happy to do it again.

While the plans for tomorrow’s march took flight on Twitter, from 1970 to 1976 the Canberra Women’s Liberation Group spread its roots with telephone trees and a printed monthly newsletter.

Just 4,200 people will attend the Australian War Memorial Dawn Service on Anzac Day, and 3,000 people will attend the National Ceremony.