This year’s long-awaited Lifeline Canberra February Bookfair, held at EPIC, will be truly epic: not merely the biggest in three years, since before the pandemic began, but the biggest ever.
The ACT Government has extended the Territory’s ‘low level’ public health social measures for four more weeks. Meanwhile, the Canberra Liberals called on the government to provide more assistance to struggling small businesses still heavily impacted by COVID-19.
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Some Canberrans will lose hundreds of dollars in income support payments over the next fortnight after the federal government removed the ACT from its COVID-19 hotspot list.Â
In 2018, Kristine Hewett and Keron Beath noticed a gap in services for women who have experienced domestic violence and sexual abuse and set about creating their own charity, Adamas Nexus.
The federal government will cut off COVID-19 financial support measures for businesses in the ACT, NSW and Victoria when key vaccination targets are reached.
The ACT Government will continue financial assistance to Canberra businesses until the end of the year, Chief Minister Andrew Barr announced today, acknowledging that some measures revealed this week were not viable for some businesses.
Frustrated by a lengthy delay in support payments and what they say is a lack of direct contact with the Chief Minister, local business groups have been invited to meet tomorrow with government officials from Economic Development who are managing the ACT’s lockdown Business Grant program.
Many local business leaders are feeling deflated by Tuesday’s announcement that the lockdown would be extended for another month. Many of the capital’s small businesses are already on the ropes, and business leaders fear this could be a knockout blow for them.
The Domestic Violence Crisis Service (DVCS) has received more calls than ever to their 24/7 hotline, and an increased demand for crisis accommodation since the lockdown began, which CEO Sue Webeck thinks are good signs.
