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Dress code: birthday suits for Winter Solstice nude swim

One entrepreneurial skinny dipper sold his bottom cheeks for advertising, however most entrants in the Winter Solstice Nude Charity Swim just take the plunge sans billboards.

2023 Lifeline Canberra Gala social photos

Social photos at the 2023 Lifeline Canberra Gala, National Arboretum Canberra. Photos: Ayu Srimoyo.

ACT emergency vehicles branded with Lifeline livery

To mark Lifeline’s 60th birthday today, ACT emergency services will brand two operational vehicles with the mental health charity’s livery.

Firefighters climb Ainslie to Everest in Lifeline fundraiser

Mount Everest is 10,000 kilometres away, but ACT firefighters will scale the height of the mountain this month, to raise money for Lifeline.

Lifeline Canberra Bookfair a ‘resounding success’ raising over $500,000

The February 2023 Lifeline Canberra Bookfair was a “resounding success” marking a record of over $500,000 raised

Lifeline Canberra Bookfair bound to be biggest ever

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.

Christmas and New Year messages

Some prominent Canberrans share their thoughts for the community at Christmas, and their hopes for next year.

Lifeline Canberra Giving Tree offers hope this Christmas

Since launching in 2020 during the depths of the pandemic, Lifeline Canberra's Christmas Giving Tree has funded over 500 calls to Lifeline’s 13 11 14 crisis support line.

‘I hope she’s watching. I hope she’s proud’ says mum of Annabelle Potts

When Kathie Potts ascended to the stage to become Lifeline Canberra’s 2022 Woman of Spirit, her first thought went to her late daughter, Annabelle. “I just got this image of her when they...

A woman of spirit: Adele Auva’a

A finalist in Lifeline Canberra’s 2022 Women of Spirit Awards, Adele Auva’a is a survivor, a proud Samoan woman, and a community mentor to young girls. Above all that, however, she’s a...

Australian experts push for suicide ‘safety planning’

Australians grappling with suicidal thoughts are being urged to set up a suicide safety plan.

Lifeline Canberra Book Fair returns this weekend

Lifeline Canberra’s EPIC Bookfair returns to Exhibition Park this Friday – an eagerly awaited event for Canberra’s booklovers!

Lifeline: Canberrans more willing to discuss mental health

More Australians are reaching out to Lifeline Canberra for help now than during last year’s lockdown, CEO Carrie-Ann Leeson says.

Lifeline Canberra’s women of spirit overcome adversity to lift others

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.

Race in a wedding dress for Lifeline Canberra Bride Stride

Hundreds of brand-new gowns donated to Lifeline Canberra will be for sale at The Canberra Fair on Sunday 28 August.

Lifeline Canberra Bookfair returns southside this weekend

Lifeline Canberra will hold its biggest Southside Bookfair this weekend, with 80 pallets of books, CDs, DVDs, comics, maps, and more.

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