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Art: Canberra's geometry turns on a mythic Axis
3+ day, 4+ hour ago (672+ words) A blue figure – part Christ Pantocrator, part Indian murti – raises its arms among the constellations. A flock of birds whirls around a body suspended in the void. And the titan Atlas bears a fractured civic world under an inverted firmament....
What's on: Conservation Celebration Days
3+ day, 21+ hour ago (142+ words) Come and celebrate — and contribute to — amazing conservation efforts happening around the world with the Junior Zoo Keepers at the National Zoo & Aquarium. Pick up an entry sheet from our Front Desk team and join in the fun with our…...
'Dark times': Young Raiders gun reveals the cost of his injury
4+ day, 20+ hour ago (533+ words) If it weren’t for Noah Martin’s partner, the barnstorming second-rower reckons he would have spiralled out of control. Martin made his much-anticipated return to the NRL in Canberra’s 40-16 thumping of Canterbury last Saturday and the 21-year-old looked like he hadn’t…...
Canberra audiences invited to help shape new time-travel play
4+ day, 22+ hour ago (556+ words) Green Oak Theatre — a small, volunteer-run company — is raising money to workshop Amelia Parker’s Assassination, a time-travel drama by producer and creative director Shaylie Gillies. Canberra audiences will get an early look at the work, and may influence what the…...
Woden Green: More than an apartment, a place to belong
5+ day, 1+ hour ago (731+ words) According to Ben Wilson, Listing Agent at The Property Collective Projects, that focus has helped create something much more than an apartment development. “What Hindmarsh has delivered here is a new neighbourhood,” he says. “The communities that are forming aren’t…...
Bringing Joy and Soul: Joshua’s journey with Hotel Etico lights up Mercure Canberra
5+ day, 23+ hour ago (768+ words) Four months into his traineeship at Mercure Canberra, 38-year-old Joshua Kinsey Ward shares the independence, friendships, and professionalism reshaping his future. Earlier this year, Canberra Daily visited Mercure Canberra to discuss the launch of Hotel Etico Australia, a hospitality social…...
Western Edge petition tops 2,000 as ACT considers city limits
6+ day, 23+ hour ago (638+ words) Canberra’s future western limit is becoming a flashpoint: more than 2,000 people have signed a petition calling on the ACT Government to keep almost 10,000 hectares of bushland, farms, and endangered habitat out of future development plans. The ACT Government will set…...
Another poll shows One Nation’s surge has turned around. Has the party peaked?
6+ day, 21+ hour ago (954+ words) by Josh Sunman, Flinders University In the months since the Bondi terror attack in December 2025, One Nation’s popularity has surged. Opinion poll after opinion poll has support for the right-wing populist party surging, mostly at the expense of the Coalition,…...
The 4.4% paradox: Why are Canberra’s unemployed ignoring 1,000 open jobs?
1+ week, 3+ day ago (801+ words) When now 32-year-old, Nabin KC arrived in Australia from Nepal a little over ten years ago. he was not thinking about the 5.7% Australian unemployment rate. Whilst he had no money, Nabin didn’t arrive completely empty handed. He had made a…...
Relief in sight for London Circuit businesses
1+ week, 4+ day ago (631+ words) After more than a year of disruption from light rail works, Civic businesses around London Circuit may finally have some relief in sight. Since February 2025, the western side of London Circuit has been closed to regular traffic for work on…...