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Two-time LEGO Masters winners Jackson Harvey and Alex Towler have brought their incredible building skills to Canberra with their new block-inspired exhibition, Relics: A New World Rises. Relics is built on the premise that humans have been missing from the world for a long time; the reason is up to interpretation. In their place, LEGO […]

A breakdown of the latest appointments and moves in the Australian Public Service, the public services of the states and territories, and the wider public sector. APS Senior Executive Service Band 1 William Mueller has been appointed Assistant Commissioner of the Australian Electoral Commission. Stuart Gibson has been promoted to Assistant Director-General — Engineering and […]

A plan for Australians to use their superannuation to make it easier to secure a home loan is set to be floated by Shadow Housing Minister Andrew Bragg. Follow live.

Andrew Barr says data centres and pools won't mix in Canberra.

A human walking into a library instinctively lowers their voice. Put the same person in front of a crowd to give a speech and they will speak louder, move differently and command the room. A robot, however, may not know the difference. It might be perfectly capable of completing the task it has been programmed […]

The Narrabundah community is calling on the ACT Government to upgrade a neglected basketball court that has served the community for over 40 years. With residents no longer considering the court safe, members of the Old Narrabundah Community Council have launched a government petition to have the cement courts resurfaced and the baskets completely replaced. […]

Canberra Racing Club has announced that the Canberra Community Chest Pool has received a $15,000 bonus through a new partnership with Canberra Southern Cross Club. The 2026 Canberra Community Chest is a race-day spectacle scheduled for 22 November, with $250,000 in prize money up for grabs, plus a $50,000 community chest raised by Canberra Racing […]

Staff have approved at least four major KPMG contract variations.

'Significant investment' made to refurbish beloved community sports facility.

Talks continue to land enterprise agreements in ACT public sector.

Halfway through the term, Canberrans should expect more of their MLAs.

The Canberra charity has apologised to workers and paid arrears.

Remuneration Tribunal shows APS tightening its belt on wages and perks.

Tradie dads are burning through sick leave to spend time with newborns.

Store burgled twice in $100k bike heist.

Women report screening profiles, withholding personal information and managing interactions to protect themselves as researchers push for stronger obligations on dating platforms.

It’s bragging rights for Canberra, after the city topped an international ranking for residents’ quality of life. Economic advisory firm Oxford Economics prepares the Global Cities Index 2026 each year. It compares the 1000 largest cities in the world across five metrics: economy, human capital, quality of life, environment and governance. For the second year […]

Quibbling from armchair experts really gets up my nose.

A 14-year-old girl tragically died after the car she was travelling in crashed into a kangaroo on the NSW Far South Coast. A NSW Police spokesperson said emergency services were called to the Princes Highway near Boydtown, which is south of Eden, around 9:40 pm on Saturday (20 September). The spokesperson said officers arrived to […]

A suspected murder, a suspicious disappearance, a fatal hit-and-run and two women who vanished without a trace. These descriptions relate to five different people who all have three factors in common, including that they are unsolved cold cases in Canberra and have left behind devastated families haunted by not knowing what happened to their loved […]

The man died in hospital on Sunday.

Just a year after hundreds of Chinese CCTV cameras were removed from federal government buildings over surveillance fears, cameras from the same company were being used in EVs.

Australia is getting much older, and it is getting older faster than previously thought. But the major political parties are currently in a race to cut the greatest source of resilience against that trend: migration.

There will be more Australians dying than being born in the 2060s and by then artificial intelligence will have dramatically changed the economy. That’s the takeaway from the latest Intergenerational Report, released on Monday (21 September) by Treasurer Jim Chalmers during a speech at Australian National University. The report, prepared by Treasury, outlines the challenges […]

He allegedly sped through a red light and drove on footpaths.

Younger Australians are better educated and likely to live and work longer, but are missing some of the early income and wealth gains enjoyed by previous generations, according to a new report.

Canberra apartment owners could find it easier to make decisions at strata meetings, while landlords would have fewer hurdles to replacing gas appliances with electric ones under new laws introduced in the ACT Legislative Assembly. Attorney General Tara Cheyne introduced the Housing and Consumer Affairs Legislation Amendment Bill 2026, which makes changes across strata properties, […]

Not all of us can scoot down to the South Coast to cool off.

The company indirectly discriminated against the worker.

Parents of public school students were notified of the cancellations last week.

The population will reach almost 40 million people by 2066 as Australians live longer but have fewer children, according to new projections.

ACT government post rewards for decades-old cold cases.

How to navigate the health system when looking for migraine help.

Questions have been raised around staff pay at one of the firms.

Union not happy with Commonwealth positions.

Lagging fines and inadequate powers among community concerns.

Australia is debating population numbers, but perhaps weak productivity is the real problem, and Canada's approach offers some answers.

Anthony Albanese plans to trade on Australia's good name and international reputation as he officially launches the campaign for a two-year term on the powerful United Nations Security Council.

Under a new policy announced today, the Coaltion says it will halve the fuel excise when the global price of oil reaches an average of $US100 a barrel over a two-week period if elected.

Anthony Albanese urges China and the US to work together to mitigate AI risks "in the interests of humanity".