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03/05/2023

Our new Canberra Hospital walls will be decorated with artwork for these four talented artists! 🎨
vassallo.studio will be working on the internal walls in the waiting rooms, patient bays, staff stations, and corridors. m will be bringing life and colour to the new paediatric spaces.
will be creating the Gallery Walk works.
And Peta Kruger will be creating sculptures for the gardens and courtyards

You can read more about their work here 👉 https://www.act.gov.au/canberrahospitalexpansion/project-delivery/project-updates/artists-appointed-for-critical-services-building

02/05/2023

Last week the Haig Park Community Centre was official opened. In honour of an incredible Canberran, Sue Salthouse, it has been named the Salthouse Community Centre.

A beautiful space to bring people together, thoughtfully designed with recycled timber from lakeside Wharfs and the old Tharwa Bridge, as well as bricks from the old park depot.

01/05/2023

Okay, once and for all, where is Canberra's best Autumn street? 🍁☕️🍂

30/04/2023

To help more young people get the most out of their education, the ACT Government is piloting free breakfast and lunch three days a week at five ACT public schools.

The five ACT public schools are:
🏫 Gilmore Primary School
🏫 Richardson Primary School
🏫 Narrabundah Early Childhood School
🏫 Gold Creek School (high school campus)
🏫 Melba Copland Secondary School senior campus (years 10-12)

Rollout in schools will begin from term 3 this year and continue until the end of term 4, 2024.

This is a $1.5 million pilot program, backed by national and international research.

29/04/2023

Canberra’s first first solar powered shipping container canteen has is up at running for today’s AFL games at the Gordon district playing fields! 🌞🌞🌞

It’s equipped with six solar panels and a battery, generating 2.2 kilowatts of power to operate air conditioning, a fridge and lighting.

27/04/2023

We all need a bit of TLC now and then, even sporting legends cast in bronze!

Mal Meninga and Laurie Daley have been braving the elements out at GIO Stadium for quite some time, so we called in Gillian Mitchel from Conservation Works to give them some love.

The works were cleaned, corrosion treated and then they both received a coating of microcrystalline wax and hit with the blow torch to melt it into the bronze. Once cooled, the works were buffed to bring out the desired colour and texture of the bronze. The work took two days as Gillian thoroughly cleaned the entire works, including Laurie’s teeth!

These amazing sculptures are permanent inhabitants of GIO Stadium, created by artists Cathy Weiszmann (Mal Meninga) and Peter Corlett (Laurie Daley).

26/04/2023

It's hard to compete with a Canberra Autumn 🍂🍁

24/04/2023

Goulburn might have the Big Merino, South Aus has the the Big Lobster, and of course Coffs Harbour has the Big Banana... But has the Big Magpie eating a Big Chip.

23/04/2023

"As a teenager in the 1970s, Sarah is forced to leave her home in upstate New York to accompany a missionary to Idaho. When she falls pregnant, she is dispatched to relatives in Sydney, who place her in a home for unmarried mothers.

Years later her daughter, Bet, pieces together her mother's life story, hoping to understand her better. As she learns more about Sarah's past, Bet struggles to come to terms with her own history and identity, yet is determined to make peace with Sarah's choices before it's too late."

📚 Lucy Neave's novel "Believe in Me" has been named the 2022 ACT Book of the Year!

22/04/2023

Missing all those long weekends already?

21/04/2023

This year's National Multicultural Festival was a big one, and here are the numbers to prove it.

20/04/2023

Good morning

19/04/2023

The right to choose shouldn't rely on the ability to pay.

19/04/2023

What an awesome initiative from our ACT Youth Advisory Council!

2 in 5 people experiencing homelessness are young people.

Our incredible Canberran young people are raising awareness this Youth Homelessness Matters Day in a tangible and impactful way.

19/04/2023

Canberra's iconic concrete bus shelters are now being installed with solar lighting 💡

The ACT Government trialled new lighting at five concrete bus shelters in Mitchell, and now they are installing solar lighting at another 31 shelters across Canberra.

Some are already glowing in Dunlop, Kaleen, Hackett, Watson and Dickson.

14/04/2023

Hi boss, I'd like to lock in some leave for July please.

Yours sincerely,
Canberra

23/03/2023

Anti-discrimination laws in the ACT will be strengthened and expanded to protect the rights of every Canberran.

22/03/2023

This is big.

16/03/2023

Congratulations to Canberra's 2023 Citizen of the Year, Katrina Fanning!

We are luck to have you as such a dedicated member of our community. Thanks for all that you do.

04/03/2023

Canberra, meet your 2023 ACT Women of the Year.

A huge congratulations to:
👏🏻 2023 ACT Women of the Year - Betty Macharia
👏🏻 2023 ACT Young Women of the Year - Sophie Aboud
👏🏻 2023 ACT Senior Women of the Year - Jenny Mobbs

02/03/2023

Enlighten Festival but from AI's perspective. Did you notice straight away or did you double take?

Either way we can't wait for the real deal tonight!

25/11/2022

Festivals are back!

Be safe tomorrow.

Drink water, have fun! 🎉

22/11/2022

Who else is getting up to watch this?

18/11/2022

Welcome to the Thunder Dome!

Aka - The Brave Cave

Canberrans’ access to a new ice sports facility is a step closer after the ACT Government announced it will support a detailed proposal from Cruachan Investments Pty Ltd and Pelligra Holdings Pty Ltd.

The proposed Tuggeranong facility includes two ice rinks that comply with International Ice Hockey Federation standards and curling lanes.

The proposal is to design, construct, own, operate and maintain the new facility, to be built on Rowland Rees Crescent in Greenway.

More information will be available in the coming weeks.

17/11/2022

Good morning Canberra!

Just wanted to let you know we planted 18k more trees around the traps in the last fin year.

17/11/2022

We're getting on with building Canberra's future.

That means investing in the infrastructure that's built for Canberra, to ensure the ACT of the 2030's continues to be one of the most liveable cities in the world.

A major project that's part of our plan is the duplication and upgrade of Athllon Drive.

Today we released a design contract for the southern section. That's good progress.
Once complete the project will include:

✅duplicating the road
✅new bus stops
✅intersection improvements
✅a new pedestrian underpass under Sulwood Drive.

17/11/2022

Did you hear the good news?

Next year we'll consult on expanding the ACT Container Deposit Scheme.

We've got 366 million reasons why that's a good idea.

It'll include wine, spirit and cordial bottles.

A new player has entered the game.

11/11/2022

Wasp up? It's swarming season in the ACT.
Buzz over to https://bit.ly/3WzeJDA to find out more.

07/11/2022

Rain, hail or shine, the threatened species team at e-bike around the nature reserve to tend to native animals in the conservation programs.

22/10/2022

This is Stinker, one of the Eastern Long-Necked Turtles who calls Nature Reserve home.

These turtles sq**rt a horrible odour from glands above each leg if they feel threatened, but they're awesome to see (and smell) from a distance.

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