🚤 Paddleboats for hire will be relaunching on Lake Burley Griffin this weekend with a new and improved pedal-powered fleet.
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🎥 Reporting by Lish Fejer
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Much like ABC TV’s award-winning series ‘Old People’s Home for Teenagers’, Club Kalina in Tuggeranong offers students the opportunity to develop social bonds while contributing in a meaningful way to their local community.
The initiative launched in the ACT three years ago and offers inclusive and meaningful engagement through daytime activities for adults living with disabilities like dementia, Parkinson’s disease, Autism Spectrum Disorder and Down syndrome.
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'Turned on us like rats.'
Major disruption has hit city centres across Australia as tens of thousands of tradies walk off the job in protest against the forced administration of the construction arm of the Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union (CFMEU).
National secretary Zach Smith delivered a defiant message to protesters in Canberra.
🎤 via ABC Canberra by James Vyver
ACT police seized 1,000 cannabis plants and half-a-million dollars in cash as part of a national, multi-agency operation executed last week.
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The ACT’s population is expected to crack 500,000 in 2027, and 750,000 by 2060.
In the lead-up to the territory election in October, the ACT’s three main parties have expressed different ideas about how to cater for this growth.
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An ACT Supreme Court judge has taken a swipe at police over their use of a taser in the arrest of a 22-year-old man after a dramatic car chase in Canberra last year.
📷 Supplied
Canberra police have announced they've made their 500th arrest as part of Operation TORIC after apprehending a man hiding in the boot of a car in Florey earlier this month.
ACT Policing launched Operation TORIC in August 2022 to combat recidivist offenders involved in motor vehicle thefts, burglaries, robberies, associated dangerous driving and other crimes in the ACT.
📷 Vision supplied by ACT Policing
🦮🥰 Integra Service Dogs Australia is a Canberra-based charity that gives Labradors not suited to being guide dogs a 'career change'.
📷 via ABC Canberra by James Vyver + Don Sheil
💊 In its first two years, Canberra's fixed drug checking service, CanTEST, issued 20 community notices regarding unexpected substances and identified four previously undetected substances.
🩺 CanTEST is operated by Directions Health Services (DHS) in partnership with Canberra Alliance for Harm Minimisation and Advocacy (CAHMA) and Pill Testing Australia.
🔬 Clinical lead David Caldicott said CanTEST had been able to detect unexpected trends in drug use, some of which had global implications.
🧪 The ACT government will continue funding CanTEST until June 2027.
📷 via ABC Canberra by Don Sheil
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Allied healthcare students who are studying to meet the demand caused by the challenges of a rapidly ageing Australian population are facing a challenge all of their own.
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Australian National University students have disbanded a pro-Palestine encampment after almost four months protesting the university's investment in weapons companies they say were aiding Israel's war effort. Students involved say they came to the decision after an ongoing dispute with the university about lighting and electricity, and an update to the university's investment policy towards arms manufacturers. 🎤 Victor Petrovic via ABC Canberra #ABCNews #Canberra #ANU
🐕 Oakley the border collie is a conservation detection dog who sniffs out alligator weed in Canberra's Lake Burley Griffin for the National Capital Authority (NCA).
🌿 Each small piece of the noxious weed can potentially lead to a new infestation, but Oakley can detect the smallest fragment — even when it's dormant.
🏢 David Wright of the NCA says it will continue targeted weed control in the coming seasons, and use Oakley to audit the performance of the program.
🎥 via ABC Canberra by Lish Fejer and Michael Barnett
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It's the size of a suitcase and glitters with gold — a device that might just become the first Australian-built rover on the Moon, as part of a future NASA mission.
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Canberra's health authority has apologised for posting a video to its social media accounts that appeared to imply conditions like endometriosis and arthritis were not emergencies. Called 'Stop! Is it an emergency?', the video — which has since been deleted — stated that "not all emergency department visits need a hospital admission". 🎥 Lottie Twyford | Geo Donaldson via ABC Canberra. To read the full story or stay in the know with news you care about, download the ABC NEWS app via the link in our bio. #ABCNews #Endometriosis #Canberra
Alleged arsonist sets himself alight
🔥 An alleged arsonist set himself alight during a barbershop break-in in Canberra’s north last month.
🏋️♀️ Detective Inspector Matt Sprague said people were inside a 24-hour gym above the barbershop at the time and that it was very lucky no one was harmed.
👮♀️ He said anyone with information on the arson should contact Crime Stoppers.
📱 Full story: https://shorturl.at/oYEV2
📹 Supplied: ACT Policing – via ABC Canberra
Homemade bouldering gym in his own backyard
🧗♂️ Cam Wilson built a homemade bouldering gym in his own backyard in Canberra.
🎥 via ABC Canberra by Ainslie Macgibbon + Don Sheil
Breaking the cycle of homelessness
🏡 Damian was able to break the cycle of homelessness through St Vincent de Paul's Street to Home program in Canberra, but the process still took around four years.
📹 via ABC Canberra by Don Sheil + Adrienne Francis
😲🚆 Footage of some hair-raising near misses on Canberra's light rail has been released to mark national Rail Safety Week.
🏃♂️🚋 Transport Canberra says the footage is a reminder to people to always be aware of their surroundings when around public transport.
📹 Vision Supplied by Transport Canberra
A statue of late Labor senator Susan Ryan has been unveiled in the Senate Rose Garden at Old Parliament House in Canberra.
Ms Ryan was the first female Labor minister and steered the Sex Discrimination ACT through Parliament.
🎤 Geo Donaldson via ABC Canberra
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Is Canberra a safe city?
The Canberra Liberals say more police and amended bail laws would help to address concerns about antisocial and criminal behaviour in the territory.
The opposition has promised to employ an additional 200 police officers, and spend more than $5 million upgrading police stations if it’s elected in October.
📷 via ABC Canberra by Jostina Basta + Don Sheil
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