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4 days ago | 
abc.net.au | Elizabeth Byrne |Charlotte Gore
The 59th annual National Folk Festival is on in Canberra after last year's event faced falling attendance and ticket sales combined with rising costs. Artistic co-director Holly Downes says the festival has turned a corner, in part because it offers a wider range of entertainment than some other music festivals. Organisers are already making plans for next year's milestone, with the National Folk Festival to celebrate 60 years of music and dancing.
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3 weeks ago | 
abc.net.au | Penny Travers |Charlotte Gore
The outgoing head of orthopaedic surgery at Canberra Hospital says the loss of a sixth surgeon is "not surprising" given changes to operational procedures he says "all of the directors of department hate". "There is no surgeon in the hospital who's happy about this," Professor Paul Smith said. "The system is really not conducive to a satisfactory standard of practice for the clinicians who are progressively being disenfranchised in that whole process.
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1 month ago | 
abc.net.au | Charlotte Gore |Harry Frost
Having started in the industry as a casual bar worker, Canberra restaurateur Ross McQuinn sees merit in a portable long service leave scheme for the sector. "A portable long service leave scheme is a great thing for hospitality. I think that it will encourage retention in the industry," he said.
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2 months ago | 
abc.net.au | Charlotte Gore |Lish Fejer
When Tim Ceaser's wallet flew out the window of his car as a 19-year-old, he thought it was gone forever. But 30 years later a friend sent him a stranger's Facebook post in the Queanbeyan Community Notice Board group looking to reunite the wallet with its owner. "Like a lightning bolt struck me, it took me straight back to the time living in Queanbeyan and I lost my wallet," he said.
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2 months ago | 
abc.net.au | Charlotte Gore |Rosie King
When Olga Rogacheva's two-year-old daughter Lily needed her tonsils and adenoids removed, she was told the wait to have the operation through the public system could be up to 10 years. The news devastated Ms Rogacheva, who said she felt the public health system was failing her family. "When we needed it the most we couldn't get access to it," she said.
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Dec 16, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Charlotte Gore
A homeless Canberra man has successfully appealed a charge for unauthorised camping in the ACT Supreme Court. The man was found guilty of unauthorised camping on unleased national land in November last year after sleeping in his car in an unrestricted carpark. He appealed the ACT Magistrates Court decision, his main complaint being that he was not camping and therefore should not have been found guilty.
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Dec 14, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Charlotte Gore |Courtney Peters
Earlier this year more than 40 traditional costumes "rich in cultural heritage" were stolen from the Slovenian Australian Association. Now the community is banding together and holding sewing bees to recreate the historically significant costumes. Canberra president of the Slovenian Australian Association, Natasha Kapusin, told ABC Radio Canberra the stolen costumes included dancing outfits and a wedding dress.
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Dec 1, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Charlotte Gore
The interim Vice Chancellor of the University of Canberra (UC) Professor Stephen Parker has resigned. He was appointed to the role in September at the request of the UC Council to prepare a 2025 budget for the university, which is currently struggling with large financial deficits. That budget was due to be handed down this Friday.
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Dec 1, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Charlotte Gore
A major exhibition showcasing the work of one of Australia's most influential photographers has opened at the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) in Canberra. The Carol Jerrems: Portraits exhibition coincides with the 50th anniversary of her landmark publication, A Book About Australian Women. Jerrems's career spanned just 12 years, from 1967 when she was in art school until her death, at the age of 30, of a rare liver disease called Budd-Chiari syndrome.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Charlotte Gore
From tomorrow Canberra's bus and light rail services will begin charging fares again as they introduce a new ticketing system. Public transport in the national capital was fare-free for over two months as Transport Canberra transitioned to the MyWay+ system. The new system allows users to tap on and off at a validator with a new MyWay+ transport card or certain contactless bank cards.
