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  • 1 week ago | hercanberra.com.au | Emma MacDonald |Emma Macdonald

    If travelling to warmer climes is on your immediate list of priorities, then put Vietnam to the top of that list. It has everything you need for a quick (or long) break from the Canberra winter, it’s a relatively short and cheap flight away (less than nine hours from Sydney) and your budget will not be constrained in the same ways it would with a trip to Europe or the US.

  • 1 month ago | hercanberra.com.au | Emma MacDonald |Emma Macdonald

    When chef Aiden Xindavong and his wife Bianca Fong opened their Laotian Kingston restaurant Champi, it was a gamble. The young couple, new to Canberra and with a baby to care for, were trying to crack into a notoriously fickle industry. But three years on, their authentic, humble, and unhurried approach to the flavours and traditions of Laos has paid off in spades.

  • 1 month ago | hercanberra.com.au | Emma MacDonald |Emma Macdonald

    Every morning of their lives together, Fiona Lynch-Magor and her husband Richard would begin with a conversation about what they were going to cook and eat together that day. In a way, Fiona is keeping that connection to her beloved late husband, by chucking in a traditional Public Service day job and opening her own cooking school, Food for Taught.

  • 1 month ago | hercanberra.com.au | Emma MacDonald |Emma Macdonald

    Trigger warning: This story discusses sexual assault and rape. At 75 years of age, Brenda Colbourne is an unlikely convert to tattoos. Yet this Canberra retiree now proudly sports several of them. Survivor is emblazoned across one forearm – testament to her surviving multiple sexual assaults from the age of 14 through to a rape with injuries at age 25. The former enrolled and registered nurse has “I Have a Voice” on her right hand, and “I Will be Heard” on her left.

  • 1 month ago | hercanberra.com.au | Emma MacDonald |Emma Macdonald

    If you were just as likely to follow Hannah Ferguson’s Cheek Media  for political analysis during the election campaign as The ABC, then clear your Wednesday on 14 May as she is coming to Canberra to dissect how the New Media and Gen Zs have impacted on the result. Hannah will present a National Press Club Address for Women in Media, entitled “The election of influence: how new media will shape the future of Australian politics”.

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Emma Macdonald
Emma Macdonald @EmmaSMacdonald
14 Jun 22

RT @withMEAA: Congratulations also to two-time Walkley winner and @WIM_Aus ACT convenor @EmmaSMacdonald for her OAM. https://t.co/TeDF3i4Po…

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Emma Macdonald @EmmaSMacdonald
10 Dec 21

RT @larastimpson: Utmost thanks + gratitude to the incredible @EmmaSMacdonald, @AmyRemeikis + @samanthamaiden for sharing so openly with me…

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Emma Macdonald @EmmaSMacdonald
10 Dec 21

RT @GrogsGamut: An article by @larastimpson, a student in my journalism unit at @UniCanberra, on the impact on women of covering #metoo…