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Council AGM for Weston Creek region

Council AGM for Weston Creek region

Tom Anderson, chair

LET THE GAMES BEGIN: Laser pointer - check. Energetic cat - check. Now it's play time!

Boisterous Todd wants to play

Progress on the shared path bridge.

Shared path on track for next month

Cr Tim Overall, mayor

FRESH MEAT: Katherine Newbury (Emma Thompson) is a little too comfortable in her comfort zone, but refuses to be replaced.

A host who's too late and running dry

Stefan Kussy

CONNECTIONS: A section from Study Nature by Emily Birks. View all the works at the Tidbinbilla Visitors Centre from August 31 until December 5.

Animals shine in portraits

Brett McNamara

Man killed in motorcycle crash near Queanbeyan

Man killed in motorcycle crash near Queanbeyan

Grants are available for projects that help your school engage with the community.

Could your school do with $70K? Funding up for grabs in Queanbeyan

Phil Mayne

Council AGM for Weston Creek region

Council AGM for Weston Creek region

Tom Anderson, chair

LET THE GAMES BEGIN: Laser pointer - check. Energetic cat - check. Now it's play time!

Boisterous Todd wants to play

Emergency or not? Well, it depends on where you live, it seems. Photo: Shutterstock

REAL AUSTRALIA
Climate emergency or just rubbish?

Minor premiers: The Queanbeyan Blues pose with the plate after defeating the Tuggeranong Bushrangers last weekend. Photo: Canberra Region Rugby League.

Queanbeyan Blues claim Minor Premiership at eleventh hour

Zac Lowe

Shot: Emma Rowcliffe was the second-highest scorer for the Yowies. Photo: Zac Lowe.

Queanbeyan Yowies bounced in semi-finals by Coffs Harbour

Zac Lowe

Brave the weather - it'll be worth it

Brave the weather - it'll be worth it

Adam Samios

Minor premiers: The Queanbeyan Blues pose with the plate after defeating the Tuggeranong Bushrangers last weekend. Photo: Canberra Region Rugby League.

Queanbeyan Blues claim Minor Premiership at eleventh hour

Hang on: The Tigers couldn't stop Belconnen on Saturday. Photo: Burney Wong.

Queanbeyan Tigers narrowly sunk by Belconnen Magpies at home

Zac Lowe

Cross over: Fonua Tonga crosses for one of his three tries, which helped to set up a dominant victory over the Tuggeranong Bushrangers for the Roos, and confirm a finals spot. Photo: Burney Wong.

Kangaroos dominate Bushrangers to confirm finals berth

Zac Lowe

Banning Australian producers from using European product names would hurt the industry, farmers say.

Farmers warn of harm from EU food name ban

Matt Coughlan

Hot cross buns will be baked all year round at one supermarket chain in response to customer demand.

Don't be cross, get your hot buns all year

Hymnfest 2019: Katie de Veau performs at Hymnfest 2019. Photo supplied.

De Veau set to star at Hymnfest

Banning Australian producers from using European product names would hurt the industry, farmers say.

Farmers warn of harm from EU food name ban

BIG SMILES: North of Eden's Gavin Hughes and Karen Touchie are "over the moon" they took home silver and bronze in an international competition. Picture: David Rogers

Start-up gin distillery takes on the world

Albert McKnight

Former chef Michael Robinson is behind Hungerford Meat Co in Branxton.

'Why we are going back to old school butchering'

Lucy Kinbacher

Popular choice: Owning a mobile phone is a necessity for just about everyone these days, but did you know that there are 2.5 billion of us that use Android making it the world's most popular operating system.

How to find the perfect phone for you

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Water villas at the Maldives at sunrise. The islands of the Maldives are explored by boat, revealing pristine beaches and abundant wildlife.

A delightful Indian Ocean island cruise

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CoralWatch invites visitors to don virtual reality headsets to immerse themselves in a coral reef.

A week of wonders

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Popular choice: Owning a mobile phone is a necessity for just about everyone these days, but did you know that there are 2.5 billion of us that use Android making it the world's most popular operating system.

How to find the perfect phone for you

Stage 1 at Villa Estate in Bungendore is all but completed, and construction of Stage 2 is well and truly underway. These independent-living villas for over 55s or people with a disability are being sold with freehold title, so each resident will own their villa.

Downsizing is something best done sooner than later

Sam Hollier

Dr. Matthew Spargo (left) has recently joined Dr. Richard Barry (right) at Blink Eye Clinic's ophthalmology facility in Barton.

Strabismus affects as many as one in twenty Australians

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Strata Community Association ACT president Chris Miller, who has welcomed the ACT government's plans to overhaul the rules governing high-rise living. Picture: Jamila Toderas

Groups welcome ACT's 'fairer' strata laws

Dan Jervis-Bardy

An example of the type of inflatable adventure park, which is planned for Lake Burley Griffin this summer. Picture: National Capital Authority

Lake Burley Griffin inflatable adventure park given the green light

Cassandra Morgan

Strong population growth in Canberra is helping the territory's economy. Picture: Dion Georgopoulos

Canberra's economy booming thanks to population growth, housing market

Daniella White

MANLY DREAMING: Architects Angelo Candalepas and Glenn Murcutt with Royal Far West chief Lindsay Cane.

Royal Far West centre to get a right royal makeover

Community minded: Cameron is not only an experienced HAZMAT Sydney firefighter, he also is the head of first aid training at his local surf club at Elouera.

Giving community support a red hot go

SAFE HANDS: Pick up your 32-page farm safety guide in the July 25 edition of The Land, Queensland Country Life, Stock & Land and Stock Journal.

Time to put our farms in Safe Hands

MANLY DREAMING: Architects Angelo Candalepas and Glenn Murcutt with Royal Far West chief Lindsay Cane.

Royal Far West centre to get a right royal makeover

Dick Smith was awarded 1986 Australian of the Year for his achievements as an entrepreneur and adventurer and his contributions as a philanthropist.

Dick Smith urges Aussies to nominate now for 60th Australian of the Year

NEW FRONTIERS: An artist’s impression of the Orion spacecraft (left) approaching a space station orbiting the Moon during the Artemis program. Picture: NASA

Moon a stepping stone to the universe

By Helen Sim

Emergency or not? Well, it depends on where you live, it seems. Photo: Shutterstock

REAL AUSTRALIA
Climate emergency or just rubbish?

Ready to rock: Star filly Libertini. Picture: Yarraman Park Stud.

Off The Beaten Track: Racing's week that was

Triumphing against the odds

REAL AUSTRALIA
Triumphing against the odds

On track: Trainer Clayton Harmey

Harmey's wait to be worthwhile at Newcastle

Meme? Why are people so meme. Geddit?

REAL AUSTRALIA
Why are people so meme?

Rob Inglis

Crazy: A man races through the level crossing, right in the path of not one, but two trains. Picture: Transport for NSW

Watch the dangerous double cross in front of two NSW

Glen Humphries

'Good to have a dog in the backyard again': Sergeant Luke Warburton at home with T-Bone.

Life, near-death and man's best friend: Luke Warburton's story

Ilsa Cunningham

Life, on Australia's third-largest island. Photo: Shutterstock

REAL AUSTRALIA
Can you name our three biggest islands?

Stan Gorton

The complex world of donor conception

OPINION
The complex world of donor conception

Professor Fiona Kelly
26m ago

Free speech controversies prove instructive

OPINION
Free speech controversies prove instructive

Zoë Wundenberg

Emergency or not? Well, it depends on where you live, it seems. Photo: Shutterstock

REAL AUSTRALIA
Climate emergency or just rubbish?

James Joyce

Building Bridges to Boorowa volunteer Dick Orchard takes a break from tree planting. Photo: Andrew Scott

Tree change: How one Orchard and an army of volunteers can make a difference

Geraldine Cardozo

Taryn Tottman said the life sentence for murdering her sister and family is "extremely suitable".

Dad never to be free for WA family murders

Angie Raphael

Kookaburras to Mr Whippy. What does Australia sound like to you?

Kookaburras to Mr Whippy. What does Australia sound like to you?

Activists will rally at NSW parliament when the abortion bill is debated in the upper house.

Upper house to debate NSW abortion bill

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State and federal ministers want food authorities to look at compulsory added sugar labels.

Food review to look at added sugar labels

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The federal cabinet is on Tuesday expected to consider draft laws to protect religious freedoms.

Fed cabinet to consider religious freedoms

42m ago

Yes, we are begging: Baradine CWA pleads for help in drought work

Yes, we are begging: Baradine CWA pleads for help in drought work

56m ago

Detective Sergeant Laura Beacroft at the William Tyrrell (inset) coronial inquest in Taree.

Two car claim not corroborated, William Tyrrell inquest hears

Liz Langdale
56m ago

Former deputy prime minister Tim Fischer is reportedly seriously ill in hospital in southern NSW.

Nationals icon Tim Fischer 'gravely ill'

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Lawyer X helped police tape a conversation with Paul Dale before he was charged in 2004 for murder.

Ex-cop admits 'unethical' Lawyer X move

Karen Sweeney

Advocates say Australians living in aged care should not be restrained or medicated as punishment.

Aged care advocates air restraint concerns

Marnie Banger

The blade sheering competition placegetters, Bruce Rollinson, Goolgumbla, Jerilderie in 2nd, Shannon Mitchell, Poll Boonoke, Conargo in 1st and Tom Lilburne, Poll Boonoke, Conargo in 3rd.

All the photos from the Elders Riverina Sheep Expo

Olivia Calver

Buyer Bernie McGlinchey, daughter Grace and auctioneer Nick Harton from Jim Hindmarsh and Co with Deneen Nirvana.

Looking for vealer success from strong Limousin bull

John Ellicott

NSW DPI Cotton Researcher, Hayden Petty said their trial found planting a cover crop in between cotton improves yield.

Adding cover crops to rotation improves cotton yield

Olivia Calver

Nowhere epitomises the problems as much as Venice, which attracts 30 million tourists a year to its magnificent canals and bridges.

Top tourism spots crack down as they become victim of own success

Emma Batha, Thomson Reuters Foundation

Impressive: The view from Common Grounds and the historic wooden bridge across the Hunter.

Take time to mosey around Morpeth

John Rozentals

Two monks walk in the Sacred Garden at the heart of Lumbini. Pictures: Michael Turtle

The holiest site you've never heard of

Michael Turtle

Consider the options: As far as a lifestyle enhancing procedure, cataract surgery is very safe and one of the most effective operations with a very high success rate. But there are risks.

Q: Do I need surgery for my cataracts?

HealthShare
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JOURNEY: Irena Romeo, 73, arrived at Lee Wharf aboard the Fairsea from Naples 70 years ago. Picture: Jonathan Carroll

From Italy to Australia, 70 years ago

Phoebe Moloney

Where will it end?: Apart from the evolutionary steps of a better S Pen with more features and the phone's increased memory and improved battery life and charging times, the last step is the blurring of PC and phone.

Smartphone evolution is now a revolution

Mathew Dickerson