Double delight a tough task for first-time mothers
Megan Doherty, Jacqueline Williams First-time motherhood is usually an exquisite combination of joy and shock but the emotions - and sheer hard work - only multiply when there is more than one baby.
Portrait gallery welcomes change
Megan Doherty The National Portrait Gallery will be able to pursue more private sector funding once it becomes a stand-alone statutory authority.
Couple say finally, and it's now Australia's turn
Megan Doherty Catalina Parish, who tied the knot with her girlfriend Aimee Moore in Canberra the day before Valentine's Day two years ago, was feeling emotional yesterday in the wake of United States President...
Gallery shrugs at $37m Elvis
Megan Doherty The National Gallery never talks figures, financial ones anyway. But it is well aware of the value of a screenprinted painting of a young snake-hipped Elvis Presley by Andy Warhol which has been...
... and they call it puppy love
Megan Doherty As an adorable puppy licked his face, ACT Liberal Senator Gary Humphries joked there was ''probably bits of food still stuck in my beard''.
No sale, Burch tells family wanting the house in which it grew up
Megan Doherty The ACT government has decided to keep hold of a public housing home that a local family with long ties to it had been seeking to buy.
Battle of the cultural giants: White v Whiteley
Megan Doherty Close to the 20th anniversary of artist Brett Whiteley's death and the 100th anniversary of writer Patrick White's birth, the National Portrait Gallery has thrown a focus on the two men's tempestuous...
Humphries accuses govt of running down national institutions
Emma Macdonald, Megan Doherty Arts Minister Simon Crean has defended the federal government's spending on Canberra's national institutions, saying funding shortfalls were due to depreciation and internal revenue drops - not the...
I'll keep on talking the walk: Brown
Megan Doherty Soon-to-retire Greens Senator Bob Brown has vowed to continue pushing for a better pedestrian route between Civic and Parliament House long after he leaves parliament.
The perilous path to Parliament gets a budget look-in
Megan Doherty Greens Senator Bob Brown once said tourists walking from Civic to Parliament House "end up running for their lives" and "scrambling up banks through trees" such is the unfriendly nature of the road...
500 trees down, 400 to go
Megan Doherty The ACT government says it is on track for the removal of dead, dying or hazardous trees despite criticism from the opposition that it is going too slow.
Vodafone sorry over Duffy tower mistake
Megan Doherty Vodafone has apologised for misleading residents about its plans to build a new mobile phone tower in Duffy.
Gungahlin internet customers to get compensation
Megan Doherty TransACT chief executive officer Ivan Slavich says the company will offer compensation to Gungahlin residents affected by internet outages this week.
Antarctic diaries reveal drama of Mawson trek
Megan Doherty Marjorie Collins remembers her uncle - the pioneering Antarctic geologist Frank Stillwell - as an unassuming gentleman.
$1m for Tuggeranong park revamp
Megan Doherty A viewing tower, a cafe and new paths that separate cyclists from other users are some of the ideas raised already by the public for a revitalised Tuggeranong Town Park.
Gungahlin residents angry over TransACT internet outages
Megan Doherty About 800 Gungahlin residents have been left with intermittent internet access for the last five days, leading some frustrated customers to call on TransACT to lift its game and even ask for...
Value of ACT inventors patently obvious
Megan Doherty For some it started as a ''joke around the camp fire''; for others it came after years of scientific research.
Views invited for Immigration Place
Megan Doherty The community will have input into the design brief for Immigration Place which is to be developed in the Parliamentary Triangle following the failure of the Immigration Bridge project to go ahead.
Libs claim arts habit costs ACT $4300 a day
Megan Doherty The ACT opposition claims the government has spent on average about $4300 a day on public art since 2007. The government's figures suggest the amount on average is closer to about $4000 a day.
Govt's funding 'redirection' kills off community events
Megan Doherty The ACT government says its decision to scrap community events including the Mother's Day Party in the Park is not penny pinching but a ''redirection of funding''.
