Maximise your savings
Phillip Thomson EVEN if you're selling corn starch cutlery and plates made from sugarcane fibre, Maryke Booth is proof you can always do more to help the world - and save several hundred dollars a month.
Ivory chess set beats embargo
Phillip Thomson THE ivory chess set sitting in this Deakin house would probably be banned from sale if it wasn't so old.
Gruelling, but that's the army for you
Phillip Thomson DUNTROON Staff Cadet Alex Reichstein started with about 150 classmates, and now only around a third of them are left.
Heroes, miracles and survival
Phillip Thomson AS ZARTASH SARWAR lay on a hospital bed attached to a breathing machine, her parents could do nothing but pray for her to live.
Butterflies come with a cutting edge
Phillip Thomson LEILA Haddad likes reading and wearing dresses but she also makes a mean hunting knife.
Police chase ends in woman's driveway, and then court
Phillip Thomson A PREGNANT mother of six who led police on a car chase to her own Canberra driveway in the early hours of Saturday morning has been granted bail.
A labour of love for rookie nurses
Phillip Thomson At the age of 21, Rachael Williams has already delivered 100 babies. Although ‘‘delivered’’ is not quite the correct term.
Hospital offers hotline to emergency
Phillip Thomson CANBERRA Hospital is trialling a program whereby family and friends can call intensive care and emergency department staff themselves if they think a patient is dying, ACT Health has confirmed.
Lucky escape just another chapter in Rudy's life
Phillip Thomson IT'S AMAZING that Rudy Meyer hasn't managed to kill himself yet, though as he said from his Canberra Hospital bed,''It's not through lack of trying.
Membership drive puts the wind in their sails
Phillip Thomson FRED KASPAREK calls it ''chess on the water'' and boasts of it being cheaper than mountain biking.
Renovators no longer a delight
Michael Inman, Phillip Thomson ONCE the bastion of energetic bargain hunters, Canberrans appear to be falling out of love with the slightly battered properties optimistically described as the renovator's delight.
Apprentice Sara's a cut above the rest
Phillip Thomson A CANBERRA hairdresser has been named Australian Apprentice of the Year.
Our dream machine runabouts
Phillip Thomson WITH a top speed that sits north of 200km/h and an eye-watering price-tag to match, these super cars may look about as far from the family runabout as a car can get.
Accident points up road risk
Phillip Thomson THREE high school students running to lend a hand to a boy given a bloodied nose by a car door was a reminder of the dangerous road about which their principal has been complaining for years.
City with a growing thirst
Phillip Thomson A FAMILY of three living in Canberra that wanted to rely solely on rainwater would need an 1000 square metre roof, to meet current usage patterns.
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Going ballistic on top security
Phillip Thomson IT IS not hard to guess Trevor Leisk's clientele. Although the top-class locksmith with the Essex accent won't reveal his customers, it is important to note he works in a town of spies, diplomats,...
School's heroes wars apart
Phillip Thomson THEY were two adventurous men from Canberra who did not know each other but were tied together by their school, their experience of war and a sad historical fact - the day they died.
Memorial for Jews' saviour
Phillip Thomson A CANBERRA memorial will soon honour a man who saved tens of thousands of lives and whose death remains a mystery.
Patience is at a premium for insurance customers
Phillip Thomson SOME insurance customers are paying higher premiums than necessary because they are not prepared to spend longer on the phone going through the details of their policies.
Chocolate treats provide sweet relief from naming controversy
Phillip Thomson PRINCE CHARLES and the Duchess of Cornwall found a very Australian way to defuse the controversy over the renaming of Parkes Place to Queen Elizabeth Terrace on Saturday - by using a packet of Tim...
