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Canberra's own Lucy Sugerman hit the stage at Blackbird last weekend to delight her audience with a live performance.

Shelly Thomson, Matt Kemp and Kerstyn Dance.

The parsnip gift was washed, chopped and roasted, tender to its core. Picture: Elesa Kurtz

It's time for pruning, persimmons and parsnips.

Getting to the root of parsnips

Jasper Lindell

The ACT government said it would appoint a new public transport ticketing system provider soon. Picture: Elesa Kurtz

The procurement process for the new system - which will be cashless and allow travellers to pay their fares with their credit cards and smart phones - is in the final stages.

Long-awaited public transport ticket overhaul contract yet to be awarded

Canberra water users would pay more under a pricing proposal put forward by Icon Water to cover growing infrastructure costs. Picture: Sagi Biderman

Icon Water said the typical water customer in the ACT would face a 4.5 per cent annual increase to their water bill in the five years to 2028 if their plan was approved.

Water and sewerage bills in ACT could soon be going up

Peter Brewer

Secrecy surrounds the death of a man killed while working at Duntroon on June 4. Picture: Elesa Kurtz

An investigation, now in its fourth week, has failed to shed any light on the circumstances of how a man died in the grounds of Duntroon.

Shroud of secrecy surrounds death of contractor at Duntroon

Miriam Webber

Hannah Andrevski with some of her volunteers at Roundabout Canberra, which gives children's items to families in need. Picture: Elesa Kurtz

Volunteering dropped in the 2021 census, likely due to the disruption of COVID.

Volunteering numbers drop as nature of role changes

Facilitator Aaron Chatfield helps sisters Phoebe and Imogen King to paint boomerangs during NAIDOC week activities on Monday. Picture: Karleen Minney

Kids get lesson in Indigenous art and culture.

Children get NAIDOC lesson from the art

Socials: Listening to Lucy Sugerman

Canberra's own Lucy Sugerman hit the stage at Blackbird last weekend.

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Resilient: Hayley Linea moved to Camden with her children Poppy Hallack, 5, and Luke hallack, 8, earlier this year. Picture: Sylvia Liber

Roads cut off, hundreds of residents evacuated, businesses underwater - flood devastation has returned to south west Sydney.

Devastation returns in fourth flood of year

Torrential rain is likely to see many Sydney areas exceed March and April's flood levels.

Thousands more hit with evacuation orders

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is due to visit flood-affected areas in Sydney later this week.

PM to travel to flood-ravaged Sydney

More than 20 million tonnes of grain is stuck in war-torn Ukraine, President Zelenskiy says.

Ukraine seeking grain guarantee: Zelenskiy

GRIM REALITY: Australia has now recorded more than 10,000 deaths with COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic. Picture: FILE

The average of 50 deaths per day would be equivalent to a passenger bus crashing and killing every passenger on board every single day.

Socials: Listening to Lucy Sugerman

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