Georgia Stynes

For more than 50 years artists and art lover have sought out the Queanbeyan Arts Society on the picturesque banks of the Queanbeyan River. 

The marsupials return to the state for the first time in more than a century

Photographer Spiros Coutroubas has compiled images of the people and moments from Belconnen Mall from the 80’s and 90’s.

The YMCA’s closure of the Chifley Health and Wellness and the Exercise Physiology service has left a community of Canberra’s most vulnerable people without an accessible, safe place to work-out. Jorge E Garcia lives with chronic pain, his wife has Parkinson’s disease and they walk a neighbour who has severe anxiety to the gym most days. Jorge spoke to Georgia Stynes.

Australian National University professor Alan Gamlen, an expert on human migration and mobility, came into Mornings to talk Net Overseas Migration (NOM) and to help us have a frank and well-informed discussion about migration.

For many types of cancer, the message is to get tested; think about cervical cancer and pap tests, breast cancer and breast screening, skin cancer and skin checks, and bowel cancer screening. The best advice for prostate cancer differs, so what are you supposed to do?

Meet Louise. She’s a horse dentist

You may know it as the ANU School of Art and Design, but it started as Canberra’s first purpose-built government secondary school, and cost 75,000 pounds.  In World War II the central clock tower had a klaxon horn installed on the front façade to warn students of air raids. Controversially the site (chosen in 1933) contravened the Canberra Plan, terminating the main access road of Liversidge St into the city, and intruded into the dedicated university site which Walter Burley Griffin had set aside. 

Canberra Health Services walks back a proposal to block non-ACT residents from accessing specialist medical appointments at the Canberra Hospital, as part of its plan to reduce massive patient backlogs.

When Kate was diagnosed with an aggressive and advanced breast cancer her life became a flurry of hospital appointments and surgeries.  Fast forward a few years and Kate is cancer free, but lives with daily chronic pain as she waits for reconstructive surgery.