Genevieve Jacobs

The painting is stunning: vivid greens and blues and lazy long loops of yellow weave across the canvas, dappled with Canberra's native bluebells, eucalypt blossoms and kangaroo tracks.

It's a common scenario: you're pregnant or have a baby, perhaps a toddler (or both). Nothing seems easy any more. Not sleep, not relationships, not even the love you're supposed to feel for your child. But it's meant to be the most wonderful time of your life, right?

Rebekah Weddell with her artwork, Communities. Photo: Michelle Kroll.

Former Liberal Member for Eden-Monaro and committed environmental repair advocate Gary Nairn AO has died at the age of 73 after a period of illness.

It's cold, isn't it? The winds off the Brindabellas are icy and snow isn't far away. It's almost dark as we drive home or ride the bus in our puffer jackets.

A gentle, cheerful man who passionately loved the theatre, Stephen Pike, has died at the age of 69.

Start the conversation “Desperate would be the word, desperate,” says Kirstie Baker.

Author Charlotte Wood, who spent her childhood in Cooma, has been long-listed for one of the world's most prestigious literary awards, the Booker Prize.

Australia has few billionaires, and fewer still whose central cause in life is to help others.

Start the conversation “Those who don't know Terry know him for the structures he built, but those who do know Terry know him for the people