Sally Hopman

It's 18 days before Christmas, and all through the house, every creature is stirring – except for someone with nous.

They range from the functional to the history-making, the familiar to the sort of tunes you can't but help but raise a glass to – they are the 2024 Sounds of Australia.

It's 18 days before Christmas, and all through the house, every creature is stirring – except for someone with nous.…

Female or gender-diverse artists are invited to tender for a public artwork to honour Canberra's Stasia Dabrowski OAM, Canberra's beloved Soup Kitchen Lady.

Work will start on a long-awaited new water treatment plant for the Yass Valley in July next year and be completed by 2028, thanks to a $36 million injection of funds from the NSW and Federal governments.

When Lily Withycombe visited the Australian Museum in 1995 to see an exhibition on Pompeii, she had an epiphany.

It's been a few weeks of big news in the Yass Valley, a rural community about an hour's drive from the nation's capital that is usually best known for its fine wool and even finer wine.

It's been eight years in the process and many more in the planning, but one of the nation's greatest treasures, a 1297

Conservator Libby Melzer from the Grimwade Centre for Cultural Material Conservation at the University of Melbourne works on the Magna Carta. Photo: Grimwade Centre.

The tall, grey-curly-haired fellow stood in the corner of the National Library of Australia foyer in Canberra. He was just standing there, looking straight ahead, as if he wanted to be anywhere else.