Gemma Killen News Today

For the first time, Canberra charities are finding full-time public servants, nurses, teachers and police officers are regularly needing their help to make ends meet.

Advocates have condemned the ACT's two-stage plan to raise the age.

The federal council wants JobSeeker and Youth Allowance to be increased up to $76 more a day.

So we have a wilfully low-key NYE. It involves just the two of us. We drive up to the servo early, and get a bucket of KFC. We come back to our house and – under Christmas lights that we keep up specifically for this purpose – we hose our balcony. All the detritus of the year is washed away. Then we put garlands on our heads, light sparklers, listen to the countdown and take a couple of seconds to hear the cheer go up in the air above our little country town. We do indulge an annual b...