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New music from Marcia Hines

The Gospel According to Marcia is Hines' fifteenth studio album

Published: 1h agoWed 22 Nov 2023 at 7:21amSource: ListenTopic: Music Awards

Marcia Hines smiles in front of blank canvas in bedazzled jacket

Duration: 14 minutes 40 seconds

“They’re totally engrossed in the bear and happy”

Hand made teddy bears help kids in crisis

Published: 6h agoWed 22 Nov 2023 at 2:18amSource: ABC Radio CanberraTopic: Community Organisations

Trauma Teddies are handmade to give to kids

Duration: 9 minutes 17 seconds

Former Canberra childcare worker jailed for indecently touching young boy

Muhammad Ali is sentenced to 18 months in prison after being found guilty of indecently touching a child at the centre where he worked.

Published: 6h agoWed 22 Nov 2023 at 2:08amSource: ABC NewsTopic: Courts and Trials

A man in a suit and a grey face mask walks outside a court building.

Linda's relationship 'didn't feel bad enough to leave' — but she was experiencing economic abuse

The Australian Bureau of Statistics survey finds around 16 per cent of women have experienced some form of economic abuse. A leading women's advocate says it's a form of abuse that too often is flying under the radar.

Published: 5h agoWed 22 Nov 2023 at 3:35amSource: ABC NewsTopic: Domestic Violence

A hand holding a credit card out towards a recipient.

What's next for former military lawyer and whistleblower David McBride?

The whistleblower plead guilty to leaking classified information to the media

Published: 8h agoTue 21 Nov 2023 at 11:50pmSource: ABC Radio CanberraTopic: Laws

David McBride, wearing red glasses and looking off into the distance, outside the ACT court precinct.

Duration: 7 minutes 32 seconds

Bruce Lehrmann's defamation action against Network Ten, Lisa Wilkinson and the ABC begins today

Former Liberal staffer Bruce Lehrmann will take on Network Ten and the ABC in the Federal Court in Sydney today in defamation action over allegations he raped his former colleague Brittany Higgins at Parliament House in 2019.

Published: 12h agoTue 21 Nov 2023 at 8:13pmSource: ABC NewsTopic: Courts and Trials

Book tells tale of the Battle of Beersheeba

On October 31, 1917 the Australian Light Horse secured a necessary win during the Battle of Bersheeba.

Published: 12h agoTue 21 Nov 2023 at 8:29pmSource: ABC Radio MelbourneTopic: History

Duration: 21 minutes 26 seconds

The risks of knitting in wartime

Celebrating the trivial, the meaningless and the irrelevant untold stories that you probably didn’t need to know. Vic shares his latest round of Freaky Facts.

Published: 6h agoWed 22 Nov 2023 at 2:10amSource: ABC Radio MelbourneTopic: Comedy (Humour)

Duration: 1 minute 38 seconds

Wombat nicknamed Ian Thorpe after being rescued from Canberra pond by woman in kayak

A wombat earns the nickname, Ian Thorpe, after swimming for nearly 40 minutes before being rescued by a woman in a kayak from Yerrabi Pond in Canberra's north after a thunderstorm.

Published: YesterdayTue 21 Nov 2023 at 8:37amSource: ABC Radio CanberraTopic: Animals and Nature

A wet wombat on a footpath near a body of water.

Upgrades for vital Night Patrol Service from Vinnies

What do these two new vans mean to our community?

Published: YesterdayTue 21 Nov 2023 at 6:10amSource: ABC Radio CanberraTopic: Charities

Daniel Ross and Sean Curtis from ACT Vinnies Night Patrol with components for the fabrication of two new night patrol vans.

Duration: 11 minutes 28 seconds

Canberra woman who attacked former friend she believed had killed her dog avoids further jail

A female intruder who invaded the Canberra home of a former friend she believed had killed her dog, smashing furniture and attacking the victim, is sentenced to a nearly four-year intensive corrections order to be served in the community.

Published: YesterdayTue 21 Nov 2023 at 5:50amSource: ABC NewsTopic: Assault

The adventures of Ian Thorpe

Wombat saved from pond.

Published: YesterdayTue 21 Nov 2023 at 4:41amSource: ABC Radio CanberraTopic: Animals and Nature

Duration: 8 minutes 4 seconds

Prison pay out: Canberra inmate awarded $160,000 in compensation after violent cell extraction

The ACT Supreme Court found the man's so-called "hard extraction" from the cell involved an excessive use of force.

Published: YesterdayTue 21 Nov 2023 at 1:06amSource: ABC NewsTopic: Courts and Trials

A man being held down by three prison guards.

ACT Government to launch learner driver first aid program

The ACT Government will provide learner drivers with the opportunity to obtain basic lifesaving first aid skills and claim five hours credit against their required driving hours.

Published: YesterdayTue 21 Nov 2023 at 12:27amSource: ABC Radio CanberraTopic: Driver Education

2022 Senior Australian of the Year Valmai Dempsey in her St John uniform, with her award

Duration: 4 minutes 49 seconds

How to breathe better

Breathing correctly can have incredible health benefits.

Published: MonMon 20 Nov 2023 at 11:48pmSource: ABC Radio CanberraTopic: Health

Duration: 8 minutes 56 seconds

Community rallies for Snowy Mountains aged care home to re-open as assisted living facility

The Bombala community's success in raising $340,000 and securing a government grant will ensure an assisted living facility will reopen in early 2024 after the town lost its only aged care home.

Published: MonMon 20 Nov 2023 at 11:18pmSource: ABC South East NSWTopic: Aged Care

Currawarna aged care facility in Bombala