The 14 women who take up their roles as MLAs will do so when Australia is fighting its way out of a recession that has had an outsized effect on women.
The former UC student returns to host a talkfest about the future to celebrate the University of Canberra's 30th anniversary.
Times Past
"Not misplaced - but premature, perhaps" was the way one army officer described Canberra's newest pedestrian crossing at Russell in 1969. An article on the front of The Canberra Times on this day 51 years ago featured the crossing, which ran from a soaking-wet lawn at one side of the road to a roughly 10-foot-high bank on the other. In the space of five minutes, The Canberra Times' reporter saw three pedestrians get drenched on the lawn among all the sprinklers. READ MORE
