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How to smash the take-use-toss-repeat cycle and send Canberra into an infinite spin

Catherine Carter — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 20:10:39 +0000

An artist transforms a broken TV screen into palm-sized sculpture of green-grey glass. A fashion designer creates a dress from the scraps of fabric close to hand. A cabinetmaker...

Play in the laboratory of the possible

Catherine Carter — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 19:10:12 +0000

A cardboard train… A dachshund race… A party to celebrate all things that go pop! What do these things have in common? They were all “experiments” conducted by a group...

The University of Canberra’s secret sauce solves “meaty problems”

Catherine Carter — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 19:10:29 +0000

The key to a quality education is not locked away in an ivory tower, so I have rarely paid much attention to university league tables in which ivy-clad and...

Slicing up the pie chart of happiness

Catherine Carter — Tue, 02 Nov 2021 19:00:11 +0000

Why do we paint or write poems, bake or bust out our dance moves? This is a question that Patrick McInytre, incoming CEO of the National Film and Sound Archive,...

Historians are “the worst people to predict the future”, nevertheless we asked one about life post-COVID

Catherine Carter — Sun, 19 Sep 2021 20:10:07 +0000

Historians are the worst people to predict the future, says Professor of History Frank Biongiorno. Nevertheless, I asked Frank to join me for a Salon Canberra webinar earlier this month...

Why Canberra’s creativity is not locked down

Catherine Carter — Sun, 29 Aug 2021 20:10:50 +0000

Way back in 2020, when lockdowns were a novel idea, we were urged not to waste a moment of our downtime. Isaac Newton, we were told, laid the groundwork for...

Glorious green: how nature can revive and restore our cities

Catherine Carter — Sun, 23 May 2021 20:15:29 +0000

Catherine Carter argues the importance of green spaces to our cities, ourselves and our resilience. Hear the word ‘nature’ and most of us picture the wildness of a forest or...

How Canberra’s Handmade turned tragedy into staggering success

Catherine Carter — Sun, 04 Apr 2021 20:15:19 +0000

In March 2020 Julie Nichols received just six days’ notice that her regular Handmade Canberra markets were cancelled, thanks to COVID-19. “We’d organised everything—advertising, venues, wages, stallholders. Everything. Hundreds of...