Australian Capital Territory holidays
Walk this way: new Australian hikes to try in 2026
From accessible urban strolls to multi-day treks through world heritage-listed sites, walkers are spoiled for choice
Summer essentials
‘You can’t just do a quick wee, you’ll be there for an hour’: Australian readers’ favourite highway pit stopsFrom natural springs and lookout points to country bakeries with the ‘best sausage roll of my life’, readers share where they rest and refresh on a long drive
Canberra hyperlapse: a year walking 145km around Australia’s capital – squeezed into seven minutes
David Fanner spent 12 months documenting the Centenary Trail that circles the ACT – showcasing the stunning beauty and quiet rhythms of Ngunnawal and Ngambri country
Cellar doors and sunsets: romantic Australian mini-breaks under $500
Getaways in every state and territory to deliver honeymoon feelings, without the luxury price tag
The altruists
Sandra Mahlberg: 'We don't realise how spoilt we are in Australia'What does it take to offer help with little expectation of reward? Our series The altruists focuses on those who do just that, such as this retired nurse who helps underprivileged children
Perth woman wins right to take dead partner's sperm to ACT
WA supreme court grants 42-year-old right to use extracted sperm in bid to become pregnant
South Australia and ACT outvoted on national energy guarantee
Government secures agreement to continue work on its proposed mechanism without direct comparison with alternative schemes
Australian road deaths rise for second year, reaching almost 1,300 in 2016
Two successive rises in the number of annual road deaths have bucked a long-term downward trend since 1970, when 3,798 people died
Innovations in renewables
Hydrogen cars and electrolysers: the dawn of Australia's hydrogen economy?Two large-scale hydrogen facilities in the ACT could mark a turning point in the use of clean tech for transport and heating
Bushfires: 10 homes lost in Victoria before cool change sweeps through
Residents in areas surrounding the Barnawartha blaze told to evacuate and a fire in NSW breaks containment lines
Ash cloud's return causes flight chaos in Australia
Ash from Chile's Cordón Caulle volcano grounds domestic flights in and out of Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra
