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are forming aren’t happening by accident. They’re happening because the amenity has been really well executed.”

Now complete and welcoming residents, Woden Green offers buyers the rare opportunity to experience exactly what they’re purchasing. Instead of imagining what life might look like, they can walk through the finished apartments, explore the gardens, visit the resident facilities and see the community already taking shape.

“For me, that’s one of the biggest differences,” Ben says. “People can come here and actually experience it. They can see the apartments, they can see the amenities and they can see the community that’s already forming.”

That sense of community is something Ben believes has been carefully designed into every aspect of the development.

From the heated indoor lap pool and private dining

room to the library, cinema, work-from-home spaces and landscaped podium gardens, the shared facilities are designed to be warm, inviting encourage residents to spend time together rather than simply pass through them.

“I’ve seen engagement parties, birthday celebrations, kids doing homework in the library, people reading books by the reflection ponds, grandparents bringing their grandkids to the pool and neighbours catching up in the dog park. That’s what good amenity should do,” says Ben. It’s these everyday moments that Ben believes create a genuine sense of belonging.

“For me, coming home should start the moment you arrive,” he says. “At Woden Green, I think people feel at home from the moment they arrive and walk through the gardens and shared spaces.”

While the community facilities are a standout feature, Ben says the apartments themselves have also been designed to remove many of the compromises traditionally associated with apartment living.

Higher ceilings, generous kitchens, ample storage and spacious living areas feature throughout the development, while even the one-bedroom apartments retain the same kitchen footprint found in the larger homes.

“Space has been a real priority,” Ben says. “Even our entry-level apartments feel generous because we’ve focused on keeping the living areas and kitchens spacious rather than scaling everything back.”

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quieter side of the town centre, and that’s something downsizers and empty nesters, who now make up people really value.” much of Woden Green’s buyer profile.

As more residents make Woden Green home, the “People often think downsizing means vision behind the development continues to come compromising,” says Ben. “I honestly believe they’re to life, with thoughtfully designed homes, premium upgrading in so many ways. They’re not just getting rid shared amenities and a growing community creating a of things they no longer need, they’re gaining a whole place people are proud to call home. level of amenity that they probably never had before.”

“We’re not just creating apartments, we’re creating Buyers are also coming from well beyond the a new neighbourhood,” Ben says. “The community Woden Valley, with strong interest from established that’s forming here is exactly what we hoped Woden Inner South suburbs including Red Hill, Forrest, Green would become.”

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Green, I are still available. To experience “We’ve actually converted a lot think people feel the completed development and of buyers from the Inner South who explore the display apartments, visit were looking for this level of quality at home from wodengreen.com.au or contact and amenity, but simply couldn’t the moment The Property Collective Projects to find it,” he says. “There are new they arrive and arrange an inspection. developments there, but because of walk through Visit the display apartments at 102 the location everything is generally Easty Street: smaller. Here, people are finding the the gardens and Saturday, 10-11:30am space and the lifestyle they’ve been shared spaces.

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Along with its generous apartments and extensive shared facilities, Ben says Woden Green’s location has become another major drawcard. Positioned on the quieter, greener eastern side of the Woden town centre, residents enjoy easy access to Westfield Woden, Canberra Hospital, restaurants, public transport and nearby Eddison Park.

“The connectivity is a big selling point,” he says.

“You’re close to the hospital, the town centre and all the amenities people use every day, but you’re also surrounded by green space. It’s on the greener,

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Bringing joy and soul: Joshua’s journey with Hotel Etico lights up Mercure Canberra

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Hotel Etico trainee Joshua Kinsey Ward and Hotel Etico CEO and Co-founder Andrea Comastri.

Earlier this year, Canberra Weekly visited Mercure Canberra to discuss the launch of Hotel Etico Australia, a hospitality social enterprise and supported-living program for young adults living with disability.

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As part of the program, trainees spend two nights a week living in the dedicated Hotel Etico wing of Mercure Canberra and are allocated shifts across various departments, including room service, housekeeping, restaurant and events.

Joshua Kinsey Ward commenced his traineeship in March.

Joshua, who lives with Down syndrome, was finishing a four-hour breakfast shift in the hotel’s Courtyard Restaurant where he was cleaning tables and chairs and resetting them for the next sitting.

Apart from his continuing improvement, “… ironing my own clothes,” Joshua reports that one of the things he has learned is how to navigate relationships with people who also live with disability.

“What else have I learned?”

Joshua says.

“To get along with other people, other people who have disabilities.”

Hotel Etico CEO and Co-founder Andrea Comastri says that this area of development in trainees is a key element of the program’s success.

“The biggest gift we give them, is the confidence in themselves,” he says.

Hotel General Manager Lukas Wilfling reports that Joshua and his trainee colleagues are an asset to the Mercure.

“Josh’s main strength, besides being a hard worker, is just that he’s so talkative,” says Mr Wilfling.

“He just loves hanging out with guests… he is… genuine.”

Mr Wilfling says that what

trainees like Josh bring to the guest experience is something that used to be a fundamental of hotel customer service, “people taking time out of their day to have a conversation with guests and provide that genuine care for people”.

Hotel Etico Australia has supported 70 trainees since its launch in Australia and now employs 57 staff across the hotel and program, including 25 current trainees; proof that disability employment scales when the model is right.

As a result of this success, Mr Comastri was a finalist in last year’s Kismet Awards for Health and Disability Services, and entries for the 2026 awards close on 17 July.

According to Joshua, everyone should be nominating Mr Comastri again this year.

“I love this guy very much. He is one of the best CEO’s I’ve ever worked with,” says Joshua.

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Interest in the site has remained strong throughout the lengthy and complex approval process. Village Building Co. CEO Rob Fisher says the announcement provides clarity for locals who have watched the site evolve over many years.

“The number one question I am asked around town is ‘what’s happening at Weston?’ and today we can answer that question with certainty,” said Mr Fisher.

“We are delighted to receive approval for this development and acknowledge the recent improvements in the ACT planning process which allow us to bring it to market. Minister Steel and his team are making real progress, and we support their continued efforts. A large site like this requires a lot of work and I extend my thanks to the many Village staff and consultants

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I was saddened to see, but not surprised, that new UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham (remember, I said he’d be worse than Sir Keir) has confirmed he will go ahead with the lunatic Chagos Islands deal, where the UK puts Western security at risk by giving the Chagos Islands (aka Diego Garcia and home to a US air and naval base in the middle of the Indian Ocean) to the Mauritian Government, then leasing them back for £35 billion for 99 years, so the Mauritian Government can then lease some of them to the Chinese. You could not make this up.

Please, Mr Trump, do something to stop this madness!

Apart from the sheer unadulterated stupidity of this “deal” – why not just keep the islands British? – it also has the hallmarks of a potential ecological disaster.

The Chagos Islands are home to a unique ecosystem and include huge, untapped native fish stocks that the Mauritian and Chinese eco-vandals would love to get their hands on, and thus destroy the fragile, pristine ecology of the islands.

The UK and US military have protected the unique ecology of the islands since the mid-1960s.

Our own ADF are also generally excellent conservationists.

I was involved from the late 1970s through to the mid-1990s in various activities in our state forests, rural and bush areas, military training areas, and field firing ranges used for military exercises and training.

As an infantry officer, I dug lots of weapon pits, created lots of defensive positions, and traversed a lot of bushland.

We would always try to put the land back to the state it was in when we finished the exercise.

The Singleton Field Firing Range was the safest place to be if you were a native animal. Whilst outside the range it was open season on kangaroos, the roos on the range thrived. The range was a haven for wildlife generally, and I recall a family of emus relocated from the Western Plains Zoo thriving and multiplying there for many years. I also remember a sergeant instructor on a mortar course being heavily fined for unlawfully shooting a kangaroo – and rightly so.

During the controversial kangaroo cull of 2009, when there were thousands of kangaroos on Majura Range near the airport, the military were very concerned to do the right thing as conservationists and limit the number culled. The range was also home to several endangered species of flora and fauna. I presided over that case as Appeals President at ACAT. As much as I condemn the idiocy of the Chinese being given the Chagos Islands on a plate by the hopeless UK Government, I feel very sorry for the fish and all the other unique marine life now threatened as a result of the UK military relinquishing ownership of the islands.

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Canberra’s ring masters

by GEORGIA CURRY

A cult wrestling movement has taken over Canberra with home-grown talent in the ring and on the ropes.

A cult wrestling movement is taking over Canberra that draws record crowds like no other city in Australia (2,400+ at AIS in 2024), and hardcore fans are driving 10 hours from Melbourne to see a match.

SLAM! Pro Wrestling League started here in 2021, but followers (6,500 on Facebook) adore our homegrown “sport theatre”, with characters like Crofty 16

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the Kambah Klepto, melodramatic soap operas and pantomime cheering and booing.

It’s a theatre-in-the-round if you like, showing good versus evil, mock violence without the gore (family-friendly, so no swearing) and spectacular pyrotechnics.

Co-owner Mark said Canberra did things differently, featuring only Australian talent and Canberra wrestlers (some are public servants and car salesmen) rather than international wrestlers.

“There’s no other promotion in the Southern Hemisphere that does our kind of numbers.”

Mark said. “No-one else has come close to 2,400 spectators since the ‘70s and ‘80s.”

The storylines are every bit as scandalous as Days of our Lives, with feuding and corruption going on in the Bronson United team (starring Canberra’s own Josh Torney of The Ned & Josh Podcast fame).

“They’ve just put one of the good guys, Hugh Beauty, in hospital at our last event but they used an illegal object to win,” Mark said. “I know local wrestler Luke Watts is looking for revenge.”

Reigning champion is Dan Archer, who’s 30 years

old and has wrestled since he was 16.

He said his body feels like he’s 45 (he’s had broken legs, broken sternum, broken collarbone and torn ligaments).

“It’s a bit of wear and tear and it’s a lot of toll on the body,” Dan said. “You’ve got to really keep yourself in good shape to be able to do this long-term.”

The fights may not be real (spoiler alert: they’re choreographed) but the pain is real because there’s nothing soft to break your fall (the 18-square-foot steel wrestling ring has a layer of wood and a small layer of padding).

Reigning champ Dan Archer is about to defend his title against Crofty the Kambah Klepto in a “no disqualification” match (anything is legal: ladders, wooden tables, steel chairs, metal bins).

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Western Edge petition tops 2,000 as ACT considers city limits

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Canberra’s future western limit is becoming a flashpoint: more than 2,000

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The ACT Government will set Canberra’s urban boundary — the hard line beyond which the city cannot sprawl — next year.

The Conservation Council ACT Region wants the government “to draw that line in such a way that protects our Western Edge for generations to come”, campaign organiser Aoibhinn Crimmins said.

“This area of bush to Canberra’s west is critically endangered, home to farming families, Indigenous sites, and a place that Canberrans just love to get out and enjoy,” Ms Crimmins said.

The Western Edge — some 9,800 hectares between the Molonglo River and the Murrumbidgee River — contains some of Australia’s last box gum grassy woodlands, and is home to threatened species such as the superb parrot, pink-tailed wormlizard, and the Murray cod.

It acts as a buffer zone for residents in Belconnen, Molonglo Valley, Weston Creek and Kambah from bushfires, extreme heat, and flooding, which the Council warns will be more frequent and severe. It also includes Ngunnawal occupation sites and trading and ceremony pathways, and is a popular spot for bushwalking, horse-riding, and boating.

The Council said the government had bought land in the Western Edge Investigation Area over two decades, and is investigating potential future uses, including urban development.

“We’re talking bulldozers rolling through this pristine environment,” Ms Crimmins said.

The government had not made any decision to develop the Western Edge Investigation Area, a spokesperson said. It is developing a landscape plan for the ACT which will include proactive protection of areas of environmental value in the Western Edge. The spokesperson said preliminary investigations have been completed, and further environmental studies are underway.

“No decisions have been made about future land uses in the

Western Edge,” the spokesperson said.

“The Conservation Council is asking the Government to make decisions before the necessary environmental studies are completed. The ACT Government is undertaking the work needed to build a robust evidence base before options and recommendations regarding future land uses are developed. This approach is intended to support informed and considered decision-making and consultation with the community.”

“They’re still only talking of plans of plans of plans,” Ms Crimmins said.

“We’re yet to have any community consultation on this significant decision of where Canberra city limits are set. They’re meant to be set in a year, and we think there needs to be much more genuine community consultation on such a big decision for our city.”

The government has set a target of 70 per cent of new housing within established urban areas and 30 per cent in greenfield locations.

The Conservation Council believes Canberra can meet housing demand through infill, missingmiddle reform, and better urban design without pushing further west.

“We want to see more houses,” Ms Crimmins said. “We think the housing crisis is just as big of an issue as the biodiversity and climate crises that Canberrans are facing, but the good news is we can actually address all three crises in the one go. We don’t have to choose one over the other.

“When you build people really far away from the things they need, that’s not a very liveable city.”

The Conservation Council will hold a campaign information night on Wednesday 22 July at the Food Co-op in the Cit, 6 to 7:30pm. It will present a proposal on how to protect the Western Edge later this year, with backing from farmers, traditional owners, and conservationists. The Council’s documentary On the Edge is on YouTube.

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Tolkien’s in town

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The Hobbit’s Bombur – aka NZ actor Stephen Hunter – comes to Canberra this weekend for Geek Expo.

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For those who’d like to suspend reality for a while and escape into fantasy, Geek Expo is on this weekend (18-19 July), and The Hobbit is here to transport you to Middle Earth.

NZ actor Stephen Hunter, who played Bombur in The Hobbit trilogy, will drive down the Federal Highway this weekend with his acting mate Matthew Doran (The Matrix and Star Wars) to greet some Canberra fans.

The last time Stephen worked in Canberra was to film a low-budget sci-fi flick, Blue World Order, and blow up Telstra Tower (there were also eight Deloreans parked on a dry Lake George).

This time round, there’s no destruction of Canberra landmarks, just autographs and selfies for Tolkien and Thor fans (Stephen also played the Fur God in Thor: Love and Thunder).

“Coming from the world of Tolkien, which I was lucky enough to do, there’s a responsibility because you’re a caretaker for this amazing world,” Stephen said. “People are genuinely excited to see you.

“Some actors don’t like conventions because a lot of actors are introverts but I’m more an extrovert. People come up and have lovely things to say to you and they’re excited to see you.”

The sheer good fortune of being in two of the world’s biggest film franchises is not lost on Stephen.

“I was lucky to make the cut in Thor: Love and Thunder because I know a lot of very big names who just missed the cut because [director] Taika Waititi shot so much film,” he said. “I’ve been in the Tolkien universe and Marvel – the only one left is Star Wars.”

Hardcore fans aren’t the only ones geeking out this weekend – even seasoned actors like Stephen geek-

out at conventions.

“Star Wars is what I geek out on and that’s always been my fandom,” he said. “At a Supanova comic convention I got to meet Christopher Lloyd from Back to the Future and I got to meet Anthony Daniels, who voiced C-3PO. My biggest fan moment was when I got to meet [Six Million Dollar Man actor] Lee Majors.”

But back to Middle-Earth, where coincidentally Stephen grew up ((if you look from the Green Dragon to Bag End in The Hobbit, the hill in the background is the farm where Stephen lived).

During the making of The Hobbit trilogy, Stephen spent two hours in make-up (and 90 mins to remove it) to recreate Bombur, which required five separate prosthetic pieces to cover his entire head (a foam cowl with ears, a wraparound face piece, a silicone chin over the foam, and a two-piece bald cap).

“I’ve got a couple of ears and a prosthetic nose that I’ll bring with me, and I’ve got my weaponry,” he said. “I also had the very first Bombur Lego figure.

“One of the great things I love about conventions and Geek Expo is that it brings it all back and reminds you of the amazing time it was. It was extraordinary and I don’t think I’ll ever do anything like that again – particularly to that scale.

“A lot of people like the character [Bombur] and they like what I’ve done and I’m very proud of what I did in the movies. When people come up, you can tell that they’re quite moved.”

Stephen had only two or three spoken lines in The Hobbit trilogy (he was mostly used for physical comedy bar a few grunts and pants). However, he did learn how to speak Dwarvish.

“I actually learned Dwarvish so I speak Australian, Kiwi and Dwarvish,” he said. “I wouldn’t say fluent. I mean, being fluent in Kiwi is just raising your eyebrows pretty much. That’s all you need to know about New Zealand, or just say ‘sweet’ and that covers everything.”

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welcomed into a space designed to promote calm, dignity and comfort – an environment that better reflects the compassion of the care being delivered.

It’s proof that community giving doesn’t replace essential healthcare; it helps create places where people feel supported when they need it most.

What could your generosity make possible next?

That’s the power of community giving.

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This year, community donations will again help fund projects that support people and families through every stage of their healthcare journey by: • Giving comfort • Powering research • Shaping tomorrow • Building community Can your business help Canberra double the impact?

On August 27, for 12 hours only, local businesses and families can become Matched Givers, pledging funds to match community donations dollar-for-dollar – doubling donations, doubling the impact made on local health services.

Our Matched Givers are the champions behind the day, dedicated to supporting the health heroes who support our families all year long.

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When Life Changes Out of the Blue, Canberra Gives For 12 hours only, double the donation, every act of generosity amplified As a Matched Giver, you’ll receive: • Recognition as an official CAN GIVE DAY 2026 Matched Giver • Acknowledgement during Mix 106.3’s live broadcasts throughout the appeal • Inclusion on the CAN GIVE DAY website, with your logo displayed alongside the live fundraising tally as donations are matched throughout the day • Recognition across Canberra Hospitals Foundation social media channels in the lead-up to, during and following CAN GIVE DAY • Inclusion in CAN GIVE DAY campaign collateral, including digital marketing, promotional materials and supporter communications where applicable • An invitation to your team to attend Canberra and North Canberra Hospitals on CAN GIVE DAY, man the Call Centre in Giving Central and be part of the Festival of Giving with local Health staff.

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Birthing Kit Assembly Day The Zonta Club of Canberra Breakfast is inviting community members to help assemble 3,000 life-saving birthing kits on Saturday 25 July, 9:30am–2pm, at 102 Wattle Street, O’Connor. The kits will be distributed to women in developing countries to support safer childbirth. Individuals, families, schools, workplaces and community groups are welcome.

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Friends ANBG Thursday Talks Friends of the Australian National Botanic Gardens will host a Thursday Talk featuring Dr John Turnbull, former Senior Research Scientist at CSIRO, on “Trees, woods and man”, tracing the importance of trees from earliest times to the present day. The talk will be held at the ANBG Theatrette, opposite the ANBG Visitor Centre, 12:30–1:30pm. Bookings: trybooking.com/DKZGH. Gold coin, note and EFTPOS donations support Friends’ special projects at the gardens.

Candid Conversations on the US midterm elections Join Lifeline Canberra for Candid Conversations on the US midterm elections on Monday 27 July, 5:30–8pm, at the ACC Centre, Charles Sturt University, 15 Blackall Street, Barton. The panel features Jared Mondschein, John Hart and Karen Middleton discussing the upcoming US elections. Tickets include a drink on arrival and light grazing table, with free parking available on site. Book via Humanitix or lifelinecanberra.com.au/events/

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Your poise under pressure is remarkable. The thing about staying cool and controlled is that it looks a lot easier than it is. If it were so easy, humankind wouldn’t have taken thousands of years to invent refrigeration. You’ll be richly rewarded this week for how you handle yourself.

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Dreams become reality when they occupy space and time, have their own date, invitation and the like. What has lived in imagination takes shape in the calendar, where progress becomes measurable. This week, your choices add up to an experience, and it’s only the beginning.

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This week highlights your ability to read people and respond strategically. You’re like that salesperson who senses a customer is intrigued, though hesitant, and provides exactly the information needed to move them closer to a purchase. That’s talent, and you’ll be paid for it in more than dollars.

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Paradoxically, there’s freedom in narrowing your options – or, even better, just pick one thing and wholly commit to it. It simplifies things by untangling several issues at once. You’ll have clarity across multiple areas of life. You’ll gain relief from no longer carrying competing possibilities.

A past influence continues to affect your choices. It’s easy to believe there are invisible ties that bind you to your people over distance, over the years and over all the changes that those years bring. In certain moments this week, you’ll know the evidence of their enduring strength.

Your responsibilities matter much less to your wellbeing than how you feel about them. The meeting isn’t just a meeting; maybe it’s an opportunity, a challenge or a privilege. So much depends on context, which colours the lens significantly and either drains or buoys your energy.

Curiosity has served its purpose, and reflection has done its job.

Even if you can’t quite put your finger on what you’ve learned, you can trust that its participation you need now, not another round of speculation. The answer isn’t hiding in a theory. It’s waiting inside your beautiful life.

Constantly performing pleasantness while suppressing everything else can leave a person disconnected from their own feelings. You need a place where you don’t have to perform.

This week, you’ll find that place in honest moments with those who make room for the real you.

This week abides by an amusement park philosophy.

You’re on a ride that has already started moving. Grabbing harder at the wheel isn’t going to determine where it goes. Your ability to influence events hasn’t disappeared; it’s just temporarily parked beside the ride.

The data is in. The answers won’t be hard to find. But the problem can’t be solved by facts. It will be solved by people. Human beings aren’t machines that respond solely to information. We exist in a mix of emotions and drives. This week, don’t mistake having the answer for having the solution.

A person who assumes goodwill may build deeper connections, but they may also miss warning signs. A person who is highly selfprotective may avoid harm, but they may also miss opportunities for closeness. This week, you find good fortune in the sweet spot of knowing how to protect yourself.

Discover. Explore. Enjoy.

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Bo Curren was once a champion surfer, until a tragic accident scared him off the waves.

Alone and depressed, Bo spends his days drinking and watching surfers via a 24-hour live webcam. However, when Bo witnesses a murder through the camera, he finds himself drawn back into his old life in Byron Bay, attempting to find the killer while being haunted by his past. Nicholas Timms debuts one of the more intriguing novels of 2026.

An addictive thriller perfectly centred around a traumatised protagonist and the Australian surf culture; The Lineup is an exceptional novel from an amazing new author.

This week, Michael Popple reviews three impressive and distinctive new Australian crime fiction novels. You can find more of Michael’s book reviews on his blog: unseenlibrary.com

We Did It Anyway by Carla Salmon

Every Time She Wakes by Petronella McGovern

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This week’s column is a little different because it’s a chance for me to say thank you. It has been a privilege to write this weekly psychology column for Canberra Weekly. Every week I’ve had the opportunity to share practical, evidence-based ideas to help make sense of the challenges we all face. We’ve explored everything from anxiety, relationships and body image to grief, confidence, parenting and emotional wellbeing. My hope has always been that these columns have helped you feel a little more understood and a little less alone.

This month, those columns have become a book. It’s Not Just You is a collection of many of the topics we’ve explored together over the past two

years, along with additional reflections and practical strategies. The title wasn’t difficult to choose because it captures the message that has become central to both my work as a psychologist and my writing that so many of the struggles we experience are shared by others.

Almost every day in my consulting room I hear someone say, “I thought I was the only one.” They think they’re the only person who worries too much, who struggles with confidence, who finds relationships complicated, who feels overwhelmed, or who wonders whether they’re doing a good enough job.

They’re not the only one.

One of the greatest misconceptions we have is that everyone else has life figured out. We compare our behind-the-scenes struggles with everyone else’s carefully edited highlights. We assume that if we’re finding something difficult, there must be something wrong with us. The reality is much kinder than that.

Being human means experiencing self-doubt, sadness, anxiety, disappointment and uncertainty.

It means making mistakes, facing setbacks and sometimes feeling lost. None of those experiences mean you’re failing. They simply mean you’re human.

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Many of these columns have been inspired by conversations with clients, questions from students, and discussions with readers who have shared their own experiences. Those conversations have continually reinforced that people don’t expect perfection. They want reassurance, practical ideas and the knowledge that someone else understands what they’re going through.

So, thank you for inviting me into your home, office or quiet space each week over the past two years.

Thank you for reading, for sharing these columns with others, and for reminding me why making psychology accessible really matters.

If there’s one message I hope you take from both this column and my new book, it’s the same message I’ve tried to share every week: Whatever you’re facing, you’re probably far less alone than you think. It’s not just you.

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Professor Ian Hickie says technology and community key to tackling youth mental health crisis

by BERNIE RYAN The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare’s (AIHW) Australia’s Health 2026 report released last week paints an alarming picture of the escalating mental health crisis being faced by young Aussies.

Mental disorders among young people aged 16-24 have increased dramatically, jumping from 26% in 2007 to a staggering 39% in 2020-2022.

Suicide and self-inflicted injuries are now the leading cause of disease burden for young men (aged 15-44), while anxiety and depressive disorders are the leading causes for females in the same bracket.

Locally, according to the ACT’s Capital Health Network (ACT PHN) 2024 – 2027 Health Needs Assessment Report, the demand for mental health services for Canberra’s young people is equally alarming with 35.1% of those aged 18-24 reporting a mental condition.

The new data speaks directly to the work of the Youth Mental Health and Technology team at the

University of Sydney’s Brain and Mind Centre.

Professor Ian Hickie, Co-Director of Health and Policy at the Brain and Mind Centre, says the findings reflect a much broader issue.

“Today’s data shows that we’re seeing a structural crisis in youth mental health, with young people carrying a disproportionate and growing share of the burden,” he says. “And a system that was built decades ago wasn’t designed for numbers like this.”

Professor Hickie says that the Albanese Government’s commitment to expanding Headspace clinics to over 200 is welcome.

However, given the way young people communicate and use technology, technology driven interventions, like digital and AI-based mental health tools, can be part of the solution.

“If it’s designed with them, if it’s effective, then it has the potential to be there when people really need it to commence the journey into more complex care,” Professor Hickie says.

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Is Professor Hickie suggesting that AI can replace the skills and intervention of human clinicians? No. “These things are excellent in tone, engagement and listening which is very therapeutic …but the extent to which they change behaviour as a consequence and deliver real outcomes is not the same,” he says.

The erosion of social cohesion as a protective factor, is at the top of his list.

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2. Use the technology with appropriate development and safeguards.

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As the flagship development within the NSW Government’s Snowy Mountains Special Activation Precinct, Vuez is built around low-impact development and environmental stewardship. Accommodation ranges from off-grid Eco Villas to Executive Suites, complemented by a cafe, restaurant, function and event centre, and an adventure hub.

Walking trails, conservation zones and landscaped open spaces invite exploration.

Vuez Eco Resort & Retreat —built for a sustainable future

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4/16 Bougainville Street Manuka (02) 6153 3173

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BATHROOMS & KITCHENS

INDEX 51

Arborist

51

Bathrooms & Kitchens

51

Bathroom Renovations

51

Carpet Laying

51

Cleaning Service

52

Concreting & Related

52

Construction

52

Decks

52

Electrical

52

Excavation

52

Fencing

52

Garden Maintenance

52

Gardening

52

Gutter Cleaning

53

Handyperson

53

Home Renovations

53

Plastering & Painting

53

Plumbing & Gasfitting

53

Roofing

54

Rubbish Removals

54

Tiling

54

Upholstery

54

AIR CONDITIONING/HEATING

BATHROOM RENOVATIONS POOL RENOVATIONS AND GENERAL TILING

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CARPET LAYING

GT

Carpet Service

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DECKS

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0431 251 882

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Call Chris 0412 938 682 admin@clarityconstructions.com.au ACT 201939 | NSW 360769c

DECKS

0490 793 900

GARDENING LIC ACT 202069

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Call CW on 6175 8800 canberradaily.com.au

Garden & Tree Services

EXCAVATION

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CONCRETING & RELATED

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Trades & Services Guide GUTTER CLEANING

PLASTERING & PAINTING

Gutter Clean

MONET PAINTING

Pergola repairs

0421 193 553

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PLASTERING SERVICES • • • • •

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Quality

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ABN 26 425 870 558

HANDYPERSON

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17/8 Gladstone St, Fyshwick | (02) 6280 9901

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Trades & Services Guide ROOFING

PLUMBING & GASFITTING

$80 OFF *CONDITIONS APPLY

Hot Water/Solar Blocked Drains

• Local Professional Service

Gas Fitting

• Seniors Discount

Burst Pipes

• No Call Out Fee

Bathroom Renovations

• All Work Guaranteed

Roofing/Guttering

• Support Local Business

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TILING

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WHEN YOU QUOTE THIS AD ANY SERVICES

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Family based business servicing Canberra & surrounds for over 25 years

Ph: 0473 536 741

FIVE STAR RATING

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RUBBISH REMOVALS

Plumbing Lic 2013728 ABN: 53193588524

Email: admin@capitalpd.com.au

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ROOFING

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