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The Conservation Council is calling for a moratorium on new data centre developments in the ACT until tougher rules are in place, amid "increasing concerns" about the impact on Canberra's water supply and electricity grid.

Enos Mafokate began his career as a stable hand and went on to become a world-class athlete during the apartheid era. In September 2026, aged 80, Enos died in Johannesburg – but his legacy endures through his horse-riding school and the generations of pupils he inspired In a historically wealthy sport dominated by the white elite and plagued by its colonial reign, a Black athlete draped in a red coat represented his nation. This is the remarkable story of Enos Mafokate and the legacy he worked s

Ensemble Resonanz/Minasi (Harmonia Mundi) Riccardo Minasi radically reassesses the Eroica, bringing its acerbic innovation to the fore in a startling and compelling new recording that will surely prompt heated debate In 1816, a young Franz Schubert took a swipe at Beethoven, accusing him of promoting a musical eccentricity that muddled “the agreeable with the repulsive, heroism with howlings and the holiest with harlequinades” in order to “goad people to madness”. In this colours-to-the-mast rec

At 89, the star of the Graduate and Ran Man demonstrates both brilliance and a startling lack of self-awareness The choice of title for an actor’s autobiography can be revealing. Sylvester Stallone went with The Steps, conflating life’s challenging progress with the grand staircase of the Philadelphia Museum of Art that Rocky euphorically ran up. Michael Douglas cheerfully and unreflectively called his One Helluva Ride. Dustin Hoffman’s is one of those that harks back to the poignantly vulnerabl