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HerCanberra is a website for women of the Canberra region. Featuring the voices of local writers, we talk about everything from fashion to food; books to bars; children and career. If it’s part of ‘her’ life you’ll find it on HerCanberra.

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Banana, Honey, Oat and Coconut Bread
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This Week in The Can

I’m not a princess, this ain’t a fairy tale…
No sex and the city
The return of The Skywhale
What We Wore: White Shirt Edition
Books – May new releases
Growing future female leaders…
Reduce Your Tummy with Fat?
Help fashion new lives, No Sweat…
Star Trek Into Darkness
AW13 Trend Update – Print
Check yourself
Word Play: pushing the boundaries through ‘live cinema’
Dance, baby, dance!
Her Family

Dance, baby, dance!

Canberra’s future of fashion?
Split: a Croatian Hotel Nightmare
Blogging: Why It’s Good For Your Business
Is it a turtle? Is it a bird-woman? No it’s The Skywhale
Short + Sweet on the lookout for local talent!
School Daze
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School Daze

CBR Collective: Canberra Fashion Designers’ Boutique Pops Up in the Capital
Dressing for Two: Maternity Wardrobe Essentials
Golden Words: helping your child learn to read
Getting to know you: the HerCanberra Reader Survey
Pink Ink – An Evolution
Wedding Day Beauty – which bride do you want to be?
The Abbey: live music and more…
Just risen – Autolyse
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What I Wore

What We Wore: White Shirt Edition

Angelina Jolie’s recent announcement that she had undergone a preventive double mastectomy after finding that she carries [...]

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Her Life

Dance, baby, dance!
May 14, 2013

Dance, baby, dance!

From the time I was little I wanted to be a dancer. Unfortunately, living in a town [...]

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Her Beauty

Customise your own Lipstick!

What if I told you you could have any lipstick colour you wanted? Anything your heart desired [...]

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Fashion

AW13 Trend Update – Print

As I explained in AW13 Trend Update – Colour, every season we are bombarded with messages as [...]

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Her Career

Is it time for an adult gap year?

How does six or twelve months off work sound? Maybe you could travel.  Or stay home and [...]

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Her Chat

Women & Power
May 21, 2013

Women & Power

Last week I attended a seminar at the National Library of Australia.  Speaking on GriffithREVIEW 40: Women [...]

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Restaurant Reviews

Review: The Copa
May 11, 2013

Review: The Copa

When I first heard about The Copa Brazilian Churrasco, my first thought after “yay, new restaurant!” was [...]

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This Week in The Can

This Week in The Can
May 20, 2013

This Week in The Can

This week, there’s a decidedly arty bent to the activities on offer around town. From the beginning, an appreciation [...]

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books

Books – May new releases

For an avid reader, one of the best gifts you can receive is a book voucher.  How [...]

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motherhood

School Daze
May 10, 2013

School Daze

Tomorrow I am enrolling my daughter in Preschool, to start next year.   As my eldest, this is [...]

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Her Business

Blogging: Why It’s Good For Your Business

I get asked a lot about how a business can get their website “found” on Google. What [...]

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Fashfest

FASHFEST: Retail ripple rewards

I have bought a new dress. A dress from a local designer whose most recent collection was [...]

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Her Home

Thinking of Decorating? Seven things you need to know.

For some, interior decorating and design is a complete joy.  The satisfaction that comes with breathing style [...]

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AWARENESS

Help fashion new lives, No Sweat…

Many of us feel helpless when reading about the plight of refugees and asylum seekers. We feel [...]

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Her Recipes

Banana, Honey, Oat and Coconut Bread

I love whipping up some baked goods on a Sunday afternoon – it means that I can [...]

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NUTRITION

Reduce Your Tummy with Fat?

Fat has been quite happy of late. Thanks to overly processed and refined carbohydrates stealing away all [...]

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Her Single Life

No sex and the city
May 19, 2013

No sex and the city

There are some people who, if they’d just had the disastrous date I’ve had on their last [...]

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music

The Abbey: live music and more…

Soju Girl, Ellacure Restaurant, Versatile restaurant – easily some of the best restaurants in Canberra, delivering tasty [...]

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Her Look

How to build an outfit for under $70 at Canberra Fash’n’Treasure

When was the last time you bought a whole outfit complete with shoes and accessories, from the [...]

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Her Politics

Anti-discrimination reforms – victim of discrimination?

The proposed anti-discrimination reforms have ground to a standstill, with it becoming quite apparent to everyone that the [...]

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movies

Star Trek Into Darkness

The Enterprise crew gets caught up in an act of terrorism and must pursue the mastermind behind [...]

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hotspots

Taking the Local to the next level…The Loft at Duxton

Situated above a suburban pub in O’Connor, Canberra’s newest cocktail, wine and tapas bar, The Loft at Duxton, [...]

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Her Fitness

Understanding your aches and pains

Do you understand why you get tired? Why you ache some days, and not the next? Have you experienced [...]

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travel

I Love NYC
April 29, 2013

I Love NYC

My friend Kersten came over last night for a gossip, fresh from a trip to New York [...]

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1927 – Capital Style
May 21, 2013

1927 – Capital Style

1927 – When Australia was stamped as a Nationality (Norman Anderson, Consul General to Australia, 1926)  Not [...]

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