Underground Spirits has halted their production of spirits and will co-ordinate a group of local distilleries producing sanitiser for front-line medical staff.
The rich Sydney autumn carnival is on a knife's edge and Queensland's winter extravaganza has already been scuppered due to COVID-19.
Times Past
Canberra's women were being urged to put their hands up for service in "any national emergency" on this day in 1939. A story on the front page of The Canberra Times said the Women's Voluntary Services Association would hold a meeting in April that year at which "registration cards" would be available. "Membership ... shall be open to any woman not less than 17 years of age, who is a resident of the ACT," the story said. READ MORE
