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A successful Cooma restaurant that opened in Canberra's CBD says the light rail works have crushed its business, and it would close down the venue if not for the lease. Lucy Arundell spoke to the owner who felt trapped by the construction works he didn't know about when he signed his lease. Fixed levies for Canberra ratepayers will disproportionally affect unit owners in outer suburbs like Conder, data consolidated by The Canberra Times shows. Lucinda Garbutt-Young and Ray Atwhal show what the proposed $250 health levy would have done to rates, as well as the impact of the revised $100 levy. A top legal and integrity expert has called for the public servants involved in a corrupted hiring process to be named publicly, saying the national corruption watchdog has failed to hold them to account. Brittney Levinson reports on criticism that the watchdog is protecting a former senior public servant who abused her position and lied to hire a family member.
And in sport, there's nothing like a few stadium sellouts to go to a sporting organisation's head. Melanie Dinjaski reports that the boss of the Canberra Brave ice hockey team is pitching a Madison Square Garden-inspired design tweak so it can play at the proposed new entertainment precinct in the city. We get our dose of rain today with 1 to 20 millimetres predicted to fall. After a mild overnight low of 8, the top temperature forecast is 13. John-Paul Moloney, managing editor | 