| Good morning, Canberra. We're in for a possible morning shower on the way to a top of 19 degrees. Here's what's making news in the capital. |
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| Vincent Van Gogh's Sunflowers will soon be on display at the new blockbuster at the National Gallery of Australia. |
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| Subscriber: A "maths whiz" is facing up to 20 years in a US prison after ripping off cryptocurrency investors for almost A$114 million. |
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| Wrangling dogs and sheep is hard enough without a global pandemic. National Sheep Dog Trial organisers hope for an easier time this year. |
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| Subscriber: The Australian Tax Office will start peeling back its JobKeeper workforce ahead of its discontinuation in March. |
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| Subscriber: The management of Canberra's national collections is "largely effective" but there are concerns for the future. |
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| Twenty units were opened as part of a new public housing complex in Dickson as the ACT government hit back at claims of a shortage. |
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| Subscriber: CFMMEU officials threatened to run out of town any businesses that failed to collude on a minimum price, a court has heard. |
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| The US Supreme Court has paved the way for a New York City prosecutor to obtain former president Donald Trump's tax returns. |
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| Subscriber: It's one of Canberra's great unanswered questions as the Raiders seek to make it third time lucky in 2021. |
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| Prince Philip was admitted to hospital as a precautionary measure after feeling ill with an ailment that was not related to COVID-19. |
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| Opinion: Empathy allows a person to walk a mile in the shoes of another. This government lacks the ability, writes Zoë Wundenberg. |
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| Subscriber: She might be the first, but Olivia Thornton is confident she won't be the last female Cricket ACT chief executive. |
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| Food & Wine: We love Canberra this time of year. Karen Hardy has a few ideas for places to sit and stay a while, while it lasts. |
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| | Times Past A Belconnen construction worker lost a day's pay while driving around in the sweltering heat with his car windows wound up. The Canberra Times reported on this day in 1968 that Mr Radic, of Queanbeyan, noticed a black snake under his sedan. Motivated by a whack with a stick, the snake lodged itself above the petrol tank. Mr Radic called for assistance from a firm of pest exterminators who sprayed the underside of his car and then assured him that the four feet six inches red-bellied black snake was dead. READ MORE
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