Good morning, Canberra. There's a small chance of a shower as we head towards a top of 28 degrees this Australia Day. Here’s what’s making news in the capital.
Australia Day Awards: Local Hero David Elliott's chance discovery of a dinosaur fossil during routine sheep mustering in 1999 led to the revival of Australia's palaeontology field.
ACT politics: The right to a healthy environment ought to be adopted into law in the ACT and the Supreme Court should be allowed to hear complaints sooner when the right is said to have been breached, a parliamentary inquiry has recommended.
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Australia Day honours: New Zealand-born Isaac Cotter may boast the name of a famous ACT dam, but it was another local dam that persuaded him to make his home in Australia.
Australia Day honours: "It goes nicely with my Spanish knighthood," Colin Steele said upon being congratulated on his Member of the Order of Australia this week.
Federal politics | Analysis: This is a political fight Labor has willingly walked into as cost-of-living bites. It could be political suicide, writes Karen Barlow.
What's on: How good does this sound? Shakespeare's Henry V performed as a rugby tournament on the hallowed ground of Viking Park in Tuggeranong, with the audience dressed in the colours of France or England watching from the stands.
