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AM edition, Friday, June 11, 2021
Good morning, Canberra. We're in for a possible shower or two on the way to a top of 13 degrees. Here's what's making news in the capital.

Floriade goes back to the future - and the park

Floriade this year returns to Commonwealth Park with a theme of "The future of flowers". It is hoped more than 500,000 people will take in the spectacle.

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Commonwealth wins appeal over death of pilot

Subscriber: Captain David Wood died from hypothermia after falling into a crevasse in Antarctica and being trapped for hours.

Minister rules out resettling Biloela family

Karen Andrews has ruled out considering third-country resettlement for a Tamil asylum seeker family being detained.

Australia, Singapore agree on travel plan

Australia and Singapore have agreed to start work on a plan for a travel bubble which would initially allow students to return.

Insane pictures as NSW shivers through the snow

Photos: Many residents across NSW experienced a winter wonderland on Thursday, with snow blanketing everything in sight.

Key Nomad arrested in Operation Ironside raid 

Subscriber: A high-ranking Nomads bikie gang member has been charged over allegations he led drugs runs from Sydney to the ACT.

Everyone wins with safe overseas students' return

Subscriber | Analysis: There's a glimmer of hope for foreign students enrolled at Canberra's universities, writes Sarah Lansdown.
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Raiders lay out welcome Matt for Dragons' Dufty

Subscriber: Matthew Dufty toured the Canberra Raiders' centre of excellence on Thursday, but he won't be joining this year at least.

Why don't journalists like to sue for defamation?

Subscriber | Opinion: A bizarre editorial in the national broadsheet had me wondering why journos feel this way, writes Jenna Price.

Brumbies ready for Highlanders, cold weather

Subscriber: A pained grimace slowly passes over re-signed Brumby Tom Wright's face as he's asked about Canberra's weather.

Government favouring spin over substance

Opinion: The govt's politics-driven policy neglect will constrain our future standard of living for decades to come, writes John Hewson.

Times Past

Fire units had been called to eight separate arson incidents taking place across Canberra in just three-and-a-half hours, reported The Canberra Times on this day in 1983. The fires, which were lit in different suburbs, caused $1 million in damage and dominated more than half of the front page, which included photographs of the devastation and the owner of a supermarket, one of the business targeted in the attacks, being comforted.  READ MORE
 
 
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