| Good morning Canberra. What a difference a week makes - last Saturday's searing heat has been replaced by a rainy 20-degree day. Here's the news. |
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| Analysis: The ACT's first threatening blaze since the awfulness of 2003 began simply and unintentionally. |
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| The journalism you trust to keep you connected |
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| Subscriber only: While the Orroral Valley fire continues to burn, the Legislative Assembly is getting set to sit for the first time this year. |
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| The AEC is considering investigating a mystery $165,000 political donation to the Liberal Party from a close associate of the PM. |
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| Panorama: Have you heard the one about the person who jumped off the 10-metre diving board and died? |
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| Molonglo Valley's primary school will open in 2021, with the new high school to open two years later. |
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| Priscilla-Lee Wieland, 34, set fire to the Canberra public housing property she lived in, causing about $260,000 worth of damage. |
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| Govt ministers ordered a department to reconsider a project under the $220m regional jobs scheme, despite receiving advice it was not eligible. |
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| Maybe we'll look back in 10 years and remember this as the night Noah Lolesio announced his arrival to the rugby world. |
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| Emily Rooney, who received a quilt after the Canberra firestorm, is now making blankets for victims of this summer's devastating bushfires. |
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| Subscriber only: Think about the lyrics to Advance Australia Fair and you can find fault in the second line, writes Caden Helmers. |
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| Kids from Canberra and Queanbeyan on a posting to Washington with their parents have raised bushfire relief funds by selling Aussie 'candy'. |
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| | Times Past A snap announcement would set off a turbulent campaign in the election that was dubbed "unloseable" for Liberal leader John Hewson. The Canberra Times reported on its front page 27 years ago today that Prime Minister Paul Keating had called an election for March 13, five weeks away. "Ten years is long enough," Dr Hewson said. "I think most people feel that time is up for Labor." However, he was proven quite wrong five weeks later. READ MORE
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