Good morning, Canberra. We're in for a partly cloudy day with a top of 15 degrees. Here's what's making news today in the capital. |
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Subscriber only: ACT and NSW fire agencies have insisted they co-operated closely throughout a fire fight on the Monaro Plain in February. But volunteers on the ground tell a very different story. |
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Subscriber only: The changes to the ACT's public transport network come into effect in a month and will slash travel times for some. |
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Subscriber only: The ACT government is set to release a number of new land blocks before the end of the financial year. |
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Voters in Eden-Monaro face being approached by campaigners as NSW Health is yet to release official guidelines. |
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After months of uncertainty and cancelled classes due to coronavirus, some of CIT's "priority" students are slowly returning to campus. |
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The ACT has recorded its largest decline in the number of overseas travellers to the capital, due to the impact of coronavirus restrictions. |
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Subscriber only: An ex-teacher has pleaded guilty to the sexual assault of a teenage girl, who was her student at the time of the offence. |
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Opinion: Cutting out cancers like the Somyureks and Obeids is always the right thing to do. But it's not the end of it, writes Emma Husar. |
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Subscriber only: Manly wrecking ball Addin Fonua-Blake will be spared from the wrath of Canberra Raiders fans come Sunday. Sort of. |
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Food and Wine: To mark its sixth birthday, Canberra brewery BentSpoke has released a new stout beer, Descent 20. |
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Subscriber only: So, how about being on a video game? That's when "you know you've made it", ACT fighter Josh Tonna grins. |
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| Times Past On this day in 1966, the big story on the front page of The Canberra Times was $23,000 in traveller's cheques and $800 in cash vanishing from the English, Scottish and Australian bank in Hobart Place. Accounting for inflation, this was equivalent to $307,000. The discrepancy was noticed when a man attempted to cash 30 of the cheques at a Brisbane bank. READ MORE |
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