Good morning, Canberra. We're in for a partly cloudy day and a top of 25 degrees. Here's what's making news in the capital. |
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It can be easy to forget the COVID-19 pandemic as you walk the streets of Manuka. But for Lisa Calabria and her team at Capital Travel, the pandemic and its devastating effects were still a grim reality. |
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Subscriber: Almost one in 10 ACT residents would be impacted when JobKeeper and Jobseeker were wound up at the end of March. |
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Subscriber: Defence and foreign affairs employees being posted overseas will be among the first in line for a COVID-19 vaccine. |
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Subscriber: Thor Kristiansen was on parole at the time of the incident, which began when his angry partner saw another woman in his car. |
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One of Canberra's major roads has officially been renamed, ahead of its long-awaited duplication. |
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Subscriber: Former AFP deputy commissioner Ramzi Jabbour missed out on the top job due to the allegations he's facing. |
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New Closing the Gap targets should not become a bureaucratic sleight of hand letting MPs off the hook in reducing Indigenous disadvantage. |
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Subscriber: Brumbies players and staff will leave the safety of the ACT for the first time in six weeks tomorrow. |
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When Ka'ili hopped in the car after her enormous first day, her words were a dream come true for her parents. |
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Food and Wine: Spilt some beetroot on a white shirt? Red wine? The CWA's latest little book is full of handy home hints. |
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Opinion: These are tough times for our youth in more ways than one. They need help, writes Lauren Solomon. |
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| Times Past The COVID epidemic ruled the year of 2020. But in 1967 there was an epidemic of another kind in Canberra, reported The Canberra Times. Cats and their proverbial nine lives were fighting a losing battle against a feline epidemic that had clawed Canberra and claimed many lives in the past few weeks. A Lyneham veterinary surgeon said about 600 cats had died in a fortnight, but that this was a conservative figure because of many unknown and unreported cases. READ MORE |
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