Tuesday newsletter headline

After a sub-zero night, we're expecting a lovely top of 18 degrees in Canberra today. And once the fog clears, we're set for a high noon showdown at the ANU.

That's the likely situation after eviction orders were given to the pro-Palestinian protest camp in the heart of the campus. In what has a ring of taking down Al Capone for tax evasion, the university has used fire evacuation concerns as the trigger to bring the weeks-long protest standoff to a head.

Students rejected an offer to move the camp to another site and so have now been told if they aren't gone by midday today they can expect police to be called in to move them on. But first police will need to get through the barricade of several fold-out tables turned on their side. It's not quite Les Mis.

And in opinion today, don't miss Crispin Hull coming in at full steam for Peter Dutton's nuclear energy plans. "Australians should be embarrassed that one of our major political parties is so scientifically and economically ignorant and stupid," Hull writes.

John-Paul Moloney, managing editor