| Good morning, Canberra. After a foggy start we're in for a top temperature of 16 degrees today. Here's what's making headlines in the capital. |
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| One in five Canberra families accessing the childcare subsidy ended up with a debt last financial year, a higher proportion than any other jurisdiction across the country. |
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| Coronavirus testing fell across the country last week just as restrictions were eased. But a 30-year-old miner died in Queensland. |
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| Explainer: Schools around the country are welcoming students back to campus for face-to-face learning with a new virus plan in place. |
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| Pub and club operators are wondering if they can divide up big rooms to get more diners in within the rules. |
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| There's some bad news for your long weekend plans on the South Coast: the holiday travel "bubble" with NSW won't kick in until Monday. |
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| Subscriber only: A man allegedly beaten wrote that he would kill a "bad criminal figure", before he accused her of holding him hostage. |
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| ACT deputy chief health officer Vanessa Johnston urged Canberrans to still work from home where possible. |
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| Weston Creek Indoor Sports centre has more than 1100 square metres of indoor space. But no, competitions won't be resuming, yet. |
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| Scott Morrison gave his fair trade hot chocolate the thumbs up when he visited Robyn Rowe Chocolate, near Murrumbateman, this week. |
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| Subscriber only: Josh Papalii couldn't care less the NRL draw is unfair and the Canberra Raiders have to travel all over the country. |
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| Canberra Times photographer Dion Georgopoulos and former education reporter Sherryn Groch announced as finalists in the prestigious awards. |
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| | Times Past On this day in 1949 it was reported that United States President Harry Truman promised the Commonwealth Government "every assistance as far as technical advisers were concerned" in the plans for the Snowy Mountains scheme. "The scheme, which envisages the diversion of the waters of the Snowy River into the Murray and the Murrumbidgee rivers, will eventually provide more than half a million additional acre feet of water annually for irrigation purposes and generation of 1,720,000 kilowatts of hydro-electric power," the story on the front page of The Canberra Times read. READ MORE
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