You asked, we carried out the next commuter test

When we recently experimented on the best and worst car commute times in Canberra, plenty of readers wanted us to put bikes and public transport to the test. So Lucy Arundell and friends have done just that, pitting car versus bike versus bus on a key transport route. Find out how it went.

A woman unsuccessfully sued the government for more than $4.5 million after her ex-partner was granted a visa, alleging this enabled him to harm her and her child. Hannah Neale reports the woman argued for her ex-partner's visa to be cancelled, for the Commonwealth to provide her child with a written apology, and for the assets of the man and his immigration sponsors to be frozen.

Australia is a "nation on hold" and improving those annoying wait times for government services could be a vote shifter, Connor Pearce reports.

And despite their backdown over working from home, opinion writer Georgie Dent writes the Coalition has a lot more to do to avoid the wrath of the mum's army.

After a coolish night with temperatures dipping to 2 degrees, today is expected to be sunny with a predicted top of 23.

John-Paul Moloney, managing editor