| Good morning, Canberra. Enjoy the Easter Monday public holiday. We're in for a cloudy Monday and a top of 25 degrees. Here's what's making news. |
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| Urban agriculture is booming in Canberra since the pandemic, and experts say with a bit of investment the capital could produce 20 per cent of its own food. |
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| Subscriber: More than 400 public housing properties sit empty in the ACT, while almost 200 people were on the "priority list" for a new home. |
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| Subscriber: The Commonwealth paid $2.1 billion to Canberrans, while the ACT government's entire fiscal response was $913 million. |
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| Peter Dutton concedes there will be hiccups with the vaccine rollout, but says Australia is not in a state of "mad panic" like the US and UK. |
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| Subscriber: The ACT government has been ordered to pay a bullied employee $9000 after botching her compensation claim. |
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| A police raid in Kambah has uncovered jewellery and watches believed to be connected to at least two home burglaries. |
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| Details from more than 500 million Facebook users have been found available on a website for hackers. |
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| Subscriber: A bloodied concreter repeatedly threatened to shoot police officers while amped up after the 2020 Origin decider. |
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| Subscriber: Ryan James is adamant the Canberra Raiders "can really go to another level", starting with Friday's Panthers blockbuster. |
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| Caitlin Francis had just moved to Canberra to start a graduate program with the DESE when COVID-19 came on the back of the summer fires. |
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| Opinion: Temporary sleeping spaces like the Sleepbus bring with them significant risk, writes YWCA Canberra CEO Frances Crimmins. |
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| Explainer: It would be nice to think identifying the source of this terrible epidemic would be solely about the science - but it's not. |
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| | Times Past The fifth of the six planned "Sundays in the Park" in 1976 drew what appeared to be, by late afternoon, the largest crowd since the series began, reported The Canberra Times on this day 45 years ago. Organisers of a different event, the carnival at the Canberra High School oval near Jamison Centre, estimated that about 1000 people there also watched or took part in events as diverse as a giant sausage-eating contest, and a "Miss" Lake Ginninderra Drag contest.
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