| Good morning, Canberra. Rug up for a cold Friday with an expected top temperature of just 13 degrees. Here’s what’s making news in the capital. |
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| Subscriber: A company owned by a Canberra developer is in liquidation after it failed to pay a more than $2 million of debt to its builder. |
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| The ACT will look to speed up its coronavirus vaccine rollout by making people aged 40 and over eligible for injections. |
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| Subscriber: A man allegedly filmed in a sex act with a prepubescent girl via an internet chatroom has been hit with a string of new charges. |
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| Subscriber: Liberal senator Hollie Hughes says mooted changes to NDIS assessment processes are "dehumanising" and "offensive". |
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| Christian Porter has suffered a significant blow to his defamation case after a court ruled his chosen lawyer could no longer work for him. |
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| Dawn is breaking on Victoria's fourth COVID-19 lockdown and authorities are urging people to get vaccinated to ensure this is their last. |
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| A new ANU survey has found Australians are widely supportive of paying a new levy to help improve failures in the aged care system. |
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| Scientists are starting to do the cosmic equivalent of trying to find the squeak of a mouse in the midst of a stampeding herd of elephants. |
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| Explainer: Here we go again. Victoria is in lockdown as the threat of COVID-19 has returned. How did we get back here? |
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| Subscriber: The ACT government has ruled out making a play for the State of Origin series opener amid doubts about the MCG. |
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| Subscriber | Opinion: It can't say if the backgrounding happened or not. Everyone interviewed knows everyone else, writes Jenna Price. |
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| Subscriber: Representing PNG, playing the world No.3, refusing a post-chess drug test - Shaun Press's chess story is not a typical one. |
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| | Times Past A man who was ordered to appear for sentence in the ACT Supreme Court in 1972 finally appeared in court after being missing for almost two years, The Canberra Times reported on this day in 1974. Also making Canberra news, the Department of the Capital Territory employed the use of Kombi vans in an attempt to ease the effects of a shortage of buses resulting from an industrial action. READ MORE
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