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| Subscriber: Canberra veterans are calling on ACT Health to tell them if they will be able to attend the dawn service or march on Anzac Day this year. |
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| Subscriber: The ACT's COVID-19 spending is not the main reason the budget is set to go into the red for years to come, new analysis shows. |
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| Subscriber: The six-storey, five-star hotel proposed for the site includes 43 basement car spaces, five cinemas and a restaurant. |
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| Australia will be vulnerable to global shortages unless manufacturing capabilities are increased, leading scientists have warned. |
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| Public transport and construction lobbies have welcomed the federal government's $135 million funding injection for Stage 2A of light rail. |
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| It is unclear when Defence Minister Linda Reynolds will return to work after taking medical leave amid scandal at Parliament House. |
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| Subscriber: The bathrooms at Macquarie Primary School have fallen into a dangerous state of disrepair, parents say. |
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| Opinion: We're not doing away with the word breastfeeding either. Here's why you may have heard differently, writes Fiona Jenkins. |
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| Canberra fitness expert Jenna Louise is starring in a new action TV show which takes the childhood game of tag to "incredible new heights". |
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| With news of the Defence Minister's cancelled lunchtime address came the question: what do you do with 200 thawed lobsters? |
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| Subscriber: Corey Horsburgh has been cleared to play in Saturday's trial against the Sydney Roosters at Seiffert Oval. |
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| | Times Past A motor vehicle accessory that is standard and taken for granted today was made compulsory 54 years ago after a meeting of Commonwealth and state ministers of transport, reported The Canberra Times on this day in 1967. A panel recommended that safety belts be mandatory for all seats in new motor vehicles. Other recommendations included reversing lights, minimum requirements for locks and external rear-vision mirrors. READ MORE
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