Property: Charter Hall has purchased the new Australian Tax Office headquarters to be built in Barton, adding yet another Canberra office building to its portfolio.
Finance: A "pretty standard bread-and-butter" budget will include an improvement of $50 billion, but the Treasurer is warning that will create "additional issues" going forward.
Public holiday: NSW will run its double demerit program until midnight on Sunday, targeting speeding, seatbelt, mobile phone and motorcycle helmet offences.
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Food & Wine: What's the best burger in Canberra? How about the best steak? And while we're at it, where's the best cocktail bar? These questions - and more - were answered on Monday night.
COVID: Masks are likely to remain a requirement for passengers on public transport in the ACT until the end of the month when the territory's public health emergency is set to end.
Federal politics: Independent ACT senator David Pocock wants Federal Parliament to move to sit for at least one, possibly more, days in 2022 to debate "some really urgent pieces of legislation".
Vale: Frank Mawer, who celebrated his 110th birthday on August 15, took the title of Australia's oldest man in July last year after the death of Queensland man Dexter Kruger.
Federal politics: The opposition accused the nation's top law officer of "clearly" breaching the Albanese government's strengthened ministerial code of conduct through his investments.
