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"Weird" and "creepy" have been the power words used by Kamala Harris and her team to tear into Donald Trump for his and his would-be vice-president JD Vance's objectively weird and creepy behaviour.
And Andrew Barr has torn a page from that playbook to attack the Canberra Liberals over their efforts to recruit, via a local modelling agency, an "Andrew Barr lookalike". Brittney Levinson reports on the search for Canberra's next top model. New laws have been proposed to give pets special status in legal separations to stop abusive partners weaponising them when a relationship breaks down. Eleanor Campbell reportsabout a quarter of the RSPCA's total emergency intake was animals affected by domestic and family violence. In property, Lucinda Garbutt-Young shows us how a planned Deakin apartment building right near a future light-rail stop will look, and Steve Evans reports on the push to ban betting advertisements - a story that has already generated a stack of comments. With cloudy skies and rain in today's forecast, the overnight temperature stayed around a relatively warm 9 degrees. Today will be a top of 15 with a shower or two. John-Paul Moloney, managing editor | 