Subscriber only: ACT and NSW fire agencies have insisted they co-operated closely throughout a fire fight on the Monaro Plain in February. But volunteers on the ground tell a very different story.
Subscriber only: So, how about being on a video game? That's when "you know you've made it", ACT fighter Josh Tonna grins.
Times Past
On this day in 1966, the big story on the front page of The Canberra Times was $23,000 in traveller's cheques and $800 in cash vanishing from the English, Scottish and Australian bank in Hobart Place. Accounting for inflation, this was equivalent to $307,000. The discrepancy was noticed when a man attempted to cash 30 of the cheques at a Brisbane bank. READ MORE
