| Good morning, Canberra. The rain will ease but the cold will continue, with a top of just 11 degrees today. Here’s what’s making news in the capital. |
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| Subscriber only: Canberra trainer Nick Olive said the ACT racing industry could be forced to shut down, costing the jobs of the 440 people who work in it. |
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| Subscriber only: ACT Opposition leader Alistair Coe said "minimising risk for the sake of minimising risk" was absurd. |
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| Financial counsellors are alarmed about plans to water down responsible lending laws, saying it is another financial crisis in waiting. |
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| Subscriber only: Canberra's religious schools have attacked Labor over its stance on school funding models and gay conversion laws. |
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| Subscriber only: Alliance Airlines will operate a twice weekly service to the two destinations from the capital, starting from October 23. |
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| It may be almost a month into spring but Canberra is set for a wintry weekend. Parts of the Brindabellas could even get snow. |
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| Subscriber only: The government must distribute economic stimulus funds in a way that will reduce a risk of fraud, writes Jack Waterford. |
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| Subscriber only: A small silver plate from a fatal plane crash near Queanbeyan in 1940 is cherished by a Canberra woman. |
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| Subscriber only: Canberra Croatia's top flight men's and women's teams will both have to beat last year's champions. |
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| For Australia's military veterans, tattoos are an important reminder of the places they've been and things they've seen, writes Claire Hunter. |
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| Subscriber only: Canberra Raiders halfback Sam Williams' life has changed dramatically since his last game in the NRL. |
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| | Times Past On this day in 1977, The Canberra Times reported that the Public Service Board approved first-class travel for pregnant women after a battle with the Administrative and Clerical Officers Association. It came after ACOA (which represented 50,000 public servants) discovered the board was not allowing pregnant women to travel first class to postings abroad, despite a ruling by the then Public Service Arbitrator, Mr Ted Taylor, that women who travelled long distances with children aged under seven, were entitled to first-class travel. READ MORE
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