| Good morning, Canberra. We're expecting a bit of rain today and a top temperature of just 10. Here’s what’s making news in the capital. |
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| When the government started telling Australians to come home at the start of the pandemic, Canberra charity worker Gina De Ruytor made plans to leave the Philippines. That’s when her nightmare months-long ordeal started. |
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| Subscriber only: Police are targeting a group of offenders who have raided 30 small businesses in the ACT over the past two weeks. |
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| Subscriber only: Canberra travellers will soon have direct access to two new holiday destinations, via Alliance Airlines. |
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| Former Australian cricketer Dean Jones has died of a heart attack in India, aged 59. |
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| Subscriber only: JWLand has started its pre-development application community consultation for the Braddon site. |
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| Subscriber only: Lawyers have tried to cast doubt on whether a Canberra father was the gunman in a Theodore shooting attack. |
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| Subscriber only: An ex-bikie boss has escaped jail time for weapons offences following a naked shootout in which he lost part of a finger. |
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| ACT Labor has promised to trial free breakfast and lunch, while recruiting a new team of youth and social workers if it wins the election. |
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| Explainer: While the start of the bushfire season has not come with the same ferocity as 2019, authorities are warning against complacency. |
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| Subscriber only: Ricky Stuart says he let down his own standards when he threw a water bottle out of the coaching box window. |
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| Opinion: The desire to work from home will be curtailed if productivity drops - and if management provides poor support, writes Jenna Price. |
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| Subscriber only: The race to the John I Dent Cup is about to be blown wide open as a raft of Super Rugby AU champions return to club rugby. |
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| | Times Past A photo of John Nicholls, 17, showing him conducting the Melrose High School orchestra, appeared on the front page of The Canberra Times on this day in 1975. Lunch time shoppers at Woden Plaza formed the audience for the premiere of an orchestral composition conducted by its composer when the Melrose High School Orchestra, under the baton of sixth former (year 12) John Nicholls, from Torrens, played Variations on a Theme by Rossini. The orchestra played in the Palm Court of the Plaza as part of the plaza's second birthday celebrations and as a contribution to Child Care Week in Canberra.
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