Good morning, Canberra. After a low of zero degrees overnight we're heading for a beautiful top of nine today. Here's what's making news in the capital.
Sydney's current coronavirus outbreak has dashed school holiday travel plans for many Canberrans, with ACT venues feeling the effects in different ways.
Subscriber: The Australian Bureau of Statistics will for the first time open up to 400 information hubs across the country in a bid to curb census hesitancy amid rising misinformation and scepticism during the pandemic.
Subscriber:The ACT's slow growth in the number of apprentices and trainees in the last year has prompted renewed concern of a long-lasting trades skills shortage.
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Subscriber: A one-man advantage is meant to be a good thing, but David Fifita's sin-binning sparked one of the worst Canberra Raiders losses in recent years last night.
Subscriber: A former Socceroo and his nephew have been sentenced to community-based orders for illegally importing fitness supplements into the country because "they could not be bothered undertaking the administrative requirements" to obtain approval.
Subscriber: While his name will never be made public, the Sunday Canberra Times can now reveal rare insights into the character and past of the man recently handed a suspended jail sentence for helping expose this country's 2004 bugging of impoverished ally East Timor.
Subscriber: He's known as Canberra's miracle surgeon. Ross Farhadieh is a plastic surgeon who is about more than facelifts and nose jobs. And now he's helping teach trainee surgeons across the globe through a new textbook.
Subscriber: The ACT postcode 2603 and the arts and recreation services sector are leading the way when it comes to generosity with their money, recently released tax data shows.
Subscriber: A playground finder app will be overhauled to include the more than 500 playgrounds in the ACT, in an effort to encourage higher rates of physical activity among the territory's young people.
Victoria Devine wants us all to hit our money goals at tax time. As the creator of the popular podcast She's on the Money, and now the book of the same name, Devine wants us to establish the values, habits and confidence that will help us build our long-term wealth.
