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AM edition, Monday, June 15, 2020

Good morning, Canberra. It'll be another frosty start in the capital before heading to a top of 14 degrees. Here's what's making news this Monday.

The choking cost of Canberra's bad bushfire air revealed

Subscriber only: Fourteen-year-old Maya Long found breathing so difficult when bushfire smoke smothered Canberra that she and her family had to leave the city.

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The Canberra postcodes most reliant on JobKeeper

Subscriber only: Data has revealed the suburbs most reliant on JobKeeper, as calls continue for the wage subsidy scheme to be extended.

Urgent funding needed to close learning gaps

Subscriber only: ACT students will be among the cohort to have lost the most because of their longer official school shutdown period.

$72b in infrastructure projects to be fast-tracked

Approvals for mining projects are set to be fast-tracked as part of a push to accelerate billions of dollars worth of infrastructure projects.

Vic Labor MP accused of branch stacking

Daniel Andrews is expected to address explosive allegations of branch-stacking by a minister he once said was a "very good friend".

Clean start for workers after coronavirus hits jobs

A lifeline has arisen for one Bhutanese couple after COVID-19 left them without a job just two months into their stay in the capital.

Constitution Place project tops out construction

Subscriber only: Work on the 12-storey complex development is expected to be completed by November.

Government must step up to save its own citizen

Opinion: Australia's diplomats should demand Vietnam consider one citizen's release an immediate priority, writes Elaine Pearson.

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'Critical': AIS set to turn into athlete hub

Subscriber only: The AIS will become a buzzing high performance hub as sports bounce back en route to the Olympic Games.

'This burger is so much more than a burger...'

The ACT government launched its "Choose Local" campaign to encourage Canberrans to spend up in the territory.

Tipping the scales in Canberra's favour

NRL rule changes could open the door for winger Jordan Rapana to become a forward pack pinch-hitter for the Green Machine.

Diary of an Optimist: Kiss goodbye to this trend

Opinion: One of the benefits of the current plague is that kissing has gone out of fashion, a relieved Steve Evans writes.

Times Past

Petrol was being recovered and pumped into Lake Burley Griffin, The Canberra Times reported on its front page 25 years ago today.The petrol, from a pool of about 25,000 litres, was pumped from beneath the Center Cinema in the city centre into stormwater drains which flowed directly to the lake. READ MORE

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