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AM edition, Friday, December 27, 2019
Good morning, Canberra. It's still smoky and it's heating up again with a top of 36 degrees forecast for today. Here's what's making headlines.

The changing streetscape of Dickson

Subscriber only: Dickson was once on Canberra's outskirts but a lot has changed and there is still plenty more to come.

Top stories

Govt faces $3m payout to dumped secretaries

Subscriber only: The PM’s decision to dump five APS department secretaries may cost taxpayers more than $3.3 million.

Calvary patient dragged along ground by staff

Scott Sutherland was dragged out of bed and along a hospital floor by several staff members and left in soiled clothes for hours unchecked.

Thousands swarm to Boxing Day sales

In Civic, some stores had lines out the door to get in and snag a bargain, while in some cases, lines stretched even longer for discounted goods.

Fears fire resources to be scarce and expensive

Longer bushfire seasons will bump up the cost of fighting blazes substantially, according to the agency which coordinates the effort.

Yass mayor in business with smuggler

Yass mayor Rowena Abbey and her husband Brendan remain in business with a confessed drug smuggler Rohan Arnold.

Man posed as his twin brother to avoid charges

A man who posed as his brother in an attempt to evade criminal charges was chased down and apprehended by members of the public.

Sport

Smith pulls Australia out of Boxing Day trouble

Steve Smith proved his status as cricket's best problem solver as he pulled and weaved his way through New Zealand's bumpers.

Up in smoke: United thumped by Wanderers

Canberra United manager Heather Garriock could've shut up shop and taken a respectable 2-0 loss against a "world-class" Western Sydney.

Bud-ing apprentice Damon leaves it late to ride

Subscriber only: If at first you don't succeed, move to Australia and live at a race track. That's proved the secret formula for Damon Budler.

A decade of drama ends for the Brumbies

Like sands through the hourglass, so were the ACT Brumbies days of the decade. Here's a look back at the past 10 years.

Times Past

The possible change to the origins of Canberra street names was causing quite a stir on this day in 1973 with Canberra Historical Society objecting a proposal to allow the use of foreign names for Canberra streets and locations. The president of the society, J.S. Cumston, said that the society would write to the Minister for the Capital Territory to "voice its protest". The argument for the use of foreign names stated the fact that Australia was big enough to commemorate and applaud international names as well as celebrating its own heroes and that the move would be a liberalising of the ordinance. READ MORE
 
 
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