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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has used a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing to raise concerns about the Chinese navy's military drills off Australia's coast. A house in Throsby has sold for $2.3 million , setting a suburb record by almost half a million according to recent property history, Lucinda Garbutt-Young reports. There are fresh calls for Canberra to establish a safe injecting space as part of the city's commitment to harm reduction, Lanie Tindale reports.
Australian National University staff and students are calling for more work to be done to secure government funding rather than cutting jobs or merging schools, Nieve Walton reports.
And in sport, life in the "Canberra bubble" is pretty good right now for the Raiders, who are at the top of the ladder for the first time in 20 years. They are preparing to meet the Parramatta Eels at Canberra Stadium on Saturday, Melanie Dinjaski and Chris Dutton report. Today sees a cold start of minus 4 degrees, followed by a sunny day and a top of 13 degrees. Scott Hannaford, The Canberra Times deputy editor
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