A "highly vocal minority" stuck in the past is holding back the development of Canberra, according to one of the city's leading urban planners. Steve Evans reports on the ongoing debate over high-rise apartments in the territory's inner north.
Speaking of the inner north, Jasper Lindell writes on the volunteers who built a peace garden filled with native species for a youth refuge in the area and the government's plan to sell off the block.
Over on the South Coast, a company has been fined $180,000 after a worker was seriously injured while decontaminating timber treated with cyanide as part of construction of the new Batemans Bay bridge. Hannah Neale has the details.
Predictions call for a sunny day today with some light winds and a top temperature of 21 degrees.
