Good morning, Canberra. We could be in for a shower or two to start the working week on the way to a top of 19 degrees. Here's what's making news.

It's hammer time: Hammer thrower turned teacher wants to bring joy back to learning

Stuart Rendell has had two lives: one as a hammer thrower and one as a primary school teacher.

The journalism you trust to keep you connected

Featured

'My only hope': McKellar wants accountability

Subscriber: Brumbies coach Dan McKellar will walk into his office this morning facing the most unenviable of tasks.

It shouldn't be this hard to suppress COVID-19

Subscriber | Opinion: Australia has been basking in early successes in the fight against COVID-19 for too long, writes Nicholas Stuart.

Canberra Raiders like a 'broken record': Wighton

Subscriber: A perplexed Jack Wighton feels the Canberra Raiders have lost the knack of winning.

Sons before daughters in world of a swift parrot

Call it sexist if you like but a type of threatened parrot has started favouring male offspring at the expense of female chicks.

Times Past

"Soft words to ease political has-beens into life of 'hell'," headed an article on the front page of The Canberra Times 28 years ago, on this day. A leading sports psychologist was to advise politicians suffering from post-election depression how to be good losers, despite the trauma of being kicked out of federal parliament. READ MORE