Good morning, Canberra. It's going to be a cold one today with a shower or two in store and a top of 7 degrees. Here's what's making news.

Answering the call of the wild in the backcountry of our ski fields

Subscriber only: Beyond the boundaries of the ski resorts is a whole new backcountry to explore. But out there lurks many unexpected hazards.

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Tim the Yowie Man: Secluded swamp stories

Subscriber only: Tim joins naturalist John Blay on an unhurried walk around secret swampland teeming with wild wonders.

Border controls aren't as powerful as we'd like

Subscriber only: Don't accept that controls are just simple reflections of the advice from health specialists, writes Jack Waterford.

Milestone Raider is reliable on and off the field

Subscriber only: Josh Papalii labelled Dunamis Lui the "Samoan Gordon Ramsay" this week, in the lead up to his 150th NRL match.

A story of love revealed in repetition

Subscriber only: Veteran social researcher Hugh Mackay says writing a novel about a marriage was like being let off the leash.

Times Past

On this day in 1989, The Canberra Times reported the federal government would be forced to breach Australian Labor Party policy to force commercial pilots to end action. Commercial pilots ignored a Federal Industrial Relations Commission order to lift their bans and limitations supporting a 29.47 per cent pay rise. The Minister for Industrial Relations, Peter Morris, threatened the imposition of hefty fines and other penalties but confirmed they could only be imposed if the government supported the airlines' use of common law and Section 45 D - and both actions would go against formal federal ALP policy. READ MORE