| Good morning Canberra. We're in for a slightly cooler day with a top of 29 degrees and a slight chance of late rain. Here's what's making headlines. |
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| Young people attending the music festival threw their support behind pill-testing, calling for it to be introduced and ruing its absence on Saturday. |
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| Subscriber only: Alistair Coe could be replaced before the ACT election, according to sources close to the party room. |
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| Mary was so desperate to get help she went to a tribunal to ask for guardianship so she could force her son into rehabilitation. |
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| Advocates for asylum seekers are apprehensive, as the fate of the controversial Medevac legislation looks set to be determined this week. |
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| A senior ACT government official has admitted the most recent Mr Fluffy discovery means there is probably more of the asbestos out there. |
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| Canberra's Extinction Rebellion members are far removed from the long-haired vagabond image of climate change street protesters. |
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| Subscriber only: Former football player-turned-entrepreneur Clyde Rathbone is on a mission to make the world a better place. |
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| A new book by Fiona Scott-Norman, This Chicken Life, explores why so many people are going crazy for chooks. |
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| Subscriber only: Laura Hughes has her final three school exams ever this week but may face an even tougher test in the W-League today. |
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| Subscriber only: A taste of Wallabies action has ignited Rob Valetini's desire to get back to international rugby. |
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| When Steve Bywater walked into Canberra's only slot car shop, he managed two steps inside the door before stopping in his tracks. |
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| | Times Past The ACT administration had been given a "rap over the knuckles" on this day in 1988, after it allowed a road to be built at Isaacs before a variation to the city plan was approved. Then-member for Fraser, John Langmore, told the House of Representatives the move made a "mockery of the parliamentary review procedure". "He accused the administration of misleading the [joint-sub committee which considered variations to the city plan] by telling it the road was to be constructed when in fact it had already been built," a story on the front page of The Canberra Times said. "When the committee inspected the site, it was 'quite shocked' to find the road there." READ MORE
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