Good morning, Canberra. It looks like we're in for another rainy day with a top of 16 degrees. Here's what's making news in the capital.

Egg-streme demand for backyard chickens

First the panic-buyers went for the toilet paper, then the hand sanitiser and the pasta. Now they've come for the chickens.

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Stuart backs plan to avoid an NRL asterisk

Canberra Raiders coach Ricky Stuart backs the 15-round model as the only way to remove any asterisk from the 2020 NRL premier's name.

A free and innocent Pell, but not a martyr

Opinion: Many people who had opinions about Pell's innocence or not will retain them despite the High Court ruling, says Jack Waterford.

Channel Nine turns Chewbacca into a weasel

To coin a crucial phrase from the famous Chewbacca defence: Nine's attack on the NRL doesn't make sense, writes David Polkinghorne.

Singing psychos, cats and Klansmen galore

From a killer yuppie and singing cats to Jerry Springer and Shane Warne, it seems no subject is too offbeat in modern musical theatre.

Times Past

'Bus halt cuts schools' numbers'. This was the headline featured on page one of The Canberra Times this day 45 years ago. Three Belconnen High Schools reported substantial increases in absenteeism coinciding with the bus strike. At Ginninderra High School, daily absences increased from 50 to between 120 and 150 during the strike.READ MORE