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| Subscriber only: That's life inside Canberra's jail since last Tuesday's riot according to a prisoner's mother, who called the conditions "appalling". |
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| Gen Z aren't snowflakes; young Canberrans have taken on the pandemic's challenges with resilience, a new report shows. |
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| Subscriber only: Yvette Berry said she wouldn't encourage her children to enter politics, but kept quiet on any leadership ambitions. |
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| Of Australians working from home, 70 per cent had been doing work in non-work hours according to new research. |
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| Subscriber only: The Department of Finance spent nearly half a million dollars on legal advice relating to MPs and their staff in six years. |
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| The Morrison government will face fresh challenge to public interest immunity claims over documents linked to the robodebt scandal. |
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| The John Williamson song is among the 10 new entries to the National Film and Sound Archive's Sounds of Australia register. |
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| Opinion: And that creates an opportunity for Labor to deal with some of its demons, writes John Quiggin. |
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| Subscriber only: Three former Canberra Raiders coaches are in charge of Queensland's bid to end NSW's reign tonight. |
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| Opinion: Is it really enough just to win today's news cycle? Character is the measure of approval, writes Mark Hearn. |
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| Subscriber only: They've already lost a player, now Canberra Cavalry are worried government inaction will see them miss the ABL season. |
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| | Times Past We have a reminder of how the fight against a deadly virus can come with a side order of prejudice, on the front page of The Canberra Times on November 18, 1984. Family Team member of the ACT House of Assembly Mrs Bev Cairns put forward an Anti-AIDS bill where gay men in the ACT who donated blood knowing they were HIV positive could be fined $10,000 and face five years' jail. She said the bill was aimed at the "ruthless homosexuals who wish to be considered part of mainstream society and for that reason donate blood". READ MORE
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