Good morning, Canberra. We're in for a partly cloudy day with a top of 15 degrees and a small chance of rain. Here's what's making news in the capital.
Subscriber: The hospital surge centre, where thousands of COVID-19 vaccines are provided each week, could be overhauled into an emergency department overnight in the event of an outbreak, but the new head of Canberra Health Services hopes it doesn't come to that.
Subscriber: ACT Chief Minister Andrew Barr will urge businesses to give their staff paid leave to attend COVID-19 vaccine appointments and to support sick leave for employees who have side effects from the jab.
Subscriber | Exclusive: New polling shows a clear majority of Australians across the political spectrum support the push to give the ACT and Northern Territory back the power to make laws on voluntary euthanasia.
Subscriber: As Patty Mills and his brilliant Boomers inspired the nation on Saturday night, his family and mates gathered in Canberra to watch history unfold.
Subscriber: A study showing public servants are staying silent about cronyism and nepotism in their workplaces supports calls for a federal anti-corruption commission, the report's author says.
Lilli Thomas had just pocketed her first pay packet when she decided to donate it to a stranger at a supermarket in Mawson. At a time when some people can't work because of coronavirus restrictions, or downturn in travellers to Canberra, the 17-year-old decided to make a difference.
Subscriber | Opinion: Australia has long used cash incentives to encourage childhood vaccination - and various other behaviours helpful to society. Incentives work. It's time we used them right now, writes Andrew Leigh.
But people arriving in Canberra will have to stay at home if they have been in Cairns or the Yarrabah Aboriginal Shire Council area on or after July 29, after the Queensland government announced new restrictions for those areas.