Finance: Surging fuel prices, growing rents and bigger power bills helped drive inflation higher in the September quarter but the growth rate is continuing to ease.
Inquest: The inquest into the death of five-year-old Rozalia Spadafora, who died in Canberra Hospital, appears to be set to reveal a series of "missed opportunities" to potentially save her life.
Court: "It's not funny now is it." That was the opening line of magistrate Doug Dick's sentencing remarks when convicting three men for assaulting a kangaroo in July.