Good morning, Canberra. Rain today most likely in the afternoon and evening, and a top temperature of 19 degrees. Here’s what’s making news in the capital.
Weather: For the rest of the week including Sunday, maximum temperatures will be a shade under 20 degrees, and on Friday actually reach 20. The warm up seems to be serving the Floriade flower festival well.
Budget 2022: A "pretty standard bread-and-butter" budget will include an improvement of $50 billion, but the Treasurer is warning that will create "additional issues" going forwards.
Federal politics: The NDIS Minister wants to end the agency's "adversarial approach" to dealing with participants who challenge funding cuts, as he revealed a new backlog plan.
Development: Currently in the ACT, a number of trades do not require a licence to complete work including carpenters, joiners, glaziers, bricklayers, painters, plasterers, tilers and waterproofers.
Court: The 32-year-old north Canberra man was arrested last year as part of a police investigation into the distribution of drugs by bikie gangs in the ACT.
ACT politics: The ACT government will be urged to improve the early warning system for paediatric patients at Canberra Hospital, with the opposition to call for the change in the territory's parliament.
Court: Armed intruders pointed a gun at a man and cut him with a machete during a "quite horrible" home invasion in Canberra's south, a jury has been told.
Soccer: Canberra soccer fans have slammed the city's absence from all women's World Cup activity after the ACT government withdrew from process to be a training base camp for visiting teams.
