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ACT sports join forces for a virus plan

Canberra's biggest sports have supported a return to play, urging athletes to sign up to a tracking app as a health and safety measure.

This Canberra family opens home to the world

Subscriber only: Canberra family joins celebrities such as Shelley Craft in allowing average punters to take a peek inside their home.

A fully sick Brumby avoids coronavirus

Subscriber only: ACT Brumbies young gun Bayley Kuenzle knows better than most how to handle a pandemic.

Canberrans' lives under the doona revealed

Canberrans are proud of where they live and see a bright future on the other side of the pandemic, an exclusive ACM survey has found.

Times Past

While most Canberrans were celebrating the 10th anniversary of Black Mountain Tower on this day in 1990, the unique design had at least one critic. Former secretary of the committee to save Black Mountain, Bruce Kent, would not pay tribute to the Canberra icon - saying it was a pity it could not be torn down. "It was basically constructed as a status symbol," he said. "I think that aesthetically the closer you are the worse it gets." READ MORE