| Good morning, Canberra. It looks like we could be in for another wet day today on the way to a top of 27 degrees. Here are today's top headlines. |
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| Dr Kiara Bruggeman wants to be like a virus. Not one that makes people sick, but one that spreads knowledge and enthusiasm for science everywhere. |
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| Police are in discussions with emergency services and the army to help with personnel for COVID checkpoints. |
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| The border checkpoints have been in place for several days but there are still plenty of questions. Here are some answers. |
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| Rains ending the fires. A baby girl on the way after five boys for Sudanese refugees. ACT medicos welcoming twins. It wasn't all bad news in 2020. |
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| Subscriber | Opinion: When NSW and Victoria consider shutting their borders, do they contemplate what it might mean for the ACT? |
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| Subscriber: Tenants' Union ACT is coming to terms with the prospect it might not survive much longer as an independent organisation. |
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| About 28,000 Canberrans already on the brink are being pushed into further financial destitution, the ACT Council of Society Services warns. |
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| Subscriber: ACT Chief Minister Andrew Barr has offered to intervene after Raiders star George Williams was forced to quarantine in Victoria. |
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| Opinion: There's no way to objectively measure a president's greatness (or otherwise), but it's fun to try, writes Malcolm Mackerras. |
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| Subscriber: GWS Giants' Tarni Evans and Emily Pease have found a silver lining to the AFLW club's mad dash to Albury. |
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| Review: Galleries were innovative in exhibiting works to the public throughout the trying times of 2020, writes Brian Rope. |
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| | Times Past Move over electric scooters. A new craze was sweeping Canberra in 1973 during a sweltering heatwave.
It was called "bike jumping" and it was one of the coolest things to do, The Canberra Times reported on this day 48 years ago. School kids were riding their bikes into Lake Burley Griffin as a way to cool down and have fun in the sun. READ MORE
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