| Good morning, Canberra. We're in for a partly cloudy Sunday with a top of 16 degrees. Here's what's making news in the capital this morning. |
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| In an unassuming office building in Woden, a group of dedicated "disease detectives" are on the COVID-19 case. There's no PPE and much of their work is done over the phone, but it's lifesaving stuff. |
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| The ACT government is under pressure to urgently house a growing number of rough sleepers on Canberra's streets in empty motels. |
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| The ACT has gone five straight days without recording a new coronavirus case, with the number of confirmed patients remaining at 103. |
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| Up until recently, University of Canberra student Jacinta Quee relied on her after school-care work to put petrol in her car and pay her bills. |
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| Walter Burley Griffin's unique city layout for Canberra forged over 100 years ago has helped the city minimise coronavirus concerns. |
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| Subscriber only: Real estate agents across Canberra are reporting an increase in rentals hitting the market amid COVID-19 uncertainty. |
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| People who take hydroxychloroquine for lupus and rheumatoid arthritis say they have struggled to fill their regular prescriptions. |
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| Aussie teacher Michael Doherty has revealed what it's like to live in a country with one of the highest coronavirus death tolls. |
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| The rugby league community is in mourning following the death of former Canberra Raiders squad member Mitch Cronin on Friday. |
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| Canberra woman Rachael Thorpe doesn't want to be pitied but she is feeling enormously frustrated as she chases life-saving cancer surgery. |
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| It's not quite Boston, but Lake Burley Griffin will do just fine for this Paralympic Games gold medal contender. |
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| | Times Past On this day in 1960 the Prime Minister Robert Menzies' refusal to condemn South Africa's apartheid policy came under fire. "A refusal by the Prime Minister, Mr Menzies, to condemn in specific terms the policy of apartheid had brought shame upon the name of Australia," the Leader of the Federal Opposition, Arthur Calwell, said on the front page of The Canberra Times. Mr Calwell said Mr Menzies had left for England expressing the hope that the Commonwealth of Nations would have an indirect voice in the forthcoming summit conference. READ MORE
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