Good morning, Canberra. We're in for showers, a possible storm and up to 15mm of rain as the mercury heads towards 27. Here’s what’s making news in the capital.
World: A powerful earthquake has struck central Japan, killing at least one person, destroying buildings and prompting residents in some coastal areas to flee to higher ground.
Hobbies: Twelve-year-old Isabella "Izzie" Zaharis reckoned she would keep the very sellable dollar coin she had just minted. Or at least her mother did.
2003 cabinet papers: The Howard government was scrambling to contain the ballooning $58.4 billion cost of public servants' lucrative superannuation schemes, cabinet records from 2003 have revealed.
2003 cabinet papers: Former ASIO boss Dennis Richardson has been called in to investigate why national security documents from the year Australia joined the Iraq War weren't handed over as required, for potential release.
Opinion: Technology and working from home have now made separating work and home even harder. But regaining the balance can be achieved, writes Jane Gifkins.
Cricket: David Warner emerging from relative obscurity, opening the batting for his country before he had even played a first class game, feels a world away, writes Caden Helmers.
