| Good morning, Canberra. It's a fine and sunny Tuesday coming up, with an expected top of around 27 degrees. Here's the headlines. |
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| After a distinguished sporting and professional career, Katrina Fanning has been chosen as the ACT Australian of the Year. |
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| Subscriber only: There are nearly 2400 people on the government's public housing waiting list, a near 30 per cent rise from 18 months ago. |
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| Health Minister Greg Hunt has attacked the ACT after the UN said its legalisation of cannabis may be incompatible with international law. |
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| More than half of Canberra women experience sexism and don't feel safe in the city at night, a new report has found. |
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| Adriana Buccianti will not give up the fight she began after the police knocked at her Melbourne door. |
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| A cathartic corflute stomping party was organised after the 2016 ACT election, such was their proliferation in and around the city. |
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| The scheme will allow first home buyers to gain a loan with as little as a 5 per cent deposit from January 1 next year. |
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| Subscriber only: The Canberra Raiders and ACT Brumbies look set to become part of history in a cross-code double-header at Eden Park. |
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| It's been two years between drinks and Canberra Capitals co-captain Marianna Tolo admits she thought the day might never come. |
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| You would have forgiven Belconnen veteran Jessie Rasschaert for thinking the chance of earning a W-League berth had passed her by. |
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| Canberrans will have to wait until the AFL season to get their Australian football fix in 2020. |
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| | Times Past A 76-year-old Queanbeyan man and a miniature train were the featured photo on the front page on this day in 1970. By this stage, Albert Yelland had been patiently applying to build and operate a miniature railway in Canberra for more than four years, struggling to clear bureaucratic hurdles in federal parliament. Alas, it would be another five years, in 1975, when their dream would finally be realised at a site in Weston Park. Sadly, Mr Yelland didn't live to see the first children enjoying his labour of love, dying four months short of opening day. The train became a much-loved part of Canberra childhoods. READ MORE
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