Infrastructure: A new high-speed rail link to Sydney could be completed by 2045 if work began now. An international expert says "someone needs to get in by the scruff of the neck".
Health: The Centenary Hospital for Women and Children has lost its accreditation for training in maternal and fetal medicine due to specialist shortfalls.
Community: Five years after work started, the newly restored Araluen Federal Hall was officially opened; a place not just for emergency gatherings but weddings, book club meetings, yoga, whatever the little village needs.
Property and development: More details surrounding the Canberra-based company's administration have been released ahead of the first meeting of creditors.
What to read: What's behind the rise in need for therapists, and what do they think about it? And Margaret Atwood publishes a volume of short stories that leaves her greatness in no doubt whatsoever - check out this week's best of books.
Environment: The ACT is tasked with recovering its entire 4.9 gigalitre allocation ahead of June 2024, after the Commonwealth ruled its previous contribution wouldn't count.
