| Good morning Canberra. There's a few clouds hanging around and we're a chance for some more much-needed rain. Here's what's making news today. |
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| Julia and Barry Rollings have been foster carers for dozens of children who come to them broken and traumatised. |
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| Subscriber only: The ACT govt has identified about 70 territory-owned buildings which might be wrapped in potentially flammable cladding. |
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| The ACT government has announced it will lower the age of eligibility for senior discounts from 62 to 60 from July next year. |
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| Subscriber only: Comcare has agreed to more than double the number of hours it will pay for care for a former aid worker. |
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| Soaking wet, but in high spirits, a small group of activists have been camped outside the Bungendore rodeo for hours. |
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| Veterans Affairs Minister Darren Chester says a new diggers discount scheme is designed to complement, not replace, ongoing reform. |
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| When Jodie Dobbie started running she made it to three kilometres, then five kilometres and said when she got to 10 she knew she had to go further. |
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| She trailed Sam Kerr for W-League's Golden Boot honours but now Katie Stengel is set to bolster Canberra United's bid for grand final glory. |
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| The Illawarra Hawks slipped to 1-7 in a 14-point loss at the hands of the Brisbane Bullets in front of 3808 at the AIS Arena on Sunday. |
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| James Tedesco's perfect year had a bitter ending after his wayward past cost the Kangaroos a late chance of victory against Tonga. |
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| Lloyd Williams has likened Frankie Dettori to Roger Federer as the world's most recognisable jockey tries to break a baffling hoodoo. |
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| | Times Past The front page on this day in 1993 carried the full colour of prime minister Paul Keating's verbal barrage at a public servant over the planned purchase of, of all things, a Thai teak table for the Lodge. Controversy over the imported table, to be paid for by the Australiana Fund had been raging for days. The table failed to meet the fund's most basic requirement of being related to Australia. Having taken a redundancy, Margaret Betteridge, the fine arts adviser to fund, went public with her version of events, which was that she had opposed Mr Keating's proposed $20,000 acquisition. But as he so often did, Mr Keating hit back the hardest at what he called the "revenge of the hyphenated names", the "blue rinse set" and the "old Tory antique club". READ MORE
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