Good morning, Canberra. We're in for a partly cloudy final day of Autumn, with a slight chance of rain and a top of 15 degrees. Here are the headlines.

Raiders restart the NRL season in style with a big win in Melbourne

It's the first time the Canberra Raiders have beaten the Melbourne Storm three times in a row and the first time they've started a season 3-0 since 2005.

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Try this for a good home away from home

With travelling overseas out of the question, what does a staycation in Canberra look like? Here's what hotels have on offer.

Smith 'Shares a Yarn' with indigenous communities

Subscriber only: Olympian Beki Smith, who felt as though the odds were stacked against her, hopes to inspire the next generation.

An inward focus is a tragic thing for the arts

Opinion: The National Library of Australia will soon no longer be home to one of the world's most extensive Asia collections.

Mulholland boost for the Canberra Raiders

Subscriber only: Recruitment guru Peter Mulholland was at his understated best talking about the good news in his battle with cancer.

Times Past

A survey on Canberra's sex industry was being conducted in 1987 and The Canberra Times was reporting on some of the results on this day. The ACT AIDS Action Council reported that some massage parlour managers were putting sex workers lives at risk because of ignorance. The president of the council, Mr Jim Arachne, said some parlour managers believed their workers could "pick" people with AIDS simply by looking at them. Some managers had pressured workers into not using condoms for fear of losing business. READ MORE