Good morning, Canberra. It'll be a sunny start to the day heating up to 29 degrees, with a chance of rain later on. Here’s what’s making news in the capital.
Subscriber: A wealthy "puppeteer" with deep connections to a foreign government and its spy agency had planned to undermine a federal election with compromised candidates.
The Canberra Liberals have drawn a link between a profit the ACT Greens made in public funding and a Braddon office the party has opened in time for its federal election campaign.
In a blow to the government, the opposition and crossbench was successful in amending a controversial clause allowing religious schools to discriminate on grounds including sexuality and gender identity.
Watch: Ministerial offices are filled with inexperienced advisors who have an "upstairs, downstairs" two-tiered approach to the public service and government with themselves on top, warns former Liberal political staffer Brittany Higgins.
Former Australian of the Year Grace Tame has praised the ACT for its proposed reform to change the name of the crime "sexual relationship with a child" to "persistent sexual abuse of a child".
Watch: ACT Policing and the ACT government will continue to monitor the protests over the coming days, with the activity believed to have hit its peak.
Analysis: Brittany Higgins and Grace Tame spoke of new politics and real cultural change on Wednesday, while still decrying the status quo, writes Karen Barlow.
After mostly studying remotely since the onset of the pandemic, Soumi Gopalakrishnan was excited to be back on campus to embark on a doctorate of medicine and surgery.
Chloe Lincoln, 17, has been promoted into the number-one spot after Canberra United's goalkeeper Keeley Richards suffered a knee injury against the Newcastle Jets.
