Good news: An induced labour on New Year's Day was perhaps not the beginning to the year the Shinde family had expected. The addition of a healthy baby boy to their family, however, was a wonderful start to 2023.
ACT politics: Chief Minister Andrew Barr says the Commonwealth's annual infrastructure spend in the ACT should at least double to reflect Canberra's population and there was a "powerful case" for more federal investment in light rail.
Police: Twenty-three drunk people were taken into police custody during New Year's Eve celebrations in Canberra, police saying crowd behaviour was poor in the city.
Health: Australia will impose mandatory COVID-19 testing for travellers arriving from China after a spike in cases in the key tourism and business market.
Hobbies: Mina Hsu was the first person to strike a coin at the Royal Australian Mint in 2023, having found out about the annual event only the day before.
Public service: New ministers, new secretaries, new bosses, a new government and a new monarch - there was plenty of change in the APS in 2022, writes Harley Dennett.
2002 cabinet documents: Months before Australians were rocked by a deadly bombing in Bali, the Howard government was facing tough funding decisions as it ramped up its "war on terror", newly-released documents show.
ACT politics: The ACT government's Chief Minister, Treasury and Economic Development Directorate breached freedom of information laws after it failed to upload documents onto the disclosure log for more than three months.
2002 cabinet documents: Six years before a controversial immigration detention centre was built on Christmas Island, John Howard's cabinet ministers agreed detaining people arriving by sea offshore was the future.
Opinion: Today the mission has changed and this explains the changing composition of Parliament, posing direct challenges for all parties, writes Nicholas Stuart.
Sport: From world cups, to Wimbledon, the Wallabies and the Ashes, Caden Helmers runs his eye over the events and athletes sports lovers need to follow in 2023.
