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AM edition, Sunday, March 21, 2021

Good morning, Canberra. The rain is tipped to continue today with a top of 19 degrees. Here's what's making news in the capital.

Heavy falls on the way in Canberra as NSW experiences widespread floods

Canberra is set to round out the weekend with heavy rain, while parts of NSW are inundated with near record-breaking flood waters which carried a house float down the Manning River.

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NSW cops most extreme rain in decades

Riverbanks have burst, dams are spilling over, roads are cut and residents are on alert as NSW faces its worst flooding in decades.

Abandon all-day 40km/h school zones: expert

Subscriber: Graeme Shoobridge helped design and implement the ACT's school zone system. He says it's time for it to be updated.

Footage taped over in sexual assault claim

Subscriber: The woman's case will likely be dropped after police failed to visit the club to request CCTV footage before it was taped over.

Application for next Ginninderry suburb due

Subscriber: A development application for the first stage of the second suburb, Macnamara, will be submitted this year.

Records auction mistake costs ACT government

Subscriber: The ACT government was forced to pay more than $9000 in fees to an auction house over a mistake with territory records.

Queanbeyan on board to tackle homelessness

A new "sleepbus" will provide shelter to people sleeping on the streets of Queanbeyan to help bring awareness to a rising homelessness issue.

Researcher's skepticism over psychedelics

An MDMA researcher has questioned the "hyped up" findings from studies into the potential of psychedelics to treat PTSD.

Clots after AstraZeneca shot in Denmark

Denmark has reported two cases of hospital staff with blood clots and cerebral haemorrhage after receiving the vaccination.

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Our distorted ideas of intimacy

Opinion | Karen Hardy: What chance do our children have when so many adults are still getting sex wrong?

Safety first for Raiders as NRL monitors Kogarah

Subscriber: The Canberra Raiders have backed the NRL to ensure a sodden Kogarah Park is safe to play on against the Sharks on Sunday.

Different strokes for ACT's multicultural folks

Opinion: There is always more than one way for people from different cultural backgrounds to get along, writes Kim Huynh.

Beautiful chaos: Genesis Owusu's debut album

Smiling With No Teeth may've been a long time in the making, but somehow the album couldn't feel more of the moment.

Times Past

People were warned to take care when lighting fires because there was a high fire danger surrounding the ACT's countryside, The Canberra Times reported on its front page on this day 40 years ago. And you would be forgiven for thinking of Dickensian London, seeing 17-year-old Caroline Owens pictured on the front page working as a chimney sweep. READ MORE

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