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New beepers could save Canberra's convention industry from its billion-dollar deficit

Here's the buzz: the big-money Canberra conference industry is banking on a small piece of technology to bring back the money it's lost due to COVID-19.

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Playing the rhetoric game: How good is political spin?

Opinion: Morrison and Berejiklian have the rhetoric game down. They could have helped Australia Post, writes Nicholas Stuart.

NRL exit the Origin of Cotric's newfound fire

Subscriber only: Nick Cotric went into the Blues camp on Friday after a week off following the Raiders' preliminary final loss to the Storm.

Rise in IVF babies as families consider options

Many more couples are using IVF to try to have babies since the coronavirus pandemic forced a lockdown on the country.

The Canberran dancer in an Archibald finalist

Currently hanging in the Art Gallery of NSW as one of the finalists in the 2020 Archibald Prize is a portrait with the title Requiem (JR).

Times Past

On this day 49 years ago, The Canberra Times reported on a 45-year-old former drover who was selected as Australian Inventor of the Year on the TV show What'll They Think of Next? for his invention of the "cycloidal variable-ratio transmission". Included in his winnings was a car fitted with an automatic transmission, ironically the very kind of machinery which his invention would make obsolete. His invention was the result of nine years' work, many frustrations and dead ends, and about $20,000. READ MORE