What's on: Thousands of people are expected to pack out the city centre for the National Multicultural Festival from Friday, with eight stages of entertainment.
Public service: The Infrastructure department introduced a suite of new training programs for its 2024 graduate cohort, after allegations some male graduates in the year prior had created a degrading list of their female colleagues.
Sport: Australian Sports Commission chief executive Kieren Perkins has called for urgent funding in the AIS as fears grow of a sporting wipeout at the 2032 Olympics.
Public service: Home Affairs secretary Stephanie Foster says she will not seek to reprimand individuals in her response to a review into offshore processing contracts.
Opinion: How is China any better than any other criminal terrorist who threatens to shoot a hostage unless the terrorist's demands are met, asks Crispin Hull.
Community: The rabbits are gone. Now the future awaits. Canberrans will be invited to put forward ideas for the future of City Hill, the long-overlooked park at the centre of London Circuit.
Federal politics | Analysis: To murmurs from the benches on both sides at 2.57pm, Mr Joyce turned up in the lower house chamber for the good burghers of New England, writes Karen Barlow.
Sport: Capital Football's new chief executive officer is determined to hit the ground running in her new role, starting with the Throsby Home of Football.
Sport: This could be a career-making year for young Canberra Raiders forward Trey Mooney, and starting 2024 with representative honours has helped put wind in his sails.
Court: A construction worker, who is reportedly banned from Tinder in Peru, is accused of catfishing and indecently assaulting a woman he met on the dating app.
