Defence Minister Richard Marles has warned "everything is on the table", including bureaucratic reform, as Australia looks to manage major new defence projects while heading off delays and cost blowouts, Eleanor Campbell reports.

In the shining corporate centre of Australia's most prosperous city, two small tents are pitched in the freezing cold. Steve Evans speaks to two of the many people sleeping rough this winter about the loneliness and, yes, the cold of living homeless in Canberra.

Housing density, overturning a fireworks ban, and even permitting gel blasters are part of an eclectic range of policy topics up for debate among Canberra's Liberals. Jasper Lindell reports on the first policy summit since the party lost its seventh-straight ACT election.

The ANU attacked a union-organised staff survey that was critical of the university's leadership, but it has resisted releasing results of its own survey, Australia Institute senior economist Jack Thrower writes in opinion.

And Jed Stuart and his dad Ricky are set to make history for the Canberra Raiders this Friday, Melanie Dinjaski reports.

Today should be partly cloudy after an overnight low of 4 degrees, and a forecast top of 12. Overnight temperatures are expected to drop below zero mid-week.

John-Paul Moloney, managing editor