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AM edition, Tuesday, October 20, 2020

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Record number of female MLAs enter Assembly

Subscriber only: Of the 25 members for the next parliamentary term, 14 of them will be women, an increase from 13 in the last term.

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Alistair Coe's future as leader up in the air

Subscriber only: Internal angst about the Liberal party's campaign strategy and conservative power base spilled over on Monday.

Businessman tried to import $144m of cocaine

Subscriber only: As Adam Hunter waited for an excavator full of cocaine, someone arrived at his home to disconnect the electricity.

Auditor contacted police in July over airport land deal

The Auditor took the extraordinary step of contacting police over a land deal where taxpayers paid 10 times what the property was worth.

Sickies fell, job satisfaction rose for work at home APS

Subscriber only: Public Service Commissioner Peter Woolcott says the pandemic improved how the Commonwealth bureaucracy worked.

Public servants stood down for $30m airport deal

Department secretary Simon Atkinson said he agreed it looked like someone within the department had tried to cover up what had happened.

HSC students 'stoic' despite COVID-19

Fifty Queanbeyan High School students will sit their first exam this morning, despite disruptions to learning caused by the pandemic.

The original Brodburger van is back with a bang

Food and Wine: And this time there's no waiting for two hours for a feed.

Unfair dismissal trial against Lambie begins

An unfair dismissal trial instigated by two former staffers of Senator Jacqui Lambie has heard about workplace concerns.

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Wighton becomes third Raider to win Dally M

It isn't the medal Canberra Raiders star Jack Wighton wanted this year, but it's a pretty good consolation prize.

Will Canberra Liberals learn from this defeat?

Opinion: It's not a hard lesson to learn - it's just too hard for the conservative wing of the party to accept, writes Tim Colebatch.

Man of Steele joins ACT Aussie rules royalty

Subscriber only: St Kilda star Jack Steele could only smile when he heard the Canberra names he'd joined in Brownlow Medal voting.

Fine dining at a shared table with strangers?

Food and Wine: Review: Table by Canberra Gourmet is charmingly Canberran. And unlike most other restaurants.

Times Past

Telephones were to come in technicolour, reported The Canberra Times 59 years ago. Telephone subscribers had an option to choose one of six colours for their telephone receivers. The colours of choice were light ivory, mist grey, fern green, topaz yellow, lacquer red and standard black. READ MORE

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