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Canberra Qantas ground staff fight to save jobs

Subscriber only: Qantas ground staff in Canberra have had to reapply to keep their jobs, saying that isn't "The Spirit of Australia" during a pandemic.

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A real sense of drama at Armada by the lakeside

Review: Canberra has needed a proper lakeside venue for ages, and now it has one in the form of Armada Outdoor Bar.

Capitals put on a clinic to shut down Southside

Subscriber only: The Capitals put on a clinic to secure a monster 95-72 win over the Southside Flyers in a WNBL grand final rematch.

Where the fight against COVID will be won or lost

Opinion: Years of reducing poverty will be wasted if we don't change how financial markets treat developing countries, writes Adam Triggs.

Hundreds and thousands of ways to pimp fairy bread

With National Fairy Bread Day upon us, Karen Hardy has some ideas to take it to the next level.

Times Past

"Raindrops keep falling on their heads" was the title of a story featured on the front page of The Canberra Times on this day in 1976. Roof repairs at a Department of Defence building in Campbell Park were understood to have been delayed because of new policy on government purchasing. People in parts of the building worked underneath umbrellas, and others assembled plastic sheets to catch water which poured through the roof in wet weather. READ MORE