| Good morning, Canberra. We're in for a partly cloudy day and a top of 22 degrees. Here's what's making news in the capital today. |
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| Subscriber | Analysis: Telling protesters how lucky they are not to be met with bullets is just one of the ways the Prime Minister completely misread the room on Monday, writes Sally Whyte. |
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| Lead dust has been found in more ACT schools as the Education Directorate rolls out new sustainable demountable classrooms. |
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| Subscriber: A trio of inner-north residents believe their plan for communal living, a first for the ACT, can change the city's planning laws. |
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| Subscriber: The government's proposed federal integrity body has been labelled "problematic" and its scope too narrow. |
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| You'd be forgiven for thinking there was a festival happening on the lawns of Federation Mall on Monday. |
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| Drought-resistant plants and crops are now one step closer to being a reality, thanks to a breakthrough from Canberra researchers. |
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| A Chisholm pharmacy is one of the first in Australia to benefit from a new defibrillator rollout. |
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| Germany, France and Italy say they will stop administering the AstraZeneca vaccine after countries report possible side-effects. |
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| Australia's Chief Medical Officer Paul Kelly says the vaccine chosen as Australia's mainstay is safe and effective. |
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| Myanmar security forces have fired on pro-democracy demonstrators killing two people, witnesses say, a day after dozens were shot dead. |
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| Opinion: There's a reason people use megaphones at protests. It's because people like Scott Morrison are so tone deaf, writes Sally Pryor. |
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| Subscriber: Elite women's athletes have been let down by a lack of a first-class indoor venue in the ACT, Sports Minister Yvette Berry says. |
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| Food & Wine: This year's Canberra District Wine Week is a double celebration, writes Karen Hardy. |
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| Subscriber: It will take about four weeks, but after that Ryan James says he'll have put any hesitancy about his knee behind him. |
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| | Times Past What started as two brothers playing turned out to be a nail-biting situation for parents. On this day in 1968, The Canberra Times reported on a four-year old boy that was missing for 10 hours. He was found at 9.30pm locked in a cupboard of a vacant house. The house from which police rescued Nigel Croon, of Curtin, was only yards from his own home. Nigel's father, Chris Croon, said Nigel was unharmed but very hoarse, probably from crying.
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