Good morning, Canberra. There's a strong chance of showers and a thunderstorm today with a top of 20 degrees. Here’s what’s making news in the capital.
Photos: Three months after COVID spread through hospitality venues in Canberra, soon becoming the ACT's worst virus outbreak, the clubs identified as initial exposure locations will finally be permitted to reopen.
Subscriber: With world class COVID-19 vaccination rates in the ACT and Friday's return to baseline restrictions, the Morrison government is laying out to the Commonwealth public service a "strong expectation" of returning to the office.
The opposition will call on the ACT government to outline its contingency plans for Canberra's light rail system if its rolling stock experiences a fault seen in the same model vehicles in Sydney and around the world.
Subscriber: A global engineering firm found to have breached its duty of care after one of its elevators in Canberra plummeted learns the outcome of its appeal.
The Morrison government wants to hand its clean energy bank an extra $500 million and expand its remit to allow investment in controversial carbon capture and storage projects, under a plan to help reach its net zero by 2050 target.
The ACT government has shied away from declaring a housing crisis in the territory, instead pointing to a global crisis in affordability that has also affected Canberra and committing to lobby the federal government on the issue.
Opinion: After all the pain of 2020 and 2021, next year is looking - at least economically speaking - like an ideal time for Scott Morrison to call an election and to be returned to government, writes Peter Martin.
Queanbeyan High School principal Jennifer Green said this year's cohort was particularly dedicated, having dealt with two years of disruption to their schooling caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
