| Good morning Canberra. Take care out there as we're in for another very hot and windy day with a top temperature of 34 expected. Here's the headlines. |
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| The Bureau of Meteorology has forecast a more than 80 per cent chance of conditions being drier than usual over this summer in Canberra. |
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| Subscriber only: The minister in charge of the Coalition's service delivery reboot is revealing more of its vision to improve Centrelink. |
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| A fire burning in Tallaganda National Park, 50 kilometres from Canberra, was described as ‘out of control’ by the NSW RFS last night. |
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| One Nation has blocked the government's union-busting bill in a shock upset, topping off a disastrous week for the Morrison government. |
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| The ACT Integrity Commission will be asked to investigate the now-defunct Land Development Agency's controversial land deals. |
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| Female army veterans are taking their own lives at more than twice the rate of the Australian population, a landmark report has found. |
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| Subscriber only: World-renowned urban change consultant Charles Landry opens up on what he thinks of Canberra's transformation. |
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| The ACT Brumbies have landed another key piece of their long-term puzzle, re-signing hooker Folau Faingaa until the end of 2022. |
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| Aidan Sezer's four-year stint at the Canberra Raiders has come to a close with the halfback bound for the UK Super League with Huddersfield. |
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| Subscriber only: They're known for an orange tsunami on the park but GWS's movements off it are having a ripple effect in Canberra. |
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| Jake Willsey flew across the world for a chance to ignite his baseball career and says paying his own way to get to Canberra was worth it. |
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| | Times Past The fact that the French were still executing people using the guillotine just a few decades ago is probably surprising to many readers. But on this day in 1972, news of the executions of two convicted murderers by beheading made the front page. The two men, Claude Buffet, 42, and Roger Bontemps, 37, were executed for the killing of two hostages during an attempted escape from prison, where they were serving long sentences for murder. The method of execution would hang around in France until 1981. READ MORE
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