| Good morning Canberra, and welcome to the last working week before Christmas. It's set to reach 32 degrees today. Here's what making news. |
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| Subscriber only: Icon Water says the Murrumbidgee to Googong pipeline is no white elephant, even though it's never been used. |
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| Subscriber only: Vegetable and fruit bags will also be phased out, a decade after the territory first banned single-use plastic bags. |
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| It is predicted to reach 43 degrees on Saturday, which would top our previous high of 42.2 degrees in February 1968. |
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| Subscriber only: Andrew Barr has failed to deliver his predicted surplus, instead ending the last financial year $118 million in the red. |
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| Subscriber only: A campaigner hopes revised plans for the multi-unit Coombs project will better suit the community. |
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| After Alex Ihasz hastily scribbled his signature, he had the sinking feeling he would regret it. |
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| The government is putting profits from residential developments ahead of housing affordability, Opposition Leader Alistair Coe says. |
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| Australia has demolished New Zealand in Perth, needing just four days to dismantle the world No. 2 side. |
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| Subscriber only: A former Croatia Deakin life member will fight his expulsion from the club where he played for 28 years. |
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| WNBL referees are set to find themselves in the spotlight following a host of controversial calls which marred a top of the table contest. |
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| Subscriber only: Callum Ferguson knows all too well the question marks that hovered over the scrappers from Sydney's west. |
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| | Times Past We know them these days in slang terms as pineapples, and it was on this day in 1972 that Australians learned they'd be getting a $50 note for the first time. In a statement from the Governor of the Reserve Bank, Sir John Phillips, came news the bigger denomination was going to land due to the "increasing use by the community of the $20 note" aka the lobster. READ MORE
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