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AM edition, Thursday, November 28, 2019
Good morning Canberra. We're in for another hot but windy day, with a top temperature of 31 degrees. Here's what's making headlines in the capital.

Canberra's spies step out from the shadows... but please don't mention the wig

James Bond's boss is M. In Australia's intelligence community, M has a name: ASIO director-general Mike Burgess. Here's what he's been up to.

Top stories

ACT govt to spend up to $250m on new Woden CIT

Subscriber only: The new Phillip campus would accommodate 6500 students a year and focus on cyber technology and service skills.

ACT has highest student rents in the country

Subscriber only: Students like ANU's Apoorva Raghubanshi fear falling ill as they would be unable to afford medical costs on top of rent.

New trust allows you to directly help national parks

Conservation projects in national park areas were previously only able to be financed through government funding.

Ngunnawal language welcome in ACT Assembly

Parliamentarians will co-sponsor a motion for the acknowledgement of country at the start of each sitting day to be delivered in Ngunnawal.

Canberra fast rail route proposal gaining steam

Subscriber only: Chief Minister Andrew Barr will take part in a panel discussion with the National Faster Rail Agency on Friday.

Robodebt process ruled unlawful in Federal Court

It comes a week after Government Services Minister Stuart Robert said no further debts would be raised using income averaging only.

Sport

Green gets to live his Giant AFL dream

Tom Green is a Giant. The Canberra product was taken by GWS with pick 10 after they matched the Carlton Blues' bid in the AFL draft.

The answer Ricky Stuart is searching for

Subscriber only: Ricky Stuart looks around at a group of wide-eyed youngsters and wants to know just one thing: what's under the jumper?

Capitals take a stand against violence

Subscriber only: This weekend is about so much more than basketball, and so much more than wins and losses for the Canberra Capitals.

Campbell traded golf for waves, but now he's back

Chris Campbell spends more time thinking about surfing than golf, which is why he's so relaxed ahead of his tournament comeback.

Times Past

The front page of The Canberra Times was dominated by national and international news on this day in 1967, but a couple of small local stories made the mix - including the ACT Council of Social Service being asked to set up a sub-committee to examine the needs of older people in Canberra. A quirk of note from this paper was a pointer to page 12 just above that story, which was labelled "for women".  READ MORE
 
 
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