| Good morning, Canberra. There's a chance of rain this afternoon with an expected top of 20 degrees. Here's what's making news in the capital. |
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| Subscriber: The Agriculture Department is standing by a senior executive who has been accused of "incompetence" in the Senate. |
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| Subscriber: The government will use a $41 million research package to identify APS jobs to move into regional areas, says the Deputy PM. |
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| Subscriber: Flexible working will attract employees to federal agencies competing with the private sector, a new public service plan says. |
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| Calls to some Canberra GPs more than doubled yesterday, but clinics administering AstraZeneca still don't know when they're receiving doses. |
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| Tziporah Atarah Malkah, also known as Kate Fischer, was topless while filming a police officer as he questioned her on the South Coast. |
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| The EU regulator will release its findings on Thursday but its head said she saw no reason to change its recommendation of AstraZeneca. |
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| A network of spies "cultivated and recruited" a government security clearance holder with access to secret defence technology info, ASIO says. |
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| Subscriber: Ideological extremism now makes up about 40 per cent of ASIO's counter-terrorism caseload, the spy agency's boss has warned. |
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| Explainer: The country is battling a rising number of COVID-19 cases, and Prime Minister Scott Morrison says Australia is going to help out. |
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| Opinion: Despite some European countries' jitters, the data shows no increased risk of blood clots from the AstraZeneca vaccine. |
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| Subscriber: Those around the rugby sevens team suggest Ella Ryan's character defies the date on her birth certificate. |
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| Opinion: Scott Morrison has a better ear for electoral messages than he does for social movements, writes John Warhurst. |
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| More than 4000 donations were made at the event, including one single donation of $75,000, to help Canberrans in need. |
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| | Times Past A 12-year-old Queanbeyan boy had most likely established a world age record in the 3000 metre steeplechase, despite only running the event a handful of times previously, The Canberra Times reported on this day 47 years ago. Meanwhile, a hoard of $6000 was found stuffed in an old electric griller that was being prepared for auction on behalf of the Curator of Estates of Dead Persons. READ MORE
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