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The ACT businesses booming during COVID

Canberra cleaning and IT businesses have been among the few winners since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.

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He's rebuilt his face, now it's time for his confidence

Subscriber only: He's been physically ready, but the past couple of weeks have been about rebuilding Sia Soliola's confidence.

Weapons for the wars of the future

Opinion: When it comes to defence, there's a new way of doing things and this requires new ways of thinking, writes Nicholas Stuart.

Who's going to be the next President of the USA?

Explainer: There's seven weeks to go before a very big election with very big ramifications for the United States and the world.

What it takes to feed a family of rugby players

Subscriber only: Tony Abel shudders to think of how much time he spent loading up trolleys to feed a family full of rugby players.

Times Past

Making news this day 42 years ago, was the birth of a duckling that came from an egg found on O'Malley Hill. When 13-year-old Bernard McCoy, of Garran, found an egg on O'Malley Hill he was not confident that it would hatch. You see, Bernard had found an egg once before on one of his walks which evidently turned out to be a hard-boiled one. However, with this newfound egg, he kept it on a shelf in his bedroom for a week.
Then one of his family's Chinese Silkie hens became broody and so, Bernard put the egg beneath her. READ MORE