Good morning, Canberra. There's a very high chance of showers and a thunderstorm today with a top of 23 degrees. Here’s what’s making news in the capital.
Court: The Canberra Times has acquired the Fiction nightclub CCTV that blindsided prosecutors, who it's understood hadn't received the key angle as part of a police brief of evidence.
ACT politics: The team behind the ACT's digital health record reported having an unsustainable workload, burnout and poor treatment in parts of a staff survey which ACT Health initially refused to release.
Optus crash: Businesses are counting the costs after yesterday's nationwide network outage ground trading to a halt, as attention turns to compensation and a parliamentary inquiry into what caused it.
Property: Homebuyers in the ACT will not pay stamp duty on flats and townhouses bought off-the-plan up to $800,000 under an extension of the territory government's waiver scheme.
Procurement: Hand sanitiser that could fill more than 40,000 bathtubs that was bought during the pandemic has been handed over to waste companies, having expired and become a hazard.
Court: Liberal senator Linda Reynolds will meet former political staffer Brittany Higgins and her partner in a bid to settle two high-profile defamation cases.
Christmas | Video: Santa school is open for festive fans but recruiters are reporting a shortage in Santa applicants, threatening to leave shopping centre thrones empty.
Environment: Australian supermarkets have been accused of secrecy and relying on "false solutions" while claiming they are tackling the plastic packaging crisis.
