Good morning, Canberra. After a mostly sunny morning there's a chance of showers and a gusty thunderstorm in the afternoon and evening, with a top of 32 degrees. Here’s what’s making news in the capital.
Video: Health authorities are confident they can meet demand for COVID-19 tests in the ACT in the lead up to Christmas despite downsizing the territory's main drive-through testing clinic.
Subscriber: An employee of the Australian Education Union ACT branch has lodged a claim for damages after she was allegedly bullied by the former branch secretary.
Doctors in Canberra are being inundated with requests from anxious travellers unclear on whether they should head off for the Christmas break or hunker down at home.
Subscriber: A leading Canberra barrister has lost a protracted fight against a $297 speeding fine despite his solicitor's argument that "Einstein would turn in his grave".
Subscriber | Opinion: Can Australians feel confident Defence Minister Peter Dutton, whose authoritarian temperament is of the China mould, has calculated how his words will be received, asks Jack Waterford.
Subscriber: Rental prices across Canberra houses have risen almost 9 per cent this year, but the median weekly rent in some Canberra suburbs has increased by almost double.
Subscriber: A "drug-f---ed" home invader, who cut off part of a man's ear with a machete, may walk free from prison seven months earlier than anticipated after successfully challenging the severity of his sentence.
Explore: The Federal Government has continued the almost two-year ban on foreign flagged cruise ships until February 17 – devastating the industry which has lost 18,000 jobs and $5 billion in revenue.
Subscriber: Forty years ago, Canberra thrill-seekers were jamming the turnstiles at the city's first ever theme park. Like its iconic rides, the park had its ups and downs over the years.
