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| Subscriber: It's one year on since the day a devastating storm hit Canberra, bringing with it golf ball-sized hail and winds blowing at more than 110km/h. |
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| ACT Chief Minister Andrew Barr says there could be merit in requiring COVID-19 vaccinations for entry into certain high-risk settings. |
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| Teachers and support staff at schools and early childhood services should be in the priority group of critical workers, a teachers' union says. |
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| The PM won't speak to the President in the final days of his term, but the Opposition Leader is set to accuse him of being too close to Trump. |
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| Analysis: The government's bid to force big tech to pay for news won't find many friends in the White House, writes Harley Dennett. |
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| Subscriber: The public sector union plans to launch its own census to take the temperature of workers forgotten by the government. |
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| Canberrans are falling back into homelessness at the second-highest rate in the country, as demand for help spikes due to recent disasters. |
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| Rishabh Pant stormed Australia's Gabba fortress, helping India to an astonishing win in one of the greatest Test series of the modern era. |
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| Opinion: Biden's accession lessens the air of failure surrounding many former colleagues who aspired to higher office, writes Stephen Holt. |
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| Subscriber: An exercise scientist says this year's Australian Open is a "once-in-a-lifetime match point" for Australian players not in lockdown. |
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| Explainer: There's little prospect of foreign travel by air or sea taking place in the foreseeable future, writes Steve Evans. |
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| | Times Past Australia was moving boldly into the future in 1970. On the front page of The Canberra Times, it was reported that over the next decade measures would be put in place to allow Australia to convert to the metric system. The decision was announced on the night of January 19, 1970, by Prime Minister John Gorton. "Mr Gorton gave no estimate of the cost of changeover, but it could run up to $100 million over a 10-year period," the article read.
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