Canberra light rail a 'vote changer'
ACT Govt's signature light rail project looms as a vote changing issue at 2016 election.
ACT economy 'second worst'
Uncertainty about jobs has shaken investors' confidence in Canberra.
Digger pay may suffer for war
Defence forces told to take pay cut to help fix budget under strain because of Iraq.
Elective surgery queues shorten
But ACT waiting times, about seven weeks for elective surgery, longer than most.
Bus trips rise over pay parking
Parliamentary triangle changes motivate more Canberrans to abandon cars.
PS 'classification creep' ends
Public service middle-management ranks shrink for the first time in 15 years.
Aust unis pressured to divest fossil fuels
Pressure for the nation’s leading universities to join the Australian National University and ...
ACT upgrades to A-E scale for year 10
Education Minister Joy Burch has confirmed the move to traditional grades, connecting the year 10 ...
Trainee teachers on the scrapheap
An hour ago Only half the people who train to be teachers get a full-time job after graduating.
Psychosis fears after 'ice' use rises among injecting drug users
Hospitals and drug clinics are bracing themselves for more patients presenting with psychosis and ...
Women muck into it for Miss Muddy
How better to spend a Sunday than climbing walls, crawling through mud, water slides and ice baths.
Grieving parents urge end to conflict
Parents who lost their three children in the MH17 plane crash have pleaded for the "pointless war" ...
Creek body not human, a pig
Police uncover what the fisherman found in the creek.
Jerrabomberra car theft arrests
Three people have been arrested over theft from parked motor vehicles.
Tassie devil killed at US zoo
Staff at Australian sanctuary saddened to learn one of its devils killed in America.
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