Freezing and below zero.
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That's what we have to get used to waking up to this week Canberra as chilly weather starts to bite.
After morning frost Monday is set to reach a top temperature of 11 degrees. Minimum temperatures are forecast to reach -2 on Tuesday, -1 on Wednesday and dip even lower later in the week.
Daily maximum temperatures are forecast to skirt between 12 to 15 degrees all week, so rug up Canberra!
Let's see what's making news.
Secret plan for radical hospital overhaul revealed in leaks
Leaked documents have revealed the nation's most senior health bureaucrats are part of a secret taskforce developing a radical hospital overhaul.
Under the proposal the private health insurance rebate would be abolished, consumers would be charged more for extras cover and the states would be forced to find more money for public hospitals
Like Canberra no more
A political party that wanted to forgive each Canberran one parking ticket a year if it won a seat in the 2016 ACT Election has been deregistered.
Remember Like Canberra for your ballot paper?
Data problems on Health Minister's radar before election
Meegan Fitzharris and her predecessor Simon Corbell were verbally briefed about the problems with ACT Health's data systems.
Despite years of issues with the systems, neither minister detailed the discovery that the directorate was not using any data reporting standards until after the poll.
How David's work is hurting his work
Experts are calling for scientists to withhold data from published research, in order to protect rare species from poaching.
The ANU Fenner School of Environment and Society's David Lindenmayer said more than 20 newly-described species had been targeted by poachers.
Mountain bike trails back at National Arboretum
Canberra mountain bikers will soon return to their "ancestral home" after a team of volunteers began rebuilding trails at Greenhills, now the National Arboretum.
Plans for the trails were forged 25 years ago, but when fires razed the area in 2003 riders thought their hopes were dashed.