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20 Nov 09 | Australians are deeply divided over genetically modified crops, with almost a third believing they are risky and another quarter unsure of their safety.
20 Nov 09 | Delays in opening the first ACT jail have cost Canberrans an estimated $3.5 million, with the Attorney-General copping criticism for his handling of the project.
19 Nov 09 | Captain Dominic James ran out of options as his plane - carrying a critically ill woman and four others - was running out of fuel near Norfolk Island.
19 Nov 09 | Trishna, one of the formerly conjoined Bangladeshi twins separated by surgery, is awake and being cuddled by her Australian guardian.
19 Nov 09 | Surging public service wages could help force the Reserve Bank to raise interest rates, an economist warns.
19 Nov 09 | A Kambah woman appeared in the ACT Magistrates Court yesterday accused of trafficking sex slaves.
19 Nov 09 | The guardian of twins Krishna and Trishna says her beautiful girls have defied the odds, and that the surgeons who separated them performed a miracle.
19 Nov 09 | The ACT leads Australia in soaring rents and has recorded strong home loan growth despite a nationwide slump in new home starts, reports say.
19 Nov 09 | Australia's emissions trading scheme will be more than $36billion in the red by 2020 and generate up to 30,000 fewer jobs in the short term if the Opposition's amendments are accepted.
19 Nov 09 | As the final concrete pour settles on the 17th floor of Canberra's most upmarket apartments, another premium lakeside site goes under the hammer this morning with a question mark over the sale's timing.
19 Nov 09 | As Canberra prepares to swelter through hot and blustery conditions, emergency services will be on high alert, with the agency shifting today's bushfire warning to severe.
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19 Nov 09 | A community meeting over the proposed mosque at Nicholls last night resulted in frayed tempers and one accusation of racism.
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18 Nov 09 | The head of the charity that brought conjoined twins Krishna and Trishna to Melbourne for surgery has described the sight of the girls in separate beds as "beautiful".
18 Nov 09 | Police today shot a man in a confrontation at a house in Sydney's south-west.
18 Nov 09 | He may be just months away from taking up his post as ambassador to the United States, but Kim Beazley was focused yesterday on a different episode in the history of Australian-American relations.
18 Nov 09 | The Federal Government has pushed back politically difficult decisions about the rationalisation and possible closure of military bases until after the next federal election.
18 Nov 09 | An independent traffic report says 250 people will use a new mosque planned for Nicholls during peak times and the proposal to provide just 71 parking spaces on the site will met the Territory Plan's needs.
18 Nov 09 | Moves to make Canberra carbon neutral by 2060 have been criticised for failing to outline clear reduction targets.
18 Nov 09 | ACT Policing has apologised for any inconvenience caused by one of its operations during peak hour in Tuggeranong yesterday morning, but says the results were worth it.
18 Nov 09 | ACT Policing says it is concerned for the welfare of two children who were unlawfully taken from Ainslie School on Monday afternoon.