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Andrew and Louise Breed, with children Alice and Tom, are in quarantine. Picture: Dion Georgopoulos

Hundreds of families in quarantine after school exposures

Lanie Tindale
Olivia Ireland
Lucy Bladen

Children will be able to get vaccinated from next month. Picture: Sitthixay Ditthavong

Australian children to finally get COVID-19 vaccines

Finn McHugh

Australia will dump its Taipan helicopter fleet for US-made Black Hawks and Seahawks.

Australia to scrap Taipan army helicopters

Andrew Brown
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Ex-NSW premier Gladys Berejiklian says she won't run for a federal seat in next year's election.

Berejiklian won't run for federal politics

Andrew Brown
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'La dolce niente': Public service commissioner and former Australian ambassador to Italy, Peter Woolcott, endorses 'the sweetness of doing nothing' this Christmas break. Picture: Sitthixay Ditthavong

SUBSCRIBER'Sweet nothing' this APS summer break ... except preparing an early budget

Doug Dingwall

Angus Miles Gottaas-Hughes, 22, was granted bail by the ACT Magistrates Court on Thursday. Picture: Toby Vue

SUBSCRIBERMan accused of having child abuse material may also face sex charge

Toby Vue

Flowers placed at the location of an accident on Gordon Ford Way, Taylor. Picture: Elesa Kurtz

'Distressing' death of man crushed by truck in Taylor 'heartbreaking reminder'

Hannah Neale

Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet secretary makes his end-of-year address to the public service on Wednesday. Picture: Keegan Carroll

ANALYSISGaetjens' stoush with Senator Patrick is extraordinary, but politicisation claims have resonated for a reason

Doug Dingwall

Education union rules need reform, ACT branch secretary says

Teen set alight in Victoria road-rage attack

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UK ministers isolate after Joyce contact

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Only give booster jabs to vulnerable: WHO

Andrew and Louise Breed, with children Alice and Tom, are in quarantine. Picture: Dion Georgopoulos

Hundreds of families in quarantine after school exposures

Heavy water flows at Point Hut crossing after rainfall in Canberra this week. Picture: Dion Georgopoulos

'It will stop raining': Sunny skies predicted for weekend

Adam Duncan with daughter Marley, 5. Picture: Elesa Kurtz

Canberra childcare centre to feature on television

The fitness of allrounder Ben Stokes has caused concern for England during the first Ashes Test.

Stokes' injury casts shadow on Gabba Test

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his wife Carrie have announced the birth of their second child.

UK PM and wife announce birth of baby girl

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David Pope's view: Summer harvest

SUBSCRIBERDavid Pope's view: Summer harvest

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Latest on worldwide spread of coronavirus

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WATCHEverything you need to know about vaccines for 5- to 11-year-olds

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Teen set alight in Victoria road-rage attack

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Berejiklian won't run for federal politics

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SILENT ASSASSINWhat this GP prescribes to reverse type 2 diabetes

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Too soon to determine cause of WA bushfire: Police

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Everything you need to know about vaccines for 5-11 year olds

WATCHEverything you need to know about vaccines for 5- to 11-year-olds

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A 19 year old driver was set alight after an incident involving a motorbike rider in Melbourne.

Teen set alight in Victoria road-rage attack

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Ex-NSW premier Gladys Berejiklian says she won't run for a federal seat in next year's election.

Berejiklian won't run for federal politics

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The Margaret River region fire broke out on the morning of Wednesday, December 8 and quickly took hold in dense forest, fanned by hot, gusty winds. Photo: Wallcliffe Volunteer Fire Brigade

Too soon to determine cause of WA bushfire: Police

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Australia will dump its Taipan helicopter fleet for US-made Black Hawks and Seahawks.

Australia to scrap Taipan army helicopters

Andrew Brown
1hr ago

Queensland Police are investigating after a dead woman was pulled from a car in floodwaters.

Second Queensland woman found dead in floodwaters

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Former Army intelligence officer and national security expert Professor John Blaxland. Picture: Dion Georgopoulos

SUBSCRIBER'It's game-on now': ASIO, Defence take crucial step to tackling insider threat

Sarah Basford Canales

A bushfire has ripped through more than 5000 hectares of the Leeuwin-Naturaliste National Park.

Bushfire continues to rage in southwest WA

Michael Ramsey

Health Minister Rachel Stephen-Smith. Picture: Elesa Kurtz

ACT records four new COVID-19 cases

Health Minister Rachel Stephen-Smith. Picture: Elesa Kurtz

ACT records four new COVID-19 cases

New research has found most Australians were likely to get a booster shot. Picture: Karleen Minney

Some hesitant to get booster shots while other nations lack access

New research has found most Australians were likely to get a booster shot. Picture: Karleen Minney

Some hesitant to get booster shots while other nations lack access

Laverty pathology area co-ordinator Ann Deniz with a testing swab. Picture: Karleen Minney

New exposure sites include frozen yogurt shop and gym

Laverty pathology area co-ordinator Ann Deniz with a testing swab. Picture: Karleen Minney

New exposure sites include frozen yogurt shop and gym

Senator Jane Hume. Picture: Sitthixay Ditthavong

Child subsidy caps axed

Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne is visiting Greece, Belgium and Austria on a European tour.

Payne welcomes EU security pledge

Frydenberg to combat problem wharfies

Frydenberg to combat problem wharfies

Christophe Penot says it is difficult to restore trust with Australia "if they are in denial".

Australia in denial on subs: French envoy

A Greens-led senate committee has called for a judicial inquiry into media concentration.

Call for media diversity judicial inquiry

Georgie Moore

Minister Angus Taylor will try to persuade a summit that Australia is doing enough to cut emissions.

Climate 'weaponised' as rivals front forum

Marion Rae

With the Nationals calling the shots on climate policy, Scott Morrison's telegraphed election tactic is a brazen one. Picture: Elesa Kurtz

SUBSCRIBER | OPINIONMorrison reveals his chutzpah on Labor's climate target

John Warhurst

Greens senator Larissa Waters. Picture: Sitthixay Ditthavong

Greens want to 'clean up' politics from the ground up

Sarah Basford Canales

If you are eligible for your COVID-19 booster shot, get it as soon as you can. Picture: Karleen Minney

Simple precautions to contain Omicron

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The United States embassy at Yarralumla. Picture: Jamila Toderas

Could the US become our enemy and China our friend?

Letters to the Editor

Breathe in and breathe out. Remember to breathe. Picture: Shutterstock

SUBSCRIBER | OPINIONHow to put an end to COVIxhaustion

Jenna Price

Peter Crawford, who has admitted stealing a safe from a supermarket. Picture: Facebook

SUBSCRIBERBurglar admits wheeling away $70k in supermarket safe

Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra on a Rat Pack billboard in Majorca. Picture: Shutterstock

SUBSCRIBER'I'm a grown man': Alleged burglar of eggs, Rat Pack photo makes bid to live with mum

Priscilla Palombi, who faces a maximum potential sentence of life in jail. Picture: Instagram

SUBSCRIBERMeth in mail-accused 'excitedly' called agent about $4m package: prosecutor

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There will be lots of places to take a festive photo of your pooch. Picture: Facebook

Christmas pooches picnic at Exhibition Park

Sweet Sun Soaked Gin. Picture: Keegan Carroll

The new gin that is Canberra in a bottle

Amy Martin

Deborah Mailman and Rachel Griffiths in Total Control. Picture: Supplied

WHAT'S ONJoin a Q and A with Rachel Griffiths

There will be lots of places to take a festive photo of your pooch. Picture: Facebook

Christmas pooches picnic at Exhibition Park

Christmas train rides to Santa

Christmas train rides to Santa

Picture: Shutterstock

WHAT'S ONLove fried chicken? There's a Chicken Wing Festival coming to Canberra

The Capitals' home fixture on Sunday has been cancelled due to a positive COVID case.

COVID-positive case cancels Capitals' home game

Josh Hodgson is set to join Parramatta from Canberra at the end of his current NRL deal.

Raiders hooker Hodgson poised for Eels switch in 2023

Sam Kerr ... you don't want to mess with her. Picture: Getty

'Hero' Kerr takes out pitch invader in viral moment

Australia's middle-order batter Travis Head has scored the third-fastest hundred in Ashes history.

Whirlwind Head century justifies return

Queanbeyan junior Josh Fahey was drafted to the Giants last month. GWS will play four AFL matches at Manuka Oval in 2022. Picture: Keegan Carroll

SUBSCRIBERGiants land huge AFL fixtures for Manuka

James Buckley

Joe Tapine at Raiders pre.season training. Picture: Keegan Carroll

Raiders lock in two pre-season trials

James Buckley

Australia's David Warner fell just six runs short of an Ashes Test century against England.

A snapshot of the 1st Ashes Test, day two

Murray Wenzel

Sam Whiteman made his Sydney Thunder debut on Monday night in Canberra. Picture: Getty

SUBSCRIBER'I was staring down the barrel of my career being done'

James Buckley

Cuba has detected its first case of the Omicron variant in a person who travelled from Mozambique.

Latest on worldwide spread of coronavirus

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Cuba has detected its first case of the Omicron variant in a person who travelled from Mozambique.

Latest on worldwide spread of coronavirus

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Minister Karoline Edtstadler says not enough people in Austria have had COVID-19 jabs.

Austria jab mandate applies to all over 14

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Minister Karoline Edtstadler says not enough people in Austria have had COVID-19 jabs.

Austria jab mandate applies to all over 14

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Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has stuck by a pandemic decision to cull minks.

Danish PM defends mink cull oversight

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Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has stuck by a pandemic decision to cull minks.

Danish PM defends mink cull oversight

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Wally Stewart, applicant for the South Coast native title claim, says cultural fisherman are being harassed. Picture: Sitthixay Ditthavong

LISTENWhen culture is a crime: Fishing on the South Coast

Wally Stewart, applicant for the South Coast native title claim, says cultural fisherman are being harassed. Picture: Sitthixay Ditthavong

LISTENWhen culture is a crime: Fishing on the South Coast

Marki the wombat was treated for mange in captivity. This is very rare. Picture: Supplied.

LISTENWombats are rotting to death, meet the people trying to save them

Marki the wombat was treated for mange in captivity. This is very rare. Picture: Supplied.

LISTENWombats are rotting to death, meet the people trying to save them

K'gari was named for the Butchulla spirit who helped create the land and sea and then never wanted to leave. Photo: Shutterstock

LISTENRestoring Aboriginal place names to acknowledge identity and history

K'gari was named for the Butchulla spirit who helped create the land and sea and then never wanted to leave. Photo: Shutterstock

LISTENRestoring Aboriginal place names to acknowledge identity and history

CITY MOVE: Harcourts Horsham agent Tim Coller has sold St John's Church three times, this time most of the demand came from Melbourne, and ended up with a city owner.

City buyers ditch plans to stay close to the office

CITY MOVE: Harcourts Horsham agent Tim Coller has sold St John's Church three times, this time most of the demand came from Melbourne, and ended up with a city owner.

City buyers ditch plans to stay close to the office

No end in sight in race to the regions

No end in sight in race to the regions

No end in sight in race to the regions

No end in sight in race to the regions

Infrastructure and services racing to keep up across regional Australia

Infrastructure and services racing to keep up across regional Australia

Infrastructure and services racing to keep up across regional Australia

Infrastructure and services racing to keep up across regional Australia

Sleep troubles? Take action to get the rest your body needs

Sleep troubles? Take action to get the rest your body needs

NO SALESMAN NEEDED: Driva is a revolutionary new platform which allows car buyers to see the best personalised loan rates, based on their credit score, and gain pre-approval from more than 30 lenders.

Aussie entrepreneurs putting car buyers back in the Driva's seat

STUNNING: The tour will end in beautiful Coffs Harbour on the NSW North Coast. James Davis Photography / Shutterstock.com

Discover the beauty and wonders of Regional NSW

Time to get festive in the city!

Time to get festive in the city!

Where and how older people live is critical to their overall health

Where and how older people live is critical to their overall health

Westpac's National Agribusiness Manager, Stephen Hannan.

Helping generations of Australian farmers to grow

Stephen Hannan, National Agribusiness Manager

Under attack: As cyber crime incidences rise, more businesses are taking out insurance to protect from losses.

Cyber crime a growing business threat

Writing in a grand Russian tradition - Mikhail Iossel. Picture: Natalie Olivares

REVIEWWriting inside the Soviet Union

Roger Pulvers
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Andrew Leigh. Picture: Rohan Thomson.

What's on in the Canberra literary scene

A look at the success rates of IVF by age

A look at the success rates of IVF by age

Deborah Devis

Want to be the best grandparent you can?

Want to be the best grandparent you can?

Guests toast being aboard Coral Geographer. Photo: Jeurgen Freund

Cruising set to make comeback

Sue Preston

TRAILBLAZER: Bill Onus in Fitzroy (1946). Still from Ablaze. Photo: Eric Onus

Film a key to leader's hidden history

Rowan Cowley

Chronicle "Design a Tie" Competition.

PHOTOSFlashback Friday: Canberra Design Competition

Carlo, Aria, and Lyn Wallace of Watson.

PHOTOSThe circus is in town

Jacinta Evans of Turner, and Katelyn Durbin of Calwell.

PHOTOSThe pub trivia test

Dion Georgopoulos

Future Farmers Network director Samantha Noon.

Agriculture, the career of opportunity

Future Farmers Network director Samantha Noon.

Agriculture, the career of opportunity

Deputy Premier Paul Toole and NSW Agriculture Minister Adam Marshall inspected the Yeoval Doppler radar on Wednesday. Photo: Supplied

Construction of state's third Doppler radar stays on track

Deputy Premier Paul Toole and NSW Agriculture Minister Adam Marshall inspected the Yeoval Doppler radar on Wednesday. Photo: Supplied

Construction of state's third Doppler radar stays on track

Matt Notley and his fiance Sophie Smethurst helping with harvest at Beckom.

Govt workers take the wheel

Matt Notley and his fiance Sophie Smethurst helping with harvest at Beckom.

Govt workers take the wheel