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Workers demolish a Mr Fluffy home in Farrer in 2014. Picture: Rohan Thomson

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'We must be eternally vigilant': Call for Fluffy board of inquiry

Kirsten Lawson

Kevin and Vanessa Lindley among the ruins of their Carwoola home which was destroyed in the 2017 bushfire. They recently joined a class action for compensation. Picture: Sitthixay Ditthavong

Carwoola bushfire class action given 'green light'

Elliot Williams

Prime Minister Scott Morrison during a meeting at the Commonwealth Parliament Offices in May. Picture: AAP

OPINION
Courting the 'quiet Australians' from the heart of the 'Canberra bubble'

Michelle Grattan

Among the dozens of concerned families at the school are (from left) Bridie Woolnough with sons Toby and Harry, Daniel and April Witteveen with sons Henry and Angus, and Graham Wright with daughter Emma. Picture: Sitthixay Ditthavong

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'It's like a cult': Inside Canberra private school's 'culture of fear'

Sherryn Groch

Former prime minister Kevin Rudd after his address to the National Press Club on Friday. Picture: Alex Ellinghausen

Rudd slams 'post-pubescent' Liberal politicians over China 'hysteria'

Dana McCauley

Prime Minister Scott Morrison lays out his vision for the Australian Public Service at Monday's event hosted by the Institute of Public Administration. Picture: Jamila Toderas

OPINION
How the APS can properly serve Scott Morrison's 'quiet Australians'

Crispin Hull

Energy Minister and Liberal MP Angus Taylor. Picture: Alex Ellinghausen

Lack of uniform laws bad for grasslands

Finbar O'Mallon

John Howard says Scott Morrison has done an amazing job as prime minister and has unified the party.

Howard hails Morrison's 'amazing' success

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Access Canberra takes action against Geocon over 'misleading' marketing

Suzanne Orr announced as ACT's new minister

Basketball ACT staff forced to undergo racism training

Twitter suspends Hanson for violating rules against abuse and harassment

Workers demolish a Mr Fluffy home in Farrer in 2014. Picture: Rohan Thomson

ANALYSIS
'We must be eternally vigilant': Call for Fluffy board of inquiry

The scoreboard shows the England total for their 1st inning of 67 all out during play on the second day of the third Ashes Test. Picture: AP

Ashes series turned on its head in the space of two hours

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The Niagara Cafe in Gundagai, NSW, is up for sale for the second time in a century. Picture: Neil Newitt

Iconic Gundagai cafe, with a menu fit for a PM, up for sale

In an ideal world, Todd Carney would have been a Raider for life. Picture: James Brickwood

Todd Carney faces the Hard Truth

Canberrans got out and about by the banks of Lake Burley Griffin on Friday to enjoy the sunshine and warmer weather. Temperatures are expected to stick around 15 degrees all week. Picture: Dion Georgopoulos

Winter winds down in the ACT

The Canberra Times' editorial cartoon for Saturday August 24, 2019. Topics: Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, Amazon rainforest, climate change, fires, arson, deforestation, global warming.

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David Pope's view: Bolsonaro Country, where the world clears its lungs

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Kashmir protesters, security forces clash

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Epstein investigation opened in France

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Ashes series turned on its head in the space of two hours

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Macron in G7 push for biodiversity charter

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Howard hails Morrison's 'amazing' success

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First stage of Manus naval base opens

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Former prime minister Kevin Rudd after his address to the National Press Club on Friday. Picture: Alex Ellinghausen

Rudd slams 'post-pubescent' Liberal politicians over China 'hysteria'

ACCC chairman Rod Sims. Picture: Brook Mitchell

Households feel pinch as petrol prices hit five-year high

Scott Morrison has kept up the kind of frenetic pace of travel that would put Kevin Rudd to shame.

PM's world travels boost him to new stage

Former deputy prime minister Tim Fischer's Top 10 tip for surviving parliament have been revealed.

Tim Fischer's top 10 tips for new MPs

Senator Rex Patrick speaks during the tax debate in the Senate at Parliament House in Canberra on July 4, 2019. fedpol Photo: Dominic Lorrimer

Crossbench senator says companies who breach lobbying code should be cut off

Katie Burgess

Prime Minister Scott Morrison lays out his vision for the Australian Public Service at Monday's event hosted by the Institute of Public Administration. Picture: Jamila Toderas

OPINION
How the APS can properly serve Scott Morrison's 'quiet Australians'

Crispin Hull

Anote Tong, the former president of Kiribati, at Parliament House on Thursday. Picture: Jamila Toderas

Australia acting like an 'abusive relative' in the Pacific

Scott Hannaford

One Nation leader Senator Pauline Hanson has been suspended from Twitter. Picture: Alex Ellinghausen

Twitter suspends Hanson for violating rules against abuse and harassment

Kirsten Lawson

A coal ship being loaded for export at Bunbury Port Inner Harbour. Picture: Aaron Bunch/Fairfax Media

OPINION
Australia can no longer dodge responsibility for its fossil fuel exports

Richie Merzian

Politicians are to blame for our energy worries

Politicians are to blame for our energy worries

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Prime Minister Scott Morrison lays out his vision for the Australian Public Service at Monday's event hosted by the Institute of Public Administration. Picture: Jamila Toderas

OPINION
How the APS can properly serve Scott Morrison's 'quiet Australians'

Crispin Hull

Jarrad West plays John Wilkes Booth, who shot US president Abraham Lincoln, in Assassins. Picture: Eva Schroeder

Assassins: Changing the world with a finger

Ron Cerabona

Robert Riggs, Teapot, 2019 at Light in a Dark Place at Strathnairn. Picture: Supplied

A blonde, Belfast Girls, a bug and the Bard

Ron Cerabona

Powderfinger (left to right): Darren Middleton (guitars/vocals); Jon Coghill (drums); Ian Haug (guitars); Bernard Fanning (vocals/guitars) and John Collins (bass).

Powderfinger tribute at NFSA in Canberra

Jarrad West plays John Wilkes Booth, who shot US president Abraham Lincoln, in Assassins. Picture: Eva Schroeder

Assassins: Changing the world with a finger

Kites at the National Arboretum.

Let's go fly a kite - at the arboretum

Learn all about alpacas in Canberra this weekend.

Keen to try an alpaca sausage roll? Now's your chance

Megan Doherty

The scoreboard shows the England total for their 1st inning of 67 all out during play on the second day of the third Ashes Test. Picture: AP

Ashes series turned on its head in the space of two hours

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Christian Lealiifano at the Wallabies' World Cup announcement on Friday. Picture: Rugby AU Media/Stuart Walmsley

Why Christian Lealiifano almost chased a Samoan World Cup dream

Richie Allan with his son Richard, who has been a victim of racist abuse at basketball. Picture: Dion Georgopoulos

Basketball ACT staff forced to undergo racism training

David Pocock is on the verge of a comeback. Picture: AAP

Pocock finds the silver lining to an injury nightmare

In an ideal world, Todd Carney would have been a Raider for life. Picture: James Brickwood

Todd Carney faces the Hard Truth

Caden Helmers

Goulburn Bulldogs winger Steve Cummins has set the Canberra Raiders Cup alight.

Meet the flying Crookwell farmer

Caden Helmers

The Wallabies World Cup squad announcement. Picture: Edwina Pickles.

How every Wallabies player found out they had made World Cup squad

Tom Decent

Happy Clapper will race in the Winx Stakes. Picture: AAP

Happy Clapper the next crown jewel of Royal Randwick

Lucie Bertoldo

Sun salutation: Greeting the morning at JWLand's latest new release at the Founders Lane development, appropriately called Dawn.

Inner city apartment living lures Canberrans with focus on lifestyle and community

Finding the missing millions: Many people infected with Hepatitis B and C in Australia aren't even aware they have the virus.

World Hepatitis Day - Australians are still missing out on care

We may not have been back to the moon since 1969 but the advanced technology of today would certainly have to make for a smoother landing.

Could your mobile phone take you to the moon and back?

COLOURED WORLD: Sunset at Nyhavn pier in Copenhagen's Old Town. While in Copenhagen you will also be enchanted by the Little Mermaid statue by Edvard Eriksen.

Cruise and tour Scandinavia and the Baltic

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Read online: First Home Buyers

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Jet Blast Plumbing provides Canberra with a 24 hour service, seven days a week. Tony offers a quick response and no call-out fee. Photo: Supplied.

You get a quick-response promise from Jet Blast Plumbing

Australia's largest assistive technology and disability event, the ATSA Independent Living Expo, will take place in Canberra at the National Convention Centre on Tuesday, August 27 and Wednesday, August 28. The expo has become the most influential event on the disability calendar.

Australia's largest disability expo opens in Canberra next week

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John Howard says Scott Morrison has done an amazing job as prime minister and has unified the party.

Howard hails Morrison's 'amazing' success

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Defence Minister Linda Reynolds has opened stage one of an expanded naval base on Manus Island.

First stage of Manus naval base opens

Scott Morrison and wife Jenny have finished up their Vietnam visit and are bound for France.

Scott Morrison leaves Vietnam for France

Former NSW magistrate Graeme Curran has been jailed for indecently assaulting an underage boy.

Former Sydney magistrate jailed for abuse

A train breakdown at Sydney's Town Hall station caused a day of chaos for commuters.

Syd Trains open to compensation for delays

Heather McNab

Supporters and opponents of voluntary assisted dying have made their cases to a committee.

Nitschke addresses Qld euthanasia probe

Nicholas McElroy

A political analyst says the Queensland government has effective 'permission' to dump Jackie Trad.

Qld Labor has 'permission' to turn on Trad

Tracey Ferrier and Nicholas McElroy

The first anniversary Scott Morrison's victory is nothing to celebrate, Anthony Albanese says.

Morrison's year nothing to celebrate: ALP

Paul Osborne

Stone-throwing protesters in Kashmir's main city Srinagar have clashed with paramilitary police.

Kashmir protesters, security forces clash

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Stone-throwing protesters in Kashmir's main city Srinagar have clashed with paramilitary police.

Kashmir protesters, security forces clash

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Jeffrey Epstein's apartment building in Paris is in the 16th district near the Arc de Triomphe.

Epstein investigation opened in France

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Jeffrey Epstein's apartment building in Paris is in the 16th district near the Arc de Triomphe.

Epstein investigation opened in France

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French President Emmanuel Macron wants the US to sign a charter on protecting biodiversity.

Macron in G7 push for biodiversity charter

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French President Emmanuel Macron wants the US to sign a charter on protecting biodiversity.

Macron in G7 push for biodiversity charter

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Cows brave a recent snowfall near Adaminaby, thankfully not as heavy as blizzards in 1834 which left cattle near Kiandra stranded and starving, their bones found many years later in the tops of snowgums. Picture: Mark Thomas, www.snowy-monaro-photography.com

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The day it snowed so much cow skeletons were found in trees

Tim the Yowie Man
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Pilgrims between Hornillos del Camino and Hontanas in the Burgos province of Spain. Picture: Alamy

Be prepared for the stride of your life as a Camino pilgrim

Alison Stewart

Anna Sorokin, also known as Anna Delvey, in court. Picture: AP/ Richard Drew

Profits of trust when you're conned by a fake heiress

David Ferrell

Cows brave a recent snowfall near Adaminaby, thankfully not as heavy as blizzards in 1834 which left cattle near Kiandra stranded and starving, their bones found many years later in the tops of snowgums. Picture: Mark Thomas, www.snowy-monaro-photography.com

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The day it snowed so much cow skeletons were found in trees

Tim the Yowie Man
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Pilgrims between Hornillos del Camino and Hontanas in the Burgos province of Spain. Picture: Alamy

Be prepared for the stride of your life as a Camino pilgrim

Alison Stewart

The Royal Academy of Arts in upmarket Mayfair district. Burlington House.

Giving Mayfair a fair old go

Ben Groundwater

Building Bridges to Boorowa volunteer Dick Orchard takes a break from tree planting. Photo: Andrew Scott

Tree change: How one Orchard and an army of volunteers can make a difference

Geraldine Cardozo

Kookaburras to Mr Whippy. What does Australia sound like to you?

Kookaburras to Mr Whippy. What does Australia sound like to you?

Older Australians are among at-risk groups for sepsis.

It kills 5000 Aussies a year, but do you know the sepsis warning signs?

Eileen Wood

Carol Hayes of Condor, Drill Hall Gallery director Terence Maloon of Acton and tanka poet Noriko Tanaka of Japan.

Savanhdary Vongpoothorn, All That Arises

King Derek Nimmo, clutching the key to the city, addresses the crowd with a humorous speech that touched television announcer Frank Jones. (13/3/79)

Flashback Friday: King of the capital

Alwyn Doolan, who spent a year walking 8500 km from Cape York to Canberra.
Picture by Sitthixay Ditthavong @wakeupsitt

Instagrammers of Canberra

Top priced bull KO B074 Beast Mode P48 with Craig Allen and Felix Li, Tea Gardens, Nerong Park, Angus Onisforou, K.O. Angus, Elders auctioneers Joe Wilks and Andy McGeoch and Tim Lord, K.O. Angus.

K.O. Angus bulls top at $12,000

Top priced bull KO B074 Beast Mode P48 with Craig Allen and Felix Li, Tea Gardens, Nerong Park, Angus Onisforou, K.O. Angus, Elders auctioneers Joe Wilks and Andy McGeoch and Tim Lord, K.O. Angus.

K.O. Angus bulls top at $12,000

The Wodonga Special Store Sale saw 2300, mostly light cattle, yarded. Photo supplied.

Heavy steers sell to $1440 at Wodonga

The Wodonga Special Store Sale saw 2300, mostly light cattle, yarded. Photo supplied.

Heavy steers sell to $1440 at Wodonga

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The Land vies for top media gong

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The Land vies for top media gong