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Only one more day to go until you can snuggle up indoors and stay warm over the weekend.
Unfortunately, there is a 95 per cent chance of showers on Friday, likely to come in the late morning or early afternoon. There is a forecast high of 15 degrees today after an overnight low of 8 degrees.
Here are the day's headlines.
New NGA director says courage is key
Bigger audiences, more exhibitions, maybe even another work to match the controversy of Blue Poles?
He’s only three days into the job, but Nick Mitzevich already has bold plans for the National Gallery of Australia.
“You have to be bold, because the reason that this art collection is so good is that the people before me were courageous,” he said.
Colliers brush off conflict of interest concerns
The head of Colliers ACT says the firm had "absolutely no conflict of interest" over almost $300,000 worth of work it did for the former Land Development Agency.
An audit into the now-defunct agency's rural land purchases across Canberra's western fringe found the arrangement between the prominent real estate firm and the agency lacked "transparency and accountability".
The audit office also found the agency's former chief executive, David Dawes, never told the agency's board the District of Stromlo acquisitions strategy paper was completed by the firm, unsolicited and free of charge.
Latest Centrelink computer fail
The government's new childcare subsidy system has become the latest technology debacle, with both families and childcare providers struggling to access the system.
On Thursday childcare providers were told to try to access the portal through the Department of Education and Training website "in a couple of hours".
The warning was removed later in the day.
Neighbourhood graffiti you won't mind seeing
Messages scrawled on a footpath in Kambah have put a smile on the face of at least one passerby.
Children in O'Halloran Circuit, Kambah wrote some feelgood messages on the footpath on Wednesday night and by Thursday a neighbour was ringing The Canberra Times to say how much they appreciated them.
The messages included "I hope u had a good day today'' and the encouraging "don't stop running, joging [sic] or walking'' and "You can do it!''.