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Welcome to another working week! I've got some very good news to start your day. We're in for a top of 20 degrees today ... that's right - a sunny top of 20 and you can expect much of the same for the rest of the week.
Grab that hot beverage, here's what's making news.
AMA calls for judicial inquiry into workplace culture of ACT Health
The peak body for doctors in the ACT has called for the territory equivalent of a royal commission into the workplace culture of Canberra's health system, citing a "litany of missteps, maladministration, bullying complaints" over the past year.
Australian Medical Association ACT president Dr Antonio Di Dio said the shock resignation of new Health Services boss Janet Anderson three days after she was announced in the job "spoke of an organisation that cannot go a month without something going wrong".
Katie Burgess has the story.
Why Lorraine refuses to have an asbestos management plan
The owner of a Mr Fluffy home who still lives in it and refuses to have an asbestos management plan says she is sick of paying for a problem she didn't create.
Lorraine Carvalho and her husband Leo own Mr Fluffy founder Dirk Jansen's former Lyons home - one of 21 houses that WorkSafe ACT says is non-compliant with legislation requiring an asbestos management plan.
Blake Foden explains why they don't have a plan.
How a dirty accountant washed millions for crime ring
After anxiously scanning the oversized luggage coming in on a conveyor belt for half an hour, the tall chubby Qantas maintenance worker snapped off his blue latex gloves and threw them into the bin in disgust.
It was Sunday afternoon on April 13, 2014, and unbeknown to Anthony Robert Parker, Australian Border Force investigators had already intercepted the piece of luggage he had been waiting for – a kite-surfing bag filled with almost 75 kilos of cocaine that had just come in on Qantas flight 28 from Chile.
Read more from Kate McClymont's investigation.
ACT lagging behind other states in NAPLAN, inquiry told
NSW and Victoria have quietly outperformed the ACT in NAPLAN testing over the past decade, according to a new analysis submitted to an ACT parliamentary inquiry.
While the ACT has long come out on top in state-by-state breakdowns over the test's 10-year history, a mathematician says such comparisons were not scientifically valid, given the overwhelmingly high level of socioeconomic advantage in Canberra.
A two-tier education sector, too much principal control and the ACT's break away from the NSW school system have all been blamed for poor NAPLAN results.
Sherryn Groch has the story.
Government gets ready to sell off part of the Royal Australian Mint
The federal government has been given the green light for its plans to sell off one of the heritage-listed buildings at the Mint this year, applying to change planning rules to allow a health centre and consulting rooms.
The National Capital Authority approved an application from the Department of Finance to rezone part of its block from national capital use to mixed use on block 5, section 65.
My story here.