Credit card skimming and phone scams – Hackett author Graeme Barrow and his wife Nora have found themselves on the wrong end of both dodgy practices. Photo: Rohan Thomson
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Hackett author Graeme Barrow has had more than $11,000 stolen on his credit card by thieves in the United States who apparently "skimmed" the details from a transaction he or his wife had made somewhere in Canberra.
The Commonwealth Bank has refused to quantify the number of recent reports of skimming in Canberra or even confirm that is what has happened.
- Messages of support from friends and family have poured in for the Canberra teenager who was critically injured in a skydiving accident on Saturday.
- Police say they have ruled out family members as persons of interest in the killing of Andrew Carville, whose body was found in Majura late last week.
- The ACT government has signalled wide-ranging changes to building regulations to stem the tide of complaints and disputes about defects in new residential buildings, especially apartments.
- The price of small blocks of land in Gungahlin skyrocketed by 141 per cent in just over five years, far outstripping the growth in house prices during the same period.
Sophie Broadhead and coach Dennis Goodwin celebrate her win in the women's Queanbeyan Gift. Photo: Melissa Adams
Raw emotion spilled over at Queanbeyan Park as Sophie Broadhead claimed the women's Gift title less than 24 hours after one of her training partners almost died in a freak skydiving accident.
Broadhead burst into tears as she crossed the line and was embraced by her family, coach and training squad as they came to grips with the accident near Goulburn.
- Canberra golfer Matt Millar "felt sick in the stomach" after he misfired in the last round of the Australian Masters and missed a golden chance to claim the biggest title of his career.
- Former Canberra Raiders chairman John McIntyre hopes re-signing Jack Wighton and Josh Papalii will be the catalyst for breaking the perception that the Green Machine can't recruit big-name players.
- Canberra Capitals officials will launch a full review of the basketball program after a horror start to the WNBL season, but insist coach Carrie Graf will "absolutely" stay in charge.
- Thee Canberra United stars had a perfect Sunday after Matildas call-ups and a win over Sydney FC. The trio includes 32-year-old Caitlin Munoz who was "very surprised" to get the chance to add to her 56 caps for Australia.
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The annual Design Canberra festival is on from 21 - 29 November. It's a celebration of all things design.
Enjoy a showcase of theatre, cabaret, music, spoken word and film at The Public Theatre, a pop-up outdoor theatre space in Civic Square until November 29. More info here.
Further afield, Trees + is an exhibition and celebration of the tree at the Bungendore Wood Works Gallery until December 6.
From left, Red Hill regenerator Paul Ratcliffe and Stirling Park volunteer co-ordinator, Peter McGhie.
Spring wild flowers are blooming across Stirling Park in vivid yellow on land long forgotten under a jungle of woody weeds.
Ecologists, Yarralumla residents, university students and Ngunnawal people are uncovering a grassy woodland full of threatened button wrinklewort, sticky everlasting and hoary sunray flowers, and Aboriginals' rich cultural past.
A stream once flowed from Capital Hill to the Molonglo River, which became a birthing place for women, a place for secret women's business, says Ngunnawal elder Wally Bell.
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Rally Against Racism Rally, in front of Parliament House in Canberra. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen
Anti-racism protesters were involved in fiery exchanges with Reclaim Australia supporters in front of Parliament House on Sunday afternoon, but the rally and counter-rally remained separate and peaceful.
Roughly 100 people from a range of different groups had gathered to form the counter-rally by about midday.
Monday: Sunny. Light winds becoming west to northwesterly 15 to 20 km/h in the middle of the day. Min 9, max 26.
Tuesday: Mostly sunny. Light winds becoming west to northwesterly 15 to 20 km/h in the afternoon. Min 8, max 26.
