We are set for another crisp, sunny day on Wednesday, although remember to wrap-up nice and warm in the morning. The forecast high is 16 degrees after an overnight low of 0 degrees.

Here are today's headlines.

An "unfair" chemotherapy co-payment levied on patients receiving public treatment for cancer has been scrapped.

Health Minister Meegan Fitzharris said the ACT government would instead pay the co-payment, expected to cost a combined $1 million per year.

Canberra Hospital chemotherapy patients can currently face out-of-pocket costs up to about $1500 a year.

Daniella White has all the details on the announcement. 

A 24-year-old Andrew Barr staffer has become the second Labor member to toss their hat into the ring for the seat of Canberra at the next federal election.

Jacob Ingram announced that he would run to represent Labor in the seat at a meeting of the Mt Ainslie branch of the party on Tuesday night.

ACT Labor is set for contested preselections on two fronts, with former ACT senator Katy Gallagher indicating that she will seek to return to the role now filled by David Smith, who also intends to run for the top of the Senate ticket.

Sally Whyte reports. 

Chief Minister Andrew Barr has justified approving the former Land Development Agency's $7 million purchase of Milapuru on the grounds the government will get at least $100 million from residential sales of the land.

Mr Barr approved the LDA's purchase of the land in June 2015, despite the deal not meeting the agency's own land acquisition test, and the purchase price exceeding a key valuation of the property by $3 million.

An audit of a series of the former LDA's rural land acquisitions found the purchase ultimately led to a loss of $3.3 million for the agency in 2015-16, including stamp duty and costs associated with the acquisition.

Daniel Burdon reports. 

Patricia Highsmith was an extremely difficult woman to pin down, according to director Jordan Best.

"Some people say she was wonderful, supportive and kind; other people say she was Satan," Best said.

Highsmith, whose books included The Talented Mr Ripley, is one of the two characters in Joanna Murray-Smith's Switzerland.

Best is directing the thriller for Canberra's Pigeonhole Theatre as part of the Canberra Theatre Centre's 2018 season.

Ron Cerabona has the story.

The Australian Electoral Commission has confirmed that the ACT's new federal electorate will be named Bean, after war historian Charles Bean.

The commission had received dozens of objections to the electorate bearing the name, due to anti-semitic comments Bean made about General John Monash during World War I.

In its determination, the commission said the decision was made "following extensive deliberations".

Sally Whyte has the story.