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There'll be a sunny morning today but there's a 50 per cent chance of rain this afternoon, on an otherwise mild-for-the-ACT-winter day with a 3 degree low and a maximum of 16 degrees. Next week it's meant to drop to minus 4, so there are some doses of chill left before spring.
What's making news this morning?
Smith's tilt at Bean as Brodtmann bows out
The ACT's new Labor senator David Smith vowed to run for Senate preselection after he replaced Katy Gallagher as she was booted over her dual citizenship.
When Canberra Labor MP Gai Brodtmann announced on Monday she wouldn't run in the next election, the whole landscape changed yet again in what is shaping up a topsy-turvy kind of political musical chairs.
Senator Smith, who was preparing for battle with Ms Gallagher, will now run for Labor preselection in the seat of Bean following Ms Brodtmann's decision to quit politics for personal reasons.
Leigh moves to repeal euthanasia vote ban
They have opposite views on voluntary euthanasia but will unite to try overturning restrictions on the ACT and Northern Territory that prevent the territories legalising assisted suicide.
Andrew Leigh represents the ACT seat of Fenner, and Luke Gosling holds the Northern Territory seat of Solomon. Mr Gosling is against euthanasia, while Mr Leigh supports it.
However they'll co-sponsor a private members bill to repeal the ban on the territories making laws on euthanasia.
Katie Burgess looks at the joint bid for the reform.
'Get the culture right, and women will join'
More than 30 years ago, she appeared in a video about women in science after joining the CSIRO in her late 20s. Cathy Foley, who has advocated for more to join the sector since, has become the federal scientific agency's latest chief scientist.
Chief among her priorities in the job will be to coordinate Australia's fragmented scientific institutions more. She also wants the nation's scientists to compete globally, and collaborate locally.
ACT committee to examine bus changes after petition
An ACT Legislative Committee will put the microscope to changes overhauling Canberra's bus network that could disadvantage people with limited mobility.
But Transport Minister Meegan Fitzharris has hit back at claims the consultation was not genuine.
Robert Mair and Sue Brudenall said their fellow Goodwin Retirement Village Crace residents are furious there will be no direct bus from their suburb to the Belconnen town centre under the proposed network. At the moment, a half-hourly bus on weekdays and an hourly bus on weekends connects elderly residents to the centre.
Cat containment spreads across Canberra suburbs
Domestic Animal Services has expanded its cat holding facilities as the government extends the ban on roaming felines in certain suburbs.
The Gungahlin town centre is poised to be declared a cat containment area, covering a large area near its central shopping centre.
The newly created suburbs of Macnamara and Strathnairn in west Belconnen will also be containment zones, joining 12 other Canberra suburbs, mostly in Weston Creek and Gungahlin, where owners must keep their cats locked up.
Andrew Brown brings you this curious tale.