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Yes, that's more frost outside the window. The mercury will plunge to minus 4 degrees today before reaching a top of 12.
Why not stay warm in bed a little longer with today's main headlines?
STATE OF ORIGIN
Well it's a long-awaited victory for Blues fans as NSW finally triumphed over the Maroons in last night's second State of Origin clash for the year.
Turns out that was all Freddy's fighters needed - after a decade of disappointment for the side, NSW coach Brad Fittler is a State of Origin series winning coach at his first try.
Get the run down on the big win here.
Toxic foams still on ACT fire trucks
Toxic foams linked to contamination at three ACT sites are still being carried on fire trucks more than a decade after they were officially phased out.
Emergency Services Commissioner Dominic Lane said a small number of PFAS extinguishers still existed within ACT Fire and Rescue, and a far greater number likely existed in petrol stations and apartments throughout the territory.
“[It] took longer than we anticipated, but they are being progressively removed," he said.
Steve Trask has the full story here.
Commission ‘should look back to 1989’
Does anyone remember what the newly minted ACT government was up to in 1989?
Chief Minister Andrew Barr says if there is to be an anti-corruption commission in the territory, then its first administration should not be immune from scruntiny.
He wants the proposed powers of the commission to be far-reaching, though the government has now pushed back the idea until 2019.
Daniel Burdon has more.
Four sisters who fled Burmese army now thriving in Canberra
They spent the first six years of their lives running and hiding from soldiers in the jungles of Myanmar. Then it was another fifteen in a refugee camp over the Thai border.
Now the four Blu sisters are building new lives in Canberra.
I sat down with the sisters to hear their story, as extra funding from the ACT government hits local refugee employment services.
City renewal in good hands
The designers behind successful urban renewals in Adelaide, Sydney and Wellington have been called in to work on a new arts and cultural precinct in Civic.
International design practice Warren and Mahoney is teaming up with urban planners and designers Oxigen, to deliver plans for the new precinct, which will bring life to the underused Civic Square and its surrounds.
Sally Pryor has the details.