"Streakers along Northbourne Avenue probably would have felt as cold as minus nine degrees yesterday, according to the official word from the Bureau of Meteorology.

"Not that there were any streakers (at least none were reported), but a spokesman for the bureau said if one accounted for the effects of the wind 'on exposed flesh' temperatures in the national capital would have seemed much lower than the recorded minimum of three degrees, let alone the maximum of seven.

"Staff at the bureau calculate the 'wind chill' in a complicated exercise which accounts for the recorded temperature and the prevailing wind strength, multiplied by a fraction known as the wind chill factor.

"Most areas in the ACT recorded winds of between 16 and 24km/h, but gusts of up to 32km/h were Fix this textrecorded at Canberra airport during the afternoon."

Meanwhile, the Times reported that Stephen Darcy Rix, an assistant research officer in the Department of Trade and a communist, successfully appealed an adverse security assessment made by ASIO.

Mr Rix was selling the Communist newspaper, Tribune, which published the news that the party was found not to be a "subversive organisation".

See: trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/page/14527718