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Freeze ignored? PS still recruiting

Federal bureaucracy is still recruiting and retrenching workers, despite Coalition's pledge.

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ACT 'one big mortgage belt'

Economists say Canberra will have to rely on its housing market as public service job cuts bite.

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Same-sex bill wording 'risk'

ACT's same-sex marriage laws could lose High Court test, experts say.

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NSW braces as forecast worsens

6 minutes ago Firefighters battling worst NSW fire disaster in half a century.

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11,000 Canberrans' email down

Thousands of Grapevine customers have been without proper functioning email since Tuesday.

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Factions have 'too much power'

47 minutes ago Former ACT chief minister Jon Stanhope says factions still hold back the ALP .

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Chopper boasts about murders

19 minutes ago ''Chopper'' confessed to killing four people in his last interview.

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Trust in politicans at 'record lows'

An hour ago Trust in government and the nation's politicians is falling dramatically, a major research project ...

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Majority want sport to phase out booze ads

A third of Australians believe the ties between major sporting codes and alcohol companies have ...

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Big traffic changes proposed for Civic

City Hill would become the "heart'' of a pedestrian-friendly Civic under a proposed Canberra City Plan.

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Gang-gang: Canberra goes all intimate There is an extreme rarity about Jess Cochrane's joyful photograph Sophie.
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Drawing inspiration for the centenary Canberra 100, commissioned by The Canberra Times, is a fossicker’s delight.
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Big traffic changes proposed for Civic