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| UpdatedA three-quarters of a tonne quartz rock has been stolen from the National Rock Garden in Canberra.
Topics: police, act, canberra-2600, bendigo-3550
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| UpdatedThree men who went missing in a cave at a national park on the New South Wales Southern Tablelands have been rescued.
Topics: emergency-incidents, goulburn-2580, nsw, act, canberra-2600
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| UpdatedInvestigators say a gas leak may have caused an explosion before a large blaze in the historic Sydney building in Canberra's CBD.
Topics: industrial-fires, emergency-incidents, act, canberra-2600
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ACT police are investigating two suspicious fires in a caravan and unit over the weekend.
Topics: emergency-incidents, act, canberra-2600, fyshwick-2609, belconnen-2617
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| UpdatedOne of the oldest buildings in Canberra has been significantly damaged by a large fire in Civic.
Topics: canberra-2600, act
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| UpdatedBrisbane Roar have beaten Canberra United 2-1 to earn a place in the W-League grand final.
Topics: soccer, sport, canberra-2600, act, australia
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Brisbane Roar celebrate after scoring the winning goal during the W-League Semi Final match between Canberra United and the Brisbane Roar at McKellar Park on February 15, 2014 in Canberra, Australia.
Topics: soccer, sport, canberra-2600, act, australia
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| UpdatedACT households can expert electricity prices to rise from July. It is likely the average power bill will increase by 23 dollars a year.
Topics: industry, electricity-energy-and-utilities, act, canberra-2600
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| UpdatedACT Police have had breakthroughs in their investigations into the two most recent murders in Canberra.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, murder-and-manslaughter, act, canberra-2600
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| UpdatedA Queanbeyan man has been fined $750 for knocking a man unconscious with a single punch after he caught him talking to his girlfriend at the pub.
Topics: assault, act, canberra-2600
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| UpdatedACT police have had breakthroughs in their investigations into two Canberra murders, closing in on suspects.
Police have arrested a man for the Lyneham murder of Nicholas Sofer-Schreiber.
And they've identified their main suspect in the death of 71-year-old Miodrag Gajic at Phillip.
Topics: crime, murder-and-manslaughter, law-crime-and-justice, act, canberra-2600
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| UpdatedPolitical Correspondent Greg Jennett has the latest from Capital Hill including what the Government's going to do with Qantas, Australia's new Consul-General to New York and Fiona Nash denies her chief of staff doesn't have a conflict of interest. Plus the week in politics with Hawker Britton's Simon Banks and Executive Counsel's Jannette Cotterell.
Topics: government-and-politics, canberra-2600, australia, act
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| UpdatedThe ACT's Independent Competition and Regulatory Commission has recommended a modest increase of 1.2 per cent to electricity prices for households.
But the Commission has also predicted a 12 per cent fall to power prices if the carbon price was removed by the Federal Government.
Topics: electricity-energy-and-utilities, states-and-territories, canberra-2600, act
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| UpdatedA study involving the ANU has found putting offenders face-to-face with their victims can reduce future crime levels.
Topics: crime-prevention, courts-and-trials, australian-national-university-0200, act
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| UpdatedSecurity vision at the Tourist Hotel on Monaro Street in March, 2013, shows Timothy John Ackland knocking a man unconscious.
Topics: assault, queanbeyan-2620, act, canberra-2600
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| UpdatedMeerkats are putting paws to paint at Canberra's National Zoo and Aquarium, to raise funds for conservation efforts.
Topics: conservation, zoos, contemporary-art, act, canberra-2600
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| UpdatedThe current and former Federal Governments are locked in a furious debate about who is to blame for climbing unemployment.
Topics: parliament, federal-parliament, unemployment, act, canberra-2600
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| UpdatedAn ACT trial allowing friends and relatives of drug users to administer overdose reversal medication has been hailed a live-saving success.
Topics: drugs-and-substance-abuse, health, act, canberra-2600
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| UpdatedThe National Gallery of Australia is suing a New York-based art dealer after an Indian statue it purchased was found to have been stolen from a temple.
Topics: library-museum-and-gallery, crime-prevention, act, canberra-2600
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| UpdatedPaintings by meerkats from Canberra's National Zoo and Aquarium will be offered for sale to raise funds for wildlife conservation.
Topics: conservation, animals, zoos, act, canberra-2600
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| UpdatedPolitical Correspondent Greg Jennett presents Capital Hill from Parliament House including Qantas's future, jobs and SPC Ardmona's bail out from the Victorian Government.
Topics: government-and-politics, canberra-2600, act
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| UpdatedThe ACT's unemployment rate has fallen, despite concern over the impact of public service job cuts in Canberra.
The Bureau of Statistics (ABS) says the ACT's unemployment rate fell to 3.8 per cent in January.
The figure for December was revised down from 4 per cent to 3.9 per cent.
Topics: unemployment, business-economics-and-finance, act, canberra-2600
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| UpdatedFederal MP Clive Palmer discusses politics and the recent WA Senate result at the National Press Club in Canberra.
Topics: parliament, federal-parliament, electoral-system, canberra-2600, act, parliament-house-2600
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| UpdatedA program which allows friends and relatives of drug users to administer treatment to reverse overdoses has almost certainly saved lives according to the ACT Government.
Topics: drugs-and-substance-abuse, states-and-territories, canberra-2600, act
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| UpdatedAn an art fraud expert has criticised the National Gallery of Australia as it begins legal action against an art dealer accused of selling stolen works.
Topics: library-museum-and-gallery, courts-and-trials, art-history, canberra-2600, act, united-states, india