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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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| UpdatedPolitical Editor Greg Jennett discusses the day in politics with Liberal MP Kelly O'Dwyer and Labor Senator Sam Dastyari and discusses Tony Abbott's drought trip with ABC Political journalist Anna Henderson.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, australia, canberra-2600
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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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The weather bureau has described as "fairly okay" the rainfall which swept across the region over the past four days.
Topics: drought, rainfall, orange-2800, canberra-2600, wollongong-2500
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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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| UpdatedInterest was muted as the first blocks of land at Tralee went up for sale on the NSW/ACT border.
Topics: industry, regional-development, urban-development-and-planning, housing-industry, housing, jerrabomberra-2619, canberra-2600
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| UpdatedA 27-year-old man has appeared in court charged with the murder of a Lyneham man in late December.
Topics: crime, murder-and-manslaughter, canberra-2600, lyneham-2602
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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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| UpdatedA Canberra punk musician has pleaded not guilty to the murder of popular local music fan Nicholas Sofer-Schreiber.
Watson man Christopher David Navin, 27, was arrested and charged on Friday after a seven-week murder investigation led police to a property in Grafton, in northern New South Wales.
Sofer-Schreiber, 27, was found dead in his Lyneham townhouse on December 28 after not being heard from since Boxing Day.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, music, canberra-2600, lyneham-2602, watson-2602, grafton-2460
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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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What were you doing when you were 17? Was it politics or football you were interested in? At this time of the week you were probably dreaming of the weekend, a cricket match, catching up with friends, perhaps doing some work on the family farm.
Topics: youth, rural-youth, canberra-2600
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Craig Zonca talks to Heywire winners
Topics: abc, rural-media, rural-youth, 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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Topics: rural, race-relations, community-and-society, rural-youth, youth, community-development, community-organisations, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, indigenous-culture, canberra-2600
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They come from as far as the Kimberley and Christmas Island, Chad and Afghanistan.
Topics: rural, rural-youth, community-and-society, youth, race-relations, canberra-2600
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Lucy Barbour finds out why racism and migration are big issues for young people living in the bush.
Topics: community-and-society, community-education, education, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, rural-youth, youth, indigenous-culture, rural, canberra-2600
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Topics: rural, rural-youth, youth, community-and-society, canberra-2600
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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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| UpdatedGoulburn gets 17mm of overnight rain but a much drier argument in Mudgee, Orange and Young.
Topics: rainfall, drought, rural, dubbo-2830, canberra-2600, orange-2800