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Retired Wallaby Andrew Walker puts his hand up to come out of retirement to play for the injury-hit Brumbies if they want him.

Dementia is set to cost Australia an estimated $18 billion a year by 2025, as Alzheimer's Australia calls for a national strategy to combat the disease.

Ongoing job cuts in Airservices Australia leave the network at "breaking point" and senior managers express fears the new regime is "a huge risk to public safety", an ABC investigation reveals.

A RSL club faces an extraordinary attack from Bec Cody over toilet wall tiles which depict Indigenous men — criticism the club says is "ridiculous" and "out of order".

Photos of Berlin from the early 1990s document a space created by stateless workers where the wall once stood.

The Federal Opposition is drafting Murray-Darling Basin Plan amendments, to guarantee delivery an extra 450 gigalitres of water for the environment.

Following the Bourke Street tragedy, the Canberra Liberals warn the ACT should also urgently rethink its approach to granting bail.

Farmers want to rein in electricity prices, saying their supply has become more unreliable as it has become more expensive.

Canberra filmmaker Cecilia Rumore wins the 2017 Tropfest People's Choice Award for her short documentary about a 91-year-old Holocaust survivor.

This year's Anzac rugby league Test between Australia and New Zealand will be held in Canberra — and it is hoped new direct flights between the ACT and Wellington will mean bumper crowd figures for the game.

Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce and a string of federal Nationals MPs are criticising the West Australian Liberals preference deal with One Nation — warning the agreement could cost them power in the state election.

When you think of Canberra, it's unlikely the ocean springs to mind.

The New South Wales Rural Fire Service says today's extreme weather conditions have never been seen before, and fears the situation could trigger uncontrollable, deadly bushfires.

Almost anywhere you go in Canberra you will see cranes dotting the skyline, building the city's next hulking apartment towers. But is an oversupply likely, and is that a bad thing?

People who live in bushland areas with catastrophic fire conditions are told to leave their homes, as the NSW RFS issues emergency warnings for fires at Leadville near Dunedoo and Lower Pappinbarra, 50km west of Port Macquarie.

New South Wales, Queensland and the ACT swelter in a heatwave, while southern Western Australia braced for more rain and flooding.

A woman and a man are shot in Gordon home in Canberra's south overnight, after two men entered the home about 9:30pm.

There are no signs of heat relief for Canberrans, with the temperature hitting 41 degrees Celsius for the second time in as many days, as ActewAGL reminds residents to monitor power usage to ease pressure on the grid.

Much of Australia is enduring an extreme heatwave, with temperatures exceeding 45C in parts of the country, and conditions are expected to worsen across the weekend.

There is an entire corner dedicated to One Nation senator Pauline Hanson's image at this year's Bald Archy Prize show — the satirical art prize that every year showcases an ever-revolving array of faces and stories to lampoon.

The "Bald Archies", an art show aimed at poking fun at politicians and those in the public eye, is back on show in Canberra for 2017.

Ian Burrell is the proud owner of more than 100 kites — including a whale that stretches up to 16 metres in size.

Malcolm Turnbull's blistering take-down of Bill Shorten has won him favour in his colleagues' eyes, but he needs to tread carefully to capitalise on it, Andrew Probyn writes.

More than 200 animals have been rescued from a north Canberra property, while some had to be euthanased, the RSPCA says.

Fran Kelly and Patricia Karvelas, hosts of the Party Room, choose their winners and losers from the week in federal politics.