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Fran Kelly and Patricia Karvelas, hosts of the Party Room, choose their winners and losers from the week in federal politics.
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As light rail works its way down Northbourne Avenue, the ACT Heritage Council is reminding Canberrans that rail was always part of the vision for the city.
Topics: history, urban-development-and-planning, human-interest, canberra-2600
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| UpdatedA 22-year-old woman dies after being seriously injured in a horse riding accident at Canberra's Thoroughbred Park on Tuesday.
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| UpdatedIn the wake of community outcry, the Catholic Church says it has now removed three former priests from a Catholic-run retirement home neighbouring two Canberra primary schools.
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The doctor who gave methadone to an inmate at Canberra's jail two days prior to his death tells an inquest that it is "very unusual and unlikely" to die from such a small dosage.
Topics: drug-use, health, drug-education, drugs-and-substance-abuse, prisons-and-punishment, law-crime-and-justice, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, black-deaths-in-custody, canberra-2600, act, australia
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Labor MP Linda Burney explains why she referred Human Services Minister Alan Tudge to the Australian Federal Police after confirmation his department gave a Centrelink client's personal information to a journalist.
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| UpdatedA 41-year-old Canberra man changes his plea over the death of another man at the Stuart Flats in Griffith last year.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, crime, griffith-2603, canberra-2600, act, australia
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Liberal senator Zed Seselja is accusing his Nationals colleagues of parochialism over their campaign to move public servants to regional Australia.
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Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull
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| UpdatedThe Federal Government says it will "not be very long" until it intervenes in a vitriolic sugar marketing dispute in Queensland if the parties involved cannot reach a solution.
Topics: sugar, agricultural-crops, rural, joyce-barnaby, canberra-2600, brisbane-4000
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| UpdatedA Canberra lawyer "motivated by greed" is given a three-year jail term for charging private fees of more than $25,000 in a Legal Aid case.
Topics: fraud-and-corporate-crime, corruption, law-crime-and-justice, canberra-2600, act, australia
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Canberra has just sweltered through the warmest summer on record for daytime temperatures, according the Bureau of Meteorology, experiencing 53 days above 30 degrees Celsius.
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| UpdatedThe founder of a group that advocates for and supports victims of sexual assault calls for Catholic Archbishop Christopher Prowse to resign over the relocation of a priest accused of inappropriate behaviour towards children.
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Nearly a quarter of Australian start-ups are founded outside of capital cities, according to a new report from Universities Australia and Startup Muster.
Topics: agribusiness, regional-development, wagga-wagga-2650, canberra-2600
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The Australian Signals Directorate was placed on diesel generators in early February because authorities were concerned about the reliability of the energy grid.
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| UpdatedInmates will receive a smaller drug dosage and have to wait longer to get it under changes to the methadone program at Canberra's prison.
Topics: drug-use, prisons-and-punishment, drugs-and-substance-abuse, law-crime-and-justice, hume-2620, canberra-2600, act, australia
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Western Sydney University Vice-Chancellor Barney Glover addresses the National Press Club in Canberra
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| UpdatedPolice in Canberra are looking to speak to a woman who allegedly assaulted a man for talking during a Valentines Day screening of the erotic drama Fifty Shades Darker.
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| UpdatedA special needs school in Canberra was not informed until recently a retired priest accused of inappropriate behaviour towards children was living nearby, the Catholic Church admits.
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| UpdatedPublic servants from the nation's chemical regulator are being forced to work from a local fast food restaurant in northern New South Wales, due to a lack of office space.
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| UpdatedRogue Federal Government backbencher George Christensen says he does not regret intervening in an agricultural dispute in Queensland, even though it cost him the position of National Party chief whip.
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Federal police say a man who blew up a van out the front of the Australian Christian Lobby building in Canberra last year was most likely trying to take his own life.
Topics: suicide, christianity, community-and-society, religion-and-beliefs, disasters-and-accidents, deakin-2600, canberra-2600, act, australia
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| UpdatedABC managing director Michelle Guthrie tells a Senate Estimates hearing she is confident the organisation did not breach its charter by cancelling its shortwave radio service.
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