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A worker at Monash Medical Centre retrieves vials of the Pfizer vaccine from the freezer on Wednesday.

Ineligible people receive Pfizer vaccine in Canberra after ‘unauthorised’ text

The ACT Health Minister accused those who received the vaccine of skipping the queue after a booking hotline for frontline workers was widely distributed.

  • Rob Harris

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ACT Chief Minister Andrew Barr and Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk.

Simple form made big difference for Queensland easing border restrictions

Queensland will soon let ACT residents travel to Queensland, after a simple change to screening meant health authorities were comfortable with lifting restrictions.

  • Stuart Layt
Firefighters outside the ACT Legislative Assembly, where they spoke to politicians this week about the industrial action they are taking against ACT Fire and Rescue.

Firies' overtime 'increased dramatically' despite plan to reduce it

ACT Fire and Rescue described its own spending on overtime as "unsustainable", but since putting a plan in place to reduce it, the annual bill has risen.

  • Blake Foden
Canberra's location is part of its problem with high fuel prices, according to retailers and suppliers.

Location, location, location: Canberra's site part of petrol problem

Canberra's inland setting means its residents are missing out on more than the benefits of living by the beach, according to fuel suppliers and retailers.

  • Blake Foden
A new-look ACT government rates assessment notice, issued last year, which displayed the full year's bill in a box labelled "PLEASE PAY NOW".

ACT government works to re-design 'confusing' rates assessment notices

New-look rates notices issued last year made it appear as though the full year's bill had to be paid at once, rather than in instalments.

  • Blake Foden
Cat containment is being expanded into Whitlam in the Molonglo Valley.

Government decides 'It's Time' for cat containment in Whitlam

The new suburb will now be the 17th area in Canberra to have cat-containment laws.

  • Andrew Brown
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Melbourne met Sydney in Canberra in 2009 - the season in question.

ACT taxpayer dollars went into hosting 'tanking' Melbourne

The Demons were perilously close to their planned limit of four wins for the 2009 season when they arrived in Canberra.

  • Caden Helmers
ACT Supreme Court chief justice Terence Higgins was to be the ACT's integrity commissioner.

Barr slams delay to integrity commissioner search

The Chief Minister said the political associations of former chief justice should not have disqualified him from the role.

  • Andrew Brown
Vicki Dunne said the binding directive from the minister is unprecedented and undermines the role of independent committees.

'Unprecedented': Some evidence in school violence inquiry to be sealed

The opposition says the condition is a dangerous imposition on a committee already equipped to protect witnesses and undermines the democratic process.

  • Sherryn Groch
Clubs will have to chip in thousands of dollars per month to a new diversification fund.

Clubs to chip in thousands of dollars to new diversification fund

The fund was a recommendation on how to reduce the Canberra industry's reliance on poker machine revenue.

  • Katie Burgess

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