THE Governor-General, David Hurley, and his wife will visit Vietnam next week in recognition of the 50th anniversary of bilateral relations between the two countries.
Two homes in the suburbs of Ngunnawal and Fisher were burgled while the residents slept early on Wednesday.
Canberra has a new winter festival, Uncharted Territory, which the ACT government says will "showcase a fusion of ideas, entrepreneurship and creativity from some of Canberra’s most formidable minds and talents".
"What could be fairer and more reasonable than constitutionally acknowledging the totally unique role played by First Australians for 65,000 years," writes former journalist and reader ERIC HUNTER, of Cook.
Despite winning the first-preference vote count, sitting Nationals member Nichole Overall has been defeated on preferences by Labor's Steve Whan in the state seat of Monaro.
SITTING member Nichole Overall is holding her lead on Wednesday morning against Labor's Steve Whan in the primary vote count for Monaro, but her chances of re-election will rest on the allocation of preferences, which are going Whan's way.
The Assembly has passed a bill allowing workers in the hairdressing and beauty, and accommodation and food services industries to take their long-service entitlements with them when they move jobs within the same industry.
Three people have been arrested for vehicle offences and breaches of bail conditions, as Operation Toric continues to crack down in recidivist behaviour.
The south of the ACT is included in a severe thunderstorm warning for damaging winds and heavy rainfall on Wednesday morning.
With April 1 on the horizon, THE CHIEF exclusively reveals to KEEPING UP THE ACT that being a genius is hard work and that, praise be, he has a compliant ghostwriter for his upcoming political memoir, "Serious Big-Boy Thinking".
A car accident in the northbound lane of the Tuggeranong Parkway – between Hindmarsh Drive and Cotter Road – is causing delays.
Former Labor minister and member for Monaro Steve Whan is holding his lead as the count for his old seat edges towards its end following Saturday's NSW election.
