The Latest Breaking News from Canberra

Australia retain Women’s Ashes after Darcie Brown stars in first ODI win over England

Australia retained the Women’s Ashes with a comfortable victory over England in the first ODI at Canberra’s Manuka Oval.

Evening Standard · Feb 3, 2022

Former Canberra Vodafone shop owner Mohit Arora avoids jail after allowing his customers to be defrauded

Mohit Arora, 34, is placed on a three-year good behaviour bond after a judge found his involvement in the fraud was reckless rather than knowing.

ABC News · Feb 3, 2022

Canberra's Smith-Shields out of NRL season

Canberra have confirmed promising centre Harley Smith-Shields will miss the 2022 NRL season after suffering an ACL injury.

AAP · Feb 3, 2022

Arrests as police ask protesters to leave

Four people have been arrested as a group of anti-vaccination protesters were asked to move on from an unapproved camp near Canberra's National Library.

AAP · Feb 2, 2022

Nation records 69 Covid deaths as hospital numbers fall – as it happened

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The Guardian - AU · Feb 1, 2022

Michael Pascoe: Scott Morrison declares war, sort of

Martin Luther King delivered soaring rhetoric; Scott Morrison took his sky pilot familiarity to Canberra for as dulling a sermon as you’re likely to hear.

The New Daily · Feb 1, 2022

Peter van Onselen accused of humiliating and belittling colleague in federal court claim against Network Ten

Network managers said Van Onselen was ‘batshit crazy’ and Canberra bureau ‘toxic’, according to claim filed by reporter Tegan George

The Guardian - AU · Feb 1, 2022

NRL rule tweak welcome move for Whitehead

Canberra co-captain Elliott Whitehead believes the NRL has made the right move by tweaking the six-again rule for the 2022 season.

AAP · Feb 1, 2022

Canberra woman who attended Halloween party while COVID-positive given good behaviour order in the ACT Magistrates Court

An ACT woman who attended a Halloween party and kissed friends while knowingly COVID positive is given a good behaviour order in the ACT Magistrates court.

ABC News · Feb 1, 2022

Parents of 19-year-old Lachlan Seary tell of 'indelible emotional scar' left by his death in Monaro Highway crash

The family of Canberra ice hockey player Lachlan Seary, killed on the Monaro Highway last year, give a harrowing account of the impact losing their son has had on them.

ABC News · Feb 1, 2022