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Today is OCTOBER 5, 2021 and this is your daily news briefing from The Canberra Times. In today’s update, The ACT government is "going full throttle" to support the economy post-COVID, while the year 12 cohorts returns to face-to-face learning.

Today is OCTOBER 4, 2021 and this is your daily news briefing from The Canberra Times. In today’s update, the family of an elderly man murdered by a drug-crazed teenager outside his Palmerston home say they don’t believe the killer’s new sentence is adequate, and NSW Treasurer Dominic Perrottet has pulled off a faction deal which will see him succeed Gladys Berejiklian as premier.

Today is OCTOBER 1, 2021 and this is your daily news briefing from The Canberra Times. In today’s update, ACT Health clarifies confusion over how children fit into visitor restriction changes, and Australia has been ranked equal last in a scorecard on gender pay gap reporting.

Today is SEPTEMBER 30, 2021 and this is your daily news briefing from The Canberra Times. In today’s update, the lockdown lifeline has been significantly boosted again for struggling ACT businesses, and CNN is preventing Australians from accessing its Facebook pages following a court ruling.

Today is SEPTEMBER 29, 2021 and this is your daily news briefing from The Canberra Times. In today’s update, the NSW government is unable to say if or when it will lift stay-at-home restrictions for travelling Canberrans, and Australians should be able to test themselves for COVID-19 at home in just over a month.

Today is SEPTEMBER 28, 2021 and this is your daily news briefing from The Canberra Times. In today’s update, the association representing hotels, bars and restaurants in Canberra responds to the new plan for emerging from lockdown, some Nationals backbenchers have rejected any net zero emissions goal if it means losing coal jobs.

Today is SEPTEMBER 27, 2021 and this is your daily news briefing from The Canberra Times. In today’s update, The first dedicated coroner for the ACT will soon be appointed, and the ACT Education Directorate will roll out air quality monitors in more schools in term four.

Today is SEPTEMBER 24, 2021 and this is your daily news briefing from The Canberra Times. In today’s update, Andrew Barr has hit back at critics, refusing to accelerate a Covid pathway announcement, and New data has shown which age group has suffered the worst mental health effects from COVID-19.

Today is SEPTEMBER 23, 2021 and this is your daily news briefing from The Canberra Times. In today’s update, ACT Labor leader Andrew Barr is not concerned there would be an infiltration of the union movement or any protests by far-right groups in the ACT, and the Chief Minister stressed community responsibility to limit the spread of COVID-19 did not stop when individuals were fully vaccinated.

Today is SEPTEMBER 22, 2021 and this is your daily news briefing from The Canberra Times. In today’s update, Unions claim anti-vaxxers and the far right have been targeting them and members for months in a bid to derail the vaccine rollout, and ACT Chief health officer says restriction will not be tightened to stamp out virus transmission between essential workers.