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Today is March 23, 2021 and this is your daily news briefing from The Canberra Times. In today’s update, residents and emergency services are preparing for a torrential downpour to lash the ACT and surrounds, with up to 80mm of rain expected to close roads and submerge bridges, and the ACT Education Directorate has spent almost $40 million in the past four years cleaning up lead paint and asbestos in schools, admitting they only informed parents of the most recent contamination because of media attention.

Today is March 22, 2021 and this is your daily news briefing from The Canberra Times. In today’s update, local GPs are splitting off their practices to specifically handle the COVID-19 vaccine in order to keep up with a surge in demand at clinics of people wanting to receive the jab, and Canberra was spared the worst of the wild weather lashing the NSW coast on Sunday but still experienced a wet and windy weekend.

Today is March 19, 2021 and this is your daily news briefing from The Canberra Times. In today’s update, repairs to Canberra's jail in the wake of the November riot last year, in which prisoners set fire to their cells, have been estimated at more than $2.5 million, and intense lobbying is under way by the ACT government and airport executives to involve Canberra in direct flights to New Zealand when quarantine-free travel resumes, probably in April.

Today is March 18, 2021 and this is your daily news briefing from The Canberra Times. In today’s update, calls to some Canberra GPs more than doubled on Wednesday as eligible vaccine recipients scrambled to book a time to get the AstraZeneca jab, and the federal government will use a $41 million research package to identify public service jobs to move into regional areas under the next stage of its decentralisation project, according to Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack.

Today is March 17, 2021 and this is your daily news briefing from The Canberra Times. In today’s update, the ACT is set to start the second phase of its vaccine rollout next week, but the territory government is in the dark about how many AstraZeneca vaccines it will actually get from the Commonwealth, and there are a number of gaps in policy and procedure in the way ACT police deal with the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community, and officers need greater cultural training, the ACT Ombudsman has found.

Today is March 16, 2021 and this is your daily news briefing from The Canberra Times. In today’s update, lead dust has been found in more ACT schools as the Education Directorate rolls out new sustainable demountable classrooms, and a trio of inner-north residents believe their plan for communal living, a first for the ACT, can change Canberra's planning laws.

Today is March 15, 2021 and this is your daily news briefing from The Canberra Times. In today’s update, thousands will descend on Parliament House today, calling for action against gender-based violence, for a march organisers say will mark a turning point, and the ACT could save more than $60 million if it pushed forward construction of a square stadium in Civic.

his is March 12, 2021 and this is your daily news briefing from the Canberra Times. In today's update, Switching on the nations largest solar farm and Canberra turns 108

Today is March 11, 2021 and this is your daily news briefing from the Canberra Times. In today's update, proposed new powers for federal police and half price flights on offer to boost domestic tourism

Today is March 10, 2021 and this is your daily news briefing from the Canberra Times. In today's update, AstraZeneca vaccine rollout starting in today and ACT government supports criminalisation of coercive control