Today is December 10, 2020 and this is your daily news briefing from The Canberra Times. In today’s update, Canberra police are investigating a possible breach of hotel quarantine after a person reportedly entered the Pacific Suites Hotel and bypassed security, and unions and Labor are sharpening their spears over industrial relations changes they say are the biggest attack on workers' rights since Work Choices.

Today is December 9, 2020 and this is your daily news briefing from The Canberra Times. In today’s update, employers will be able to use the COVID-19 pandemic as a reason for an enterprise agreement to be approved even if it doesn't pass the better-off--overall test for two years, under more industrial relations reforms to be announced by the government on Wednesday, and Liberal Senator Zed Seselja has called on his colleague and federal Health Minister Greg Hunt to consider Commonwealth support for victims of Mr Fluffy asbestos.

Today is December 8, 2020 and this is your daily news briefing from The Canberra Times. In today’s update, the federal government's security vetting system has yet to implement all the audit office's recommendations amid revelations sensitive documents were opened by couriers and lost in the mail, a new audit report has revealed, and the Australian National University's scientific reputation could be at stake as a result of its proposal to cut 103 jobs from the College of Science, academics say.

Today is December 7, 2020 and this is your daily news briefing from The Canberra Times. In today’s update, Chief Health Officers pushed to the fore during the pandemic should use their elevated visibility to prepare the health system which has "totally neglected" climate change, and the Barr government should use the looming ACT budget to inject funding into services to support the nearly 40,000 Canberrans living in poverty, the ACT Council of Social Service has said.

Today is December 4, 2020 and this is your daily news briefing from The Canberra Times. In today’s update, the Department of Parliamentary Services has a culture problem with increased bullying and harassment, and a schism between management and staff, according to the main public sector union, and a vehicle used to transport Canberra prisoners has serious design flaws that would trap prisoners in the event of a crash or fire, a scathing review into Canberra's corrective services has revealed.

Today is December 3, 2020 and this is your daily news briefing from The Canberra Times. In today’s update, Canberra's hospitality businesses were boosted with a "game-changer" lift in coronavirus restrictions on Wednesday, bringing even more optimism for economic recovery over summer, and ACT police are set to ramp up patrols of popular night spots across the city during coming weeks, despite a fall in alcohol-related assaults in previous years.

Today is December 2, 2020 and this is your daily news briefing from The Canberra Times. In today’s update, a new Senate inquiry will probe the use of contractors in the Australian Public Service, while a wider investigation into privatisation has been shut down, and a senior member in the ACT's bushfire response questioned why a Defence helicopter was in Namadgi National Park on the day it accidentally sparked the Orroral Valley blaze, a confidential document has revealed.

Today is December 1, 2020 and this is your daily news briefing from The Canberra Times. In today’s update, JWLand has proposed a $97 million development for the third stage of its mega Northbourne Avenue site in Lyneham, and a skittish government has forced the head of Australia's military to reconsider whether to implement all the recommendations of the Brereton report into evidence of war crimes.

Today is November 30, 2020 and this is your daily news briefing from The Canberra Times. In today’s update, the ACT's strict rules-based planning regime would be replaced with a simpler system designed to deliver developments which better suit Canberra's suburbs, under long-awaited reforms being thrashed out by the Barr government, and some single-use plastics would be outlawed in Canberra under proposed laws to be introduced to the ACT Parliament this week.

Today is November 27, 2020 and this is your daily news briefing from The Canberra Times. In today’s update, the number of Australians stranded overseas wanting to return to the country before Christmas has risen to nearly 37,000 with those regarded as "vulnerable" doubling to more than 8000 as the government scrambles to organise assisted flights ahead of Christmas, a public hearing has revealed, and donations to schools should be applauded, philanthropy advocates say, as the Australian Education Union doubles down on its stance that private schools should have reduced government funding off the back of large donations.