Today is November 26, 2020 and this is your daily news briefing from The Canberra Times. In today’s update, a Canberra private school that received a $4 million donation should be stripped of its ACT government funding, the public school teachers' union says, and flaws in the ACT's electronic voting system could have changed the result of the 2020 poll, cyber security experts say

Today is November 25, 2020 and this is your daily news briefing from The Canberra Times. In today’s update, Canberrans could be vaccinated at their workplaces, pop-up clinics, GP clinics or pharmacies once a COVID-19 vaccination is rolled out, and the ACT's hospitality industry is desperate for social distancing requirements to be eased, fearing businesses will be forced into hibernation to survive the pandemic.

Today is November 24, 2020 and this is your daily news briefing from The Canberra Times. In today’s update, as many as 45 Qantas workers at Canberra Airport have had to apply to the airline in order to keep their job, as part of a review undertaken by the carrier, and Canberra's hotel quarantine program will be bolstered by the military this week, when the capital is expected to receive its first international flight since June.

Today is November 23, 2020 and this is your daily news briefing from The Canberra Times. In today’s update, pill testing has been a contentious topic among politicians for a number of years but new research shows almost two-thirds of the population now supports the method that evidence has shown to be an effective drug harm reduction strategy around the world, and light rail stations for the second stage of the transport project to Woden will be in use years before a light rail vehicle even services the route.

Today is November 20, 2020 and this is your daily news briefing from The Canberra Times. In today’s update, the Auditor-General has warned the Australian Bureau of Statistics to lift its game in preparing for the next census, after finding it had not implemented all the lessons learnt after the 2016 meltdown, and fewer than two thirds of Australians say they will definitively get a COVID-19 vaccine once it is available, new analysis from the Australian National University shows.

Today is November 19, 2020 and this is your daily news briefing from The Canberra Times. In today’s update, Federal politicians and their inner circles will have even more scope to hide from scrutiny according to legal analysis of the proposed Commonwealth Integrity Commission, and Pfizer Inc says final results from the late-stage trial of its COVID-19 vaccine show it was 95 per cent effective, adding it had the required two-months of safety data and would apply for emergency US authorisation within days.

Today is November 18, 2020 and this is your daily news briefing from The Canberra Times. In today’s update, the mother of a man held at Canberra's jail has described conditions inside the prison after Tuesday's riot as inhumane and appalling, with prisoners in lockdown for as much as 23 hours and pain medications withdrawn, and re-elected Deputy Chief Minister Yvette Berry has downplayed leadership ambitions as she embarks on her third term in the Legislative Assembly.

Today is November 17, 2020 and this is your daily news briefing from The Canberra Times. In today’s update, bins will remain kerbside for a third week running as tensions remain between garbage truck drivers and their employer Suez over a pay dispute, with strike action set to affect 60 suburbs this week, and public servants operating under a new Commonwealth public sector wage policy will likely get a smaller pay rise than they would have under the old system, one economist has warned.

Today is November 16, 2020 and this is your daily news briefing from The Canberra Times. In today’s update, with global warming likely to make Canberra's pollen season worse, an expanded network of monitoring stations would help authorities make better public health warnings for people with hay fever and asthma, the city's leading pollen expert says, and the ACT government has filled in more potholes in the last four months than in the preceding year, with wet weather wreaking havoc on the territory's road surfaces.

Today is November 13, 2020 and this is your daily news briefing from The Canberra Times. In today’s update, Australia will see more catastrophic fire weather, hotter temperatures, rising sea levels and more intense cyclones in the coming years due to the effects of climate change, according to a new report by the government's science and weather agencies, and the Morrison government is under renewed pressure to commit to net zero emissions by 2050, after the dire warning from Australia's chief science agency about the nation's changing climate.