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Today is September 3, 2020 and this is your daily news briefing from The Canberra Times. In today’s update, the ACT is the only state or territory where rental affordability has declined, the Real Estate Institute of Australia's housing affordability report found, and the Canberra Hospital expansion will be powered entirely on renewable energy in an Australian first.

Today is September 2, 2020 and this is your daily news briefing from The Canberra Times. In today’s update, Labor has attempted to censure Aged Care Minister Richard Colbeck over "death, grief and untold trauma" stemming from coronavirus deaths, and Canberra house values have continued to rise during the coronavirus pandemic, according to new data.

Today is September 1, 2020 and this is your daily news briefing from The Canberra Times. In today’s update, the Australian government's ban preventing Huawei being part of the country's 5G network has cost the Canberra Raiders their major sponsor, and south-eastern Australia will not face the same fire conditions this summer which led to thousands of homes and hundreds of thousands of hectares being destroyed by bushfires last year.

Today is August 31, 2020 and this is your daily news briefing from The Canberra Times. In today’s update, ACT Chief Minister Andrew Barr is calling on the federal government to do a small upgrade on the AIS Arena to give them time to build a new arena, and adoption advocates have welcomed changes to ACT laws.

Today is August 28, 2020 and this is your daily news briefing from The Canberra Times. In today’s update, the ACT's budget deficit is expected to swell to almost $1 billion this financial year, as the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic takes a huge toll on the budget's bottom line. And law to criminalise sexuality and gender identity conversion practices was passed on the final sitting day of the ACT Legislative Assembly before the October election.

Today is August 27, 2020 and this is your daily news briefing from The Canberra Times. In today’s update, a Singapore-based construction company has paid more than $20 million for a Civic site and will build student accommodation for more than 700 people, and a truck driver and labourer has successfully sued his "hostile" and bankrupt uncle for more than $500,000 after a crane knocked him off the back of a truck and caused him "very nasty" injuries.

Today is August 26, 2020 and this is your daily news briefing from The Canberra Times. In today’s update, WorkSafe ACT has shut down 11 building sites all belonging to one local construction company after serious safety issues were uncovered at the sites, and social work and psychology students will likely be spared looming university fee hikes, with the Nationals claiming a major policy win over their Liberal stablemates.

Today is August 25, 2020 and this is your daily news briefing from The Canberra Times. In today’s update, the ACT's effective unemployment rate has nearly halved since April in new Treasury figures reflecting the impact of Victoria's second wave on the national economy, and snowfalls that blanketed parts of the city over the weekend didn't just bring a dumping of white to the ACT - they also brought traffic jams.

Today is August 24, 2020 and this is your daily news briefing from The Canberra Times. In today’s update, frosty mornings are expected to continue this week after light flurries of snow dusted some suburbs across Canberra over the weekend and the ACT has surpassed another testing milestone as it continued a six-week streak with no COVID-19 cases reported.

Today is August 21, 2020 and this is your daily news briefing from The Canberra Times. In today’s update, the ACT was well prepared to respond to the summer bushfires and it was not through accident or luck that no lives or homes were lost in the territory, a review has found, and it has been 41 days since a COVID-19 infection was detected in the ACT.