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1	Jun 16, '22	The Albanese Labor government is ending the compulsory religious aspect of the $60 million a year National School Chaplaincy Program \| @KJBar	31.6×	0	2.7k	363	8
2	Jul 5, '22	#BREAKING Tennis star Nick Kyrgios has been summonsed to face a Canberra court after allegedly assaulting a former girlfriend late last year \| Exclusive via @blake_foden	19.7×	0	517	311	44
3	Apr 12, '22	The factory which Scott Morrison toured to spruik the Coalition's job-creation agenda is poised to shed workers as part of a restructure which will see more products made overseas,	16.5×	0	822	447	6
4	Jul 18, '22	Analysis: The Coalition hid a major environment report. Now we know why #auspol \| @D_JervisBardy	14.1×	0	1k	262	6
5	Aug 22, '18	BREAKING: The childcare company operated for Peter Dutton's family trust received more than $5.6m in public funding	13.2×	0	365	496	3
6	Apr 23, '23	"Are you not entertained" Canberra? \| @EntertainingAmy	12.6×	54k	245	27	4
7	May 16, '21	Parliament staff ordered to stay silent following Brittany Higgins allegations, story via @sbasfordcanales	11.8×	0	522	320	9
8	Feb 12, '22	Good morning, Canberra. We're in for a partly cloudy day and a top of 25 degrees. Here's today's front page, featuring stories from @lucybladen, @FinnianMchugh and @SarahLansdown.	10.9×	0	801	157	4
9	Aug 20, '21	ACT Policing say their time is being wasted by "needless" calls, including an attempt to report two maskless children jumping on a trampoline in their own backyard.	10.9×	0	488	126	13
10	Apr 11, '23	Politicians of all stripes are increasing pressure on the US government to drop extradition proceedings against Julian Assange.	10.7×	46k	209	83	0
11	Feb 20, '22	EXCLUSIVE: Welfare recipients who fail to update their employment or relationship status could become the subject of covert surveillance as Services Australia looks to engage PIs t	10.4×	0	256	162	19
12	May 15, '20	How has the Morrison Government fared in its first year? Give us your verdict:	10.3×	0	144	122	7
13	Nov 3, '18	The rain may have delayed Taylor Swift's Sydney show, but it didn't dampen spirits.	9.7×	0	770	196	3
14	Nov 9, '21	Australia has ranked last for its climate policy among more than 60 nations in a global performance report released at COP26 on Tuesday. Via @AlexCrowe12	9.2×	0	647	173	5
15	Nov 5, '20	Peter Dutton claims murder and child exploitation is going unnoticed because Queensland police are manning roadblocks at the state border.	8.7×	0	105	36	6
16	Dec 10, '19	Emergency Management Minister David Littleproud has warned deploying more defence force resources to bushfires could pose national security risks.	8.7×	0	91	99	1
17	Jan 29, '20	Ministers know better than public servants, says PM.	8.6×	0	210	128	4
18	Feb 18, '22	EDITORIAL: Do the PM and Defence Minister appreciate the irony their willingness to politicise national security and the China relationship is a greater threat to this country than	8.5×	0	607	164	1
19	Mar 14, '21	A year since Julian Assange's father last saw his son in London's maximum-security Belmarsh prison, he is bringing his fight for the WikiLeaks founder's freedom to the Parliament H	8.3×	0	530	214	4
20	Feb 18, '22	EDITORIAL: Do the PM and Defence Minister appreciate the irony their willingness to politicise national security and the China relationship is a greater threat to this country than	8.1×	0	594	154	1
21	Mar 26, '20	Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews wants Australia locked down.	6.9×	0	399	155	2
22	Jun 18, '22	The former Nationals leader takes on the role after a "highly competitive and rigorous global talent search".	5.6×	0	140	46	2
23	May 16, '22	A re-elected Coalition government would cut $1 billion in spending on the public service over the next four years, reports @harleyd	4.9×	0	125	109	0
24	May 2, '23	Canberra's largest cycling organisation is appealing to the ACT government to reduce speed limits to 30km/h in all suburban streets and town centres.	4.7×	20k	78	11	1
25	May 19, '20	One in eight Australians believe Microsoft founder Bill Gates is somehow responsible for the coronavirus and the 5G wireless network is to blame for spreading the disease.	4.6×	0	91	41	5
26	Dec 11, '22	Opinion: Liberals lining up to kiss the Morrison ring when they should have been censuring him for flagrant breaches of public and parliamentary trust, suggest the lesson for Dutto	4.4×	0	352	62	4
27	Feb 15, '22	A $500,000 decision by the Home Affairs Department to hire 19 holiday rentals for quarantining government officials is under the microscope after it was revealed a senior figure ea	4.4×	0	223	130	3
28	Jun 3, '22	Prime Minister Anthony Albanese plans to lead the country from The Lodge in Canberra as part of his efforts to restore the city's status as the national capital \| @KJBar	4.3×	0	337	67	0
29	Jun 19, '19	Former Liberal opposition leader John Hewson says the Coalition's $158 billion tax cut plan will be unaffordable as the Australian economy weakens. @katie_b_burgess	4.3×	0	217	125	1
30	Apr 9, '23	Aboriginal resistance to British invasion should get its own "substantial" section at the Australian War Memorial, the new head of its ruling council Kim Beazley says, via @Evansth	4.2×	18k	261	65	0
31	Jan 6, '22	A Canberra man in his 20s has died from COVID-19 in a Sydney hospital, despite being fully vaccinated and having no underlying health conditions, @jclindell reports	4.0×	0	196	106	5
32	Jan 11, '20	Opinion: Scott Morrison is unfit to be prime minister. His inaction in the lead-up to the bushfire crisis and his later response to it reveals this, writes Crispin Hull.	4.0×	0	210	106	1
33	Jun 30, '21	"It was not a national cabinet decision, it was one that the Prime Minister has made of his own accord," ACT Chief Minister Andrew Barr said of the AstraZeneca changes. Via @lucybl	3.8×	0	229	84	3
34	Apr 11, '23	The Australian Public Service "lost its soul" at times during the rollout of the unlawful robodebt scheme, secretary for Public Sector Reform Gordon de Brouwer says.	3.7×	16k	99	35	2
35	May 15, '23	Light rail is the single most popular public transport route in Canberra, taking more than 20 per cent of all passenger boardings in three months to December \| @jclindell	3.6×	15k	79	6	0
36	Jan 27, '22	The BA.2 subvariant of the Omicron coronavirus variant, which is dominant in Denmark, appears more contagious than the more common BA.1 sub-lineage, Danish Health Minister Magnus H	3.6×	0	105	82	10
37	Jul 23, '20	I once tried to give Ita Buttrose advice. I was a very junior editor at what was then Fairfax. She was in charge of the Sun-Herald, writes @JennaPrice	3.5×	0	170	79	3
38	Aug 11, '22	The ACT's chief health officer would like to soon stop reporting daily COVID-19 case numbers \| @lucybladen	3.5×	0	110	22	2
39	Jun 13, '20	OPINION: We are destined to go down the same road as the US unless Australian police reverse the trend towards militarisation, intimidation and a lack of accountability, writes Jac	3.4×	0	173	95	3
40	Dec 10, '22	Opinion: Jailing climate protestor Violet Coco shows anti-protest laws have gone too far \| @ebony_bennett	3.3×	0	236	62	2
41	Oct 10, '20	Regional areas may not be able to access ABC and SBS on television due to funding and equipment issues.	3.3×	0	117	96	0
42	Jun 16, '20	The head of the government's COVID-19 commission has blocked access to information about flights by his private jet, reports @kirstenlawsonCT.	3.3×	0	103	113	0
43	Jun 26, '22	Opinion \| In the moral test to be applied by history, it is not Assange or Collaery or Witness K who will have been on trial but Australia's claim to the primacy of truth, freedom	3.3×	0	179	95	1
44	Aug 11, '19	Is Throw Your Arms Around Me the greatest Australian song of all time?	3.3×	0	110	13	5
45	Dec 2, '21	Evidence presented to a Senate committee has "strongly pointed" to Prime Minister Scott Morrison being aware car park funding was being targeted to Coalition-held and marginal seat	3.1×	0	178	84	2
46	Aug 27, '21	It comes after 19,000 people checked into a Bunnings store in one day in Canberra during the lockdown.	3.0×	0	138	65	2
47	Jan 25, '22	Aged Care Services Minister Richard Colbeck is under fire amid revelations he attended an Ashes Test on the same date he said he couldn't front Parliament's COVID-19 committee. Via	3.0×	0	190	66	0
48	Dec 28, '18	Cartoonist @davpope has been drawing for The Canberra Times for 10 years. From a simple visual gag, to a complicated, multi-panel statement, Pope has always liked to mix up his dai	2.9×	0	161	77	3
49	Oct 6, '19	Here's this morning's grand final wrap front page, with stories from @Super_Couch and @cadenhelmers	2.8×	0	193	48	0
50	Oct 1, '21	Canberra is to be the first place in Australia to have an electric fire truck. The ACT government is set to take delivery of the million-dollar vehicle next year, via @EvanstheAirw	2.7×	0	226	41	2
51	May 5, '22	Based on the polling given exclusively to @canberratimes, David Pocock has passed The Greens to poll in the third position just behind Zed Seselja, leaving the incumbent in peril o	2.7×	0	203	31	0
52	Feb 11, '20	The Senate has threatened to strip Mathias Cormann of his role as government leader in the upper house if he refuses to table to Gaetjens report into the sports rort affair. via @k	2.7×	0	151	77	1
53	Jun 13, '20	Vandals damaged monuments dedicated to John Howard and Tony Abbott in Ballarat overnight.	2.7×	0	126	37	0
54	Aug 12, '21	BREAKING NEWS: Eight ANU residence halls have close contacts, forcing hundreds of students into isolation, reports @kathrynjlewis	2.7×	0	131	73	3
55	Mar 15, '19	"We'll stop acting like adults if you stop acting like children," students told crowds gathered in Garema Place. via @Sherryn_G	2.5×	0	150	69	1
56	Apr 3, '20	The federal government is providing $220 million to upgrade a CSIRO biosecurity research facility in Geelong to help better understand the coronavirus and test potential vaccines.	2.4×	0	95	39	0
57	Jan 25, '22	Dylan Alcott has been named 2022 Australian of the Year. Via @LanieT96	2.4×	0	205	27	0
58	Jan 7, '20	Smoke from Australia's fires reaches Chile	2.4×	0	82	79	3
59	Jan 22, '20	Breaking: the fire near Canberra airport is now at emergency level and people in Beard and Oaks Estate are being advised to leave now.	2.4×	0	84	89	0
60	Jul 27, '22	Supporters of Julian Assange will rally outside Parliament House to call on the prime minister to seek the Wikileaks founder's release.	2.3×	0	131	67	1
61	May 23, '22	The Albanese government has moved swiftly to change the head of the Prime Minister's department \| @dougdingwall	2.3×	0	149	34	0
62	Jan 1, '20	Telstra will provide free mobile bills for volunteer firefighters for December and January to thank them for their efforts in protecting communities around Australia.	2.3×	0	185	35	0
63	Aug 13, '21	The ACT government will provide free food and essential items for Canberrans needing support during the territory's lockdown.	2.2×	0	131	54	0
64	Jan 2, '20	Questacon, Cockington Green and a number of public pools are closed due to hazardous smoke haze in Canberra. Story via @lucybladen	2.2×	0	98	78	0
65	Jul 21, '23	Most disasters are only seen through the rearview mirror. In the case of the pesticides and veterinary authority's forced move from Canberra to Armidale, it was right there in the	2.2×	9.2k	102	45	0
66	Jan 11, '20	Opinion: It's high time the government confronted the climate deniers within its ranks, because they are damaging the country, not just party room harmony, writes @ebony_bennett.	2.0×	0	104	63	2
67	Oct 21, '23	'The truth is out there': Australia accused of treating UFO threat as a 'piss-take'	2.0×	8.6k	86	14	3
68	Jan 18, '20	Law firm Slater and Gordon is considering launching a class action over the Coalition government's so-called "sports rorts scandal". @katie_b_burgess has the story.	2.0×	0	120	50	1
69	Apr 5, '20	Jacinda Ardern has taken aim at Australia's new ruling on temporary visa holders after acting Immigration Minister Alan Tudge effectively told thousands of out-of-work New Zealande	2.0×	0	101	49	2
70	Apr 11, '20	OPINION: As an emergency department consultant, I believe people are still fundamentally misunderstanding the dangers of COVID-19, writes @ACTINOSProject.	2.0×	0	89	60	2
71	Feb 7, '22	The department could employ public servants to do the same job as consultants for thousands of dollars less each day, the opposition public service spokeswoman says, via @dougdingw	1.9×	0	128	42	2
72	Jun 17, '22	Education Minister Jason Clare has quickly moved to open up the program to give schools the option to choose either a professionally qualified student welfare officer or a chaplain	1.9×	0	139	35	1
73	Apr 12, '20	Here's today's front page, featuring @davpope	1.9×	0	120	44	3
74	Mar 30, '22	Morning, Canberra. Thursday is set for a top of 18 degrees with winds up to 40km/h. Today's front page features stories by @KJBar, @FinnianMchugh, @sbasfordcanales and @D_JervisBar	1.9×	0	130	32	0
75	Jun 13, '21	Peta Credlin 'humbled' by AO in Queen's Birthday Honours.	1.9×	0	153	15	0
76	Jun 1, '23	Good morning, Canberra. We're in for a cloudy day and a top of 17 degrees. Here's today's @canberratimes front page.	1.9×	7.9k	107	50	2
77	May 15, '22	Julia Gillard has intervened in the ACT Senate race, writing a personal letter to Canberrans endorsing Katy Gallagher and asking them not to risk losing one of the ALP's "best, bri	1.9×	0	138	36	1
78	Jul 6, '22	'Unenforceable': ACT Chief Minister Andrew Barr says there are no more interventions left to stop COVID spread, insisting he won't be implementing a mask mandate \| @jclindell	1.8×	0	84	15	1
79	Jun 25, '20	Opinion: The role of the manager of emergency broadcasting has been made redundant. Of all the baffling decisions at the ABC, this one makes my head explode, writes @JennaPrice	1.7×	0	73	60	0
80	Dec 10, '21	Michael Nesmith, singer and guitarist with The Monkees, has died at the age of 78, his spokesman says.	1.7×	0	128	27	5
81	Apr 19, '22	Penny Wong said the Morrison government failed to act sooner to prevent the Solomon Islands' security pact with China and instead sent a "junior woodchuck" in a last-minute attempt	1.7×	0	83	42	0
82	Oct 17, '20	ACT Labor is set for a sixth consecutive election victory, with Canberrans delivering Chief Minister Andrew Barr another four years in power.	1.7×	0	129	31	0
83	May 24, '22	Zed Seselja is refusing to concede defeat as independent David Pocock edges closer to an historic ACT Senate win \| @D_JervisBardy	1.7×	0	113	15	0
84	May 5, '23	European-style intersections that slow down motorists and provide better protections for cyclists and pedestrians will become standard in Canberra under a new government plan, @jcl	1.6×	7k	74	12	3
85	Aug 29, '21	Independent MP Zali Steggall has unveiled a private members bill to stamp out lies and misinformation in federal election campaigns. Via @D_JervisBardy	1.6×	0	112	28	0
86	Apr 2, '21	OPINION: How can young men be so unsympathetic to this cause? @JennaPrice asks	1.5×	0	93	24	3
87	Dec 18, '21	OPINION \| Spare a thought for the moderates in the Liberal Party, because frankly, that's about all they spare for you, writes @markgkenny	1.5×	0	90	37	2
88	Feb 25, '21	Tasmanian independent MP Andrew Wilkie was the only person to voice their opposition.	1.3×	0	90	29	0
89	Dec 29, '19	There will be no fireworks in Canberra on New Year's Eve due to the announcement of a total fire ban, reports @brewski01.	1.3×	0	76	29	0
90	May 24, '23	Fourteen kookaburras cosy up on one branch at Tidbinbilla	1.3×	5.5k	87	12	0
91	May 30, '22	For a known hard-man trying to sound more user-friendly, it was a pretty punchy start. One got the distinct sense it was the voters who had got things wrong, not the former governm	1.3×	0	89	21	1
92	Aug 13, '21	A man who claims he is Canberra's first COVID-19 case has spoken out, saying he doesn't know how he caught the virus and that he is seriously ill.	1.3×	0	96	18	2
93	Jan 27, '22	ANALYSIS: If the size of the press pack trailing Anthony Albanese on his trip to the NSW South Coast on Thursday was any measure, the federal election campaign is no longer upon us	1.3×	0	83	19	0
94	Aug 9, '19	Canberra, we have snow!	1.2×	0	80	23	0
95	Jun 6, '22	Witnesses could take the stand at the robodebt royal commission as soon as this year, says new government services minister Bill Shorten \| @D_JervisBardy …	1.2×	0	82	27	1
96	Aug 27, '18	It's the 110th birthday of Australian cricket legend Don Bradman. We took a look back on his life and extraordinary career.	1.2×	0	81	24	2
97	Apr 23, '23	Opinion: The Coalition's top priority for its shadow minister "for" Indigenous Australians is to discredit an exhaustive multi-year process of consultation and consensus-building \|	1.0×	4.2k	67	27	0
98	Feb 14, '22	A makeshift camp at Cotter Campground is being dispersed by police after protesters made their way to the reserve following their eviction from Exhibition Park, via @AlexCrowe12	1.0×	0	65	11	1
99	Sep 12, '21	OPINION: If ministerial responsibility retained any meaning at all, Health Minister Greg Hunt's position might now untenable, writes @markgkenny.	0.9×	0	71	17	0
100	Nov 9, '20	Former NSW fire commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons has been recognised as the state's Australian of the Year after guiding it through one of the worst bushfire seasons in history.	0.9×	0	85	9	0

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