Canberra records third-highest childhood vaccination rates in Australia and other top stories.

• Canberra records third-highest childhood vaccination rates in Australia

  

  Canberra records third-highest childhood vaccination rates in Australia Updated February 18, 2016 10:08:40 New figures show Canberra has some of the highest childhood immunisation rates, but many children are still not fully protected.A National Health Performance Authority report on immunisation rates showed more than 93 per cent of children in the ACT Primary Health Network were fully immunised by age five.That number was only bettered by the Murrumbidgee area west of..

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• Canberra records third-highest childhood vaccination rates in Australia

  

  Canberra records third-highest childhood vaccination rates in Australia Updated February 18, 2016 10:08:40 New figures show Canberra has some of the highest childhood immunisation rates, but many children are still not fully protected.A National Health Performance Authority report on immunisation rates showed more than 93 per cent of children in the ACT Primary Health Network were fully immunised by age five.That number was only bettered by the Murrumbidgee area west of..

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  Kingston and Narrabundah are home to the capital's least immunised children, but ACT parents overall are among the most likely to immunise, new figures reveal.Overall, the ACT is topped only by Murrumbidgee, NSW, and the Hunter and Central Coast, NSW, in Australia's three most immunised areas. A guide to measles in Australia Health experts continue to warn people to check they have been immunised against measles. The capital has the highest rates of immunisation rate in the country..

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• Canberra changing the rules for police pursuits

  

  Canberra changing the rules for police pursuits Updated February 18, 2016 12:39:26 A revised ACT Policing protocol for pursuits will limit the reasons an officer can use to justify chasing a driver.Under the new protocol, police will only be able to begin a pursuit when there is a serious risk to public safety, or else in relation to a major crime involving the injury or death of a person.Road Safety Minister MP Shane Rattenbury said it was a big change from current pur..

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• Canberra man sentenced over Gungahlin ram raid

  

  Canberra man sentenced over Gungahlin ram raid Updated February 18, 2016 12:36:54 A Canberra man involved in a ram raid at a Gungahlin shopping centre last year has been sentenced to more than two years' jail in the ACT Supreme Court.Michael Johnstone, 21, was a passenger in the car which was driven into the centre and smashed into the front of a jewellery shop.The court heard damage was estimated at $60,000.Jewellery taken during the heist was valued at $29,000, althou..

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• The defence of Canberra as the public service capital should be ...

  

  Video will begin in 5 seconds. Joyce takes over Nationals to become new deputy PM Barnaby Joyce emerges as the new leader of the National Party following Warren Truss' exit, with Fiona Nash elected as his deputy. Courtesy ABC News 24. PT3M12S 620 349  The city of Canberra is vulnerable to a number of threats. Some of them we share with other Australian cities, but others are specific to the national capital. We are a growing city, now in its second century, but the threats rem..

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• Sprinters flock to Canberra to emulate Josh Clarke's fast time

  

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• Capital Life: What's on in Canberra's arts scene from February 19

  

  Holding Space by Hayley West in a show aimed at contributing to the conversation on death and memorial. Photo: Supplied  Remnants at ANCA Ready to confront your own mortality? Hayley West has a solo show opening at ANCA this week aimed at "contributing to the conversation on death and memorial" in art, through sculptures and moving images. "West's research for a Masters of Visual Art at Charles Darwin University explores the realities of grief through personal experiences and artistic pract..

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• Seven things I love about living in Canberra

  

  Canberra. The city the rest of Australia blames for all our political problems. But Canberra, my home town, is so much more than that big white rabbit-warren topped by a flag pole on top of a hill. People like to joke that nothing happens here, that the city shuts down at 8pm, that there are too many roundabouts, too many public servants and not enough soul. Let them think that. The less people who know that Canberra is a fantastic place to live the better I reckon. So pay no attention to my se..

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• Famous Spiegeltent comes to Canberra

  

  It takes about two days to put together the 3000 pieces that make up the 96-year-old Famous Spiegeltent.But owner David Bates always leaves the task of putting the final piece in place, the centre of the dance floor, to the same person – his 10-year-old daughter Persephone Bates d'Arbela, who has been travelling the world with the tent since she was two. Blake Watson lays the floor in the Famous Spiegeltent. Photo: Elesa Kurtz The canvas and wooden Spiegeltent – Dutch for "mirror tent" –..

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• Malcolm Turnbull's new ministry sworn-in in Canberra

  

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