Autism cage timeline: from Canberra classroom to the United Nations and other top stories.

• Autism cage timeline: from Canberra classroom to the United Nations

  

  March 10, 2015:  A two by two metre cage in blue metal pool fencing is constructed in a Canberra Primary school at a cost of $5195. The metal pool fence structure at the centre of the ACT's withdrawal space crisis. Photo: Supplied Over the next 17 days a 10-year-old boy with autism will be placed in it on at least a handful of occasions. On one occasion he struggled so violently to get out that he broke the lock.March 27: The structure is taken down after the ACT Human Rights Commission ..

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• Canberra mornings: Thursday August 11 2016

  

  A day after the diving pool changed colour, the adjacent water polo pool at the stadium, which was clear 12 hours earlier, also turned green for the Australian men's water polo match against Japan. Photo: Michael Chammas TODAY'S TOP STORIES Most federal public servants' salaries didn't budge last year as the stalemate on new wage deals dragged on. However, senior executives' pay began to climb after a hiatus: the median salary of an SES officer rose by 1.4 per cent in 2015.OLYMPICS Gran..

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• NRL: Canberra Raiders' Rookie recruit Lou Goodwin vows to prove ...

  

  Reality television recruit Lou Goodwin will spend the next two months working as a carpenter, but he arrived in Canberra for the first day of his NRL journey to tell Raiders coach Ricky Stuart he is ready to prove himself.Goodwin took the first steps in his stint with the Raiders when he met Stuart and football staff a week after winning TV show The Rookie and earning a guaranteed contract with Canberra. Lou Goodwin in Canberra after winning TV show The Rookie. Photo: Raiders Media He wi..

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• Canberra's winter walk to school week

  

  News. Canberra Times photo by Karen Hardy. 11th August 2016. Tabitha Bobbin, 5, of Ainslie and Luke Jakubowski, 5, of Ainslie join fellow students of Ainslie Primary School participate in Winter Walk to School Week. Photo: Karen Hardy For anyone who's ever driven down Limestone Avenue during morning peak hour, it's hard not to notice the children converging on Ainslie Primary School.Whether on foot or on their bicycles, families take advantage of the school's inner north location, walki..

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• Time is running out to enter The Canberra Times 2016 winter photo ...

  

  The mornings are getting less frosty, the days longer and the nights gradually warmer in a sign Canberra's winter is nearing its end.But don't pack away the electric blankets and heaters just yet, with the ACT expecting a run of cool mornings over the next week.  Iwan van Hagen entered this picture of sunrise in Coombs into the Canberra Times 2016 winter photo competition.  Photo: Iwan van Hagen Minimum temperatures are expected to hover between freezing and two degrees between Saturday ..

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• Pop-up 'medical cannabis information centre' to open in Canberra ...

  

  Canberrans will be able to visit a 'medical cannabis information centre' in September as an advocacy group steps up its push to open a dispensary in the ACT where marijuana is sold from a shopfront, the group claims.The Med Shed is made up of 80 medical cannabis advocates who have been working to establish a shopfront in Canberra since it formed in May. Medicinal cannabis may soon be legalised in Australia. Photo: Max Mason Hubers Group co-ordinator Matthew Holmes said he was pleased by ..

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• Former Canberra Comancheros bikie boss charged with possession ...

  

  A former Canberra Comancheros bikie boss and current prisoner has pleaded not guilty to possessing illegal drugs while in prison.Peter Zdravkovic, 34, was sent to jail last December for insurance fraud and his role in a drug selling operation.  Comancheros  He is eligible for parole this December, but is currently appealing the conviction, his lawyer told the court.Appearing before the ACT Magistrates Court on Thursday,, Zdravkovic pleaded not guilty to possessing methamphetamine, in an..

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• Tap and go payment coming to Canberra parking machines

  

  Parking machines across Canberra will soon have a pay wave option, the ACT government has said.The government machines to get the tap and go feature include those in Civic, Dickson, West Basin, Braddon and Acton.The government tweeted about the feature on Wednesday night, but it is unclear when the technology will be in place.The move is a later stage of the government's meter replacement program, which replaced old coin operated machines with new solar powered pay and display machines, allowin..

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• Sage Education and Childcare is opening Canberra's first prestige ...

  

  Sage Education and Childcare is opening Canberra's first prestige Childcare Centre complete with hatted chef, kiddie yoga, language lessons, takeaway coffees and a concierge service.

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• Canberra men rediscover cultural links through art of didgeridoo ...

  

  Canberra men rediscover cultural links through art of didgeridoo making By Nevanka McKeon Updated August 11, 2016 06:23:08 A didgeridoo-making workshop might sound like an interesting activity, but for a group of local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men in Canberra the workshops mean much more. Each fortnight up to 20 men of varying ages meet at Yarramundi Reach on the western side of Lake Burley Griffin to make the ancient instruments.Organiser Adrian Ba..

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