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Builders are being targeted for copper.
Builders across North Canberra have told the ABC that their sites are being targeted for copper – causing thousands of dollars' worth of damage worth far more than the wire itself.
Published: Source: ListenTopic: Construction (Assembling)
Duration: 6 minutes 45 seconds
Canberra couple awarded damages after wife awoken by a real estate agent in her bedroom conducting an inspection
The Canberra couple were awarded $1,500 in non-economic damages after a real estate agent entered their bedroom while the wife was in bed asleep with her infant son.
Published: Source: ABC NewsTopic: Law, Crime and Justice
Former WorkSafe ACT employee asks for $400,000 in compensation, arguing he was unfairly sacked
Leith Dawes takes the office of the ACT's Work Health and Safety Commissioner to the Federal Circuit Court, alleging a breach of general workplace protections.
Published: Source: ABC NewsTopic: Work
The trombone has played an odd, ongoing role in Jonathan Frakes life
The Star Trek star on playing William Riker in Star Trek: The Next Generation, his approach to directing, and ... the trombone.
Published: Source: ListenTopic: Science Fiction Films
Duration: 23 minutes 48 seconds
Stories from Growing up Indian in Australia
Growing up Indian in Australia is a collection of first-person essays on the lived migrant experiences of Indian-Australians, and the editor behind this beautiful piece of work, Aarti Betigeri, joined Kate Midena on Mornings.
Published: Source: ListenTopic: Books (Literature)
Duration: 22 minutes 54 seconds
Families and staff speak out about safety concerns at Guardian childcare centres in Canberra
Parents and former educators at Guardian Childcare and Education in Canberra tell the ABC about instances where children were forgotten outside, served mouldy bread and spoiled food, narrowly escaped anaphylactic reactions, and returned home in…
Published: Source: StatelineTopic: Child Care
Senate committee recommends major overhaul for corporate watchdog, splitting ASIC into two new regulators
Australia's corporate watchdog, ASIC, isn't prosecuting enough white-collar crime and can't perform its full range of duties, so a Senate committee has recommended it split into two new, more streamlined regulators.
Published: Source: ABC NewsTopic: Business and Industry Regulation
Police say they identified teenager allegedly involved in home invasion because he was wearing school uniform
Police say the teenager stomped on the windscreen of a car as he left the scene of the alleged home invasion in Canberra.
Published: Source: ABC NewsTopic: Courts and Trials
Making candles to honour an artist makes perfect scents for disability service provider
Art lovers visiting the National Gallery of Australia can now smell the inspiration behind one of its new exhibitions thanks to a line of scented candles.
Published: Source: ABC IllawarraTopic: Visual Art
Man who stole Nick Kyrgios's Tesla and held his mother at gunpoint jailed for more than four years
The man who stole international tennis star Nick Kyrgios's green Tesla from the player's mother at gunpoint is sentenced to four-and-a-half years' jail in the ACT Supreme Court.
Published: Source: ABC NewsTopic: Armed Robbery
'Extraordinary overreaction': Canberra man accuses police of racial profiling after arrest for trespassing at his own home
Tuck was sitting in the pool area of his own apartment complex when police arrested him, believing he was trespassing. He says it wouldn't have happened had it not been for his physical appearance.
Published: Source: ABC NewsTopic: Police
'She might be underaged': Court hears details of texts sent by Canberra man who raped 13-year-old he met on Tinder
Jaryn Timosevski is sentenced in the ACT Supreme Court after pleading guilty to three counts of rape and one act of indecency, after the girl reported the abuse to police.
Published: Source: ABC NewsTopic: Courts and Trials
Georgia hadn't even moved into her new Canberra home before it was broken into
With a new crime prevention program launching in Canberra, Georgia Wilson says she believes police must also take preventative action alongside residents.
Published: Source: ABC NewsTopic: Crime Prevention
Laws to ban live sheep exports by 2028 pass parliament following lengthy debate
Laws to phase out Australia's live sheep export trade by 2028 pass parliament, despite last-ditch attempts by opponents to put the brakes on the legislation.
Published: Source: ABC NewsTopic: Federal Government
Bandt fails to condemn Greens senator's remarks about vandalised War Memorial
Australian Greens leader Adam Bandt has failed to rebuke Senator Jordon Steele-John for comments he made linking the vandalism of the Australian War Memorial at the weekend to free speech.
Published: Source: 7.30Topic: Vandalism
Duration: 11 minutes 8 seconds
Lindy lost her best friend, but Comet the guide dog is still helping others
Lindy Hou knows loss. When she lost her sight to the degenerative eye condition retinitis pigmentosa, becoming legally blind in 1996, she went on to win six medals at two Paralympic Games.
Published: Source: ABC Radio CanberraTopic: Disabilities
Duration: 12 minutes 39 seconds
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