Patrick Bell

Ex-Liberal staffer Bruce Lehrmann testifies in court about the events leading up to the alleged rape of his former colleague Brittany Higgins at Parliament House.

Before settling, Bruce Lehrmann was due to take on the ABC in the Federal Court in Sydney today. The former Liberal staffer's defamation action against Network Ten and journalist Lisa Wilkinson continues.

Former Liberal staffer Bruce Lehrmann will take on Network Ten and the ABC in the Federal Court in Sydney today in defamation action over allegations he raped his former colleague Brittany Higgins at Parliament House in 2019.

The ACT government proposes changes to the territory's surrogacy laws, including allowing single people to access surrogacy and removing the requirement for the intended parent to have a genetic connection to the child.

Darrell Hudson is sentenced to fours years and nine months in prison for raping and choking a sex worker, and punching a hole in the brothel wall during what Acting Justice Peter Berman described as "a degrading series of assaults".

The grandson of a woman violently murdered in her Canberra home in 1999 is calling for more ACT police. 

The Federal Court heard Seema Sherghill's duties included cleaning Mavdeep Suri Singh's eight-bedroom home, preparing meals and gardening. She was only allowed to leave the house when she walked the dog.

A notorious terrorist successfully challenges former home affairs minister Peter Dutton's 2020 decision to strip his Australian citizenship.

The ACT government introduces its voluntary assisted dying bill to the Legislative Assembly, after a decades-long fight to legislate on the issue.

The mother of a five-year-old girl who died at the Canberra Hospital last year is the first witness to appear at a coronial inquest, telling the court of her "beautiful, bright, bubbly" daughter.

Canberra photographer Robyn Corbett is embarking on a project to depict fellow public housing tenants, capturing "hearts through the lens".

The ACT Integrity Commission is investigating education officials after a developer was denied a school building contract despite initially outscoring its rival.

Adam Scott's apartment complex paid to retrofit its basement so electric vehicles could charge there, which EV owners say has been life changing.

Legal advocates hope a new pilot program, one of three nationwide, will encourage more people to report allegations of sexual violence and feel supported through the criminal justice system.

The ACT government is encouraging owners of big blocks to chop them up and build a second house, but recent history raises doubts about what that will achieve.

There are growing concerns about the midwifery workforce at one of Canberra's two public hospitals, of which the ACT government recently took over management.

Peter Carne was investigated for corruption by the commission in 2018 after an anonymous complaint, though it was later determined he would not be criminally prosecuted. 

North Sydney independent MP Kylea Tink says an opposition member yelled at her aggressively in parliament on Wednesday, but Mr Dutton says he has no concerns with the account he's been given.

The environment minister hopes to avoid more species becoming extinct due to feral cats, as a draft plan to contain the animals is released for consultation.

Catherine King says a 2020 incident in which five Australian women were strip searched in Doha was one factor in her decision to reject Qatar's application to increase its flights to major Australian airports, but no single issue swayed her one way or the other.

The party is crucial to the revised plan's passage through the Senate, but it says there are still not enough guarantees around the return of water to the environment.

Treasurer Jim Chalmers says there is no need to review the rejection of Qatar's application for more flights to major Australian airports, despite a forthcoming Senate inquiry.

Shadow Transport Minister Bridget McKenzie has accused the government of stifling competition by banning 21 additional Qatar Airways flights into major capital cities each week.

A multi-party delegation will visit Washington DC later this month to make the case for the US to drop extradition proceedings against Julian Assange, ahead of the prime minster's visit to the US in October.

Anthony Albanese says aviation is "not a free-for-all" as the opposition pushes for a Senate inquiry into the rejection of Qatar Airways' bid to increase its flights to Australia.