The Latest Breaking News from ACT

The tragic death of the young girl has been referred to the ACT Coroner.

Newly-elected senator David Pocock has already made history by becoming the first independent to hold a senate seat for the ACT.

The ACT recorded 1104 new COVID-19 cases in the 24 hours until 8pm Tuesday.

The ACT government releases a draft bill proposing changes to rental laws, including banning landlords or agents from soliciting rental bids and eviction of a tenant without cause.

The ABC understands the girl had a number of tests carried out at the hospital before a decision was made to transport her to Sydney for treatment, but she died before this could occur.

States and territories across Australia are seeing a dramatic increase in the number of people in hospital with COVID, but intensive care admissions are falling.

The ACT recorded 949 new COVID-19 cases in the 24 hours until 8pm Monday.

Under compulsory preferential voting, all formal votes must eventually preference one of the major parties over the other. The electoral commission has released preference flow information for all minor parties, This means we can tell, for example, how many Greens voters preferred Labor and how many the Coalition.

If the wave has peaked, Canberra would be unlikely to record the 3000 cases a day predicted a fortnight ago.