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Happy Friday! Congrats - you've made it to the end of another working week. We're in for a partly cloudy day today, with a top of 26 degrees.
Grab your coffee - here's what's making news.
Massive city overhaul: extra 37,000 dwellings, new towers
![The ACT Government's proposal to overhaul Canberra's city and north. Photo: Daniel Burdon The ACT Government's proposal to overhaul Canberra's city and north. Photo: Daniel Burdon](/images/transform/v1/crop/frm/silverstone-ct-migration/5ab6388c-2feb-442c-8f7c-761e9c485194/r0_0_1077_589_w1200_h678_fmax.jpg)
The Barr government is set to lift height limits across the urban renewal precinct, in some places up to 48 metres, to allow an extra 37,000 dwellings along the stage one light rail route and out to Exhibition Park.
Planning Minister Mick Gentleman and new National Capital authority chief Sally Barnes on Thursday released plans detailing a massive overhaul of the city and Canberra's north, stretching to the ACT border.
Daniel Burdon has the details.
The Kingo could join list of treasured historical sites
![Nick Swain, president of the Canberra & District historical society has nominated the Kingston Hotel to be put on the Heritage list. Photo by Karleen Minney. Photo: karleen minney Nick Swain, president of the Canberra & District historical society has nominated the Kingston Hotel to be put on the Heritage list. Photo by Karleen Minney. Photo: karleen minney](/images/transform/v1/crop/frm/silverstone-ct-migration/84bf040d-81ad-4f3c-9da9-40acf13cd8a2/r0_0_2000_1330_w1200_h678_fmax.jpg)
It's been the scene of political coups, espionage and deal making that shaped the early years of the city. Now there's a push to add the Kingston Hotel to the list of treasured historical sites.
The Kingo, one of the capital's popular waterholes, has been nominated to the ACT Heritage Council to be listed.
Read my story here.
A guide to cancer and friendship
![Pacifists Guide to Cancer, playing at the Canberra theatre.
Eva Alexander. Photo by Karleen Minney. Photo: Karleen Minney Pacifists Guide to Cancer, playing at the Canberra theatre.
Eva Alexander. Photo by Karleen Minney. Photo: Karleen Minney](/images/transform/v1/crop/frm/silverstone-ct-migration/b9e35f26-a9e7-49a1-89a3-e30ebcc7a56b/r0_0_2000_1330_w1200_h678_fmax.jpg)
There's a scene in A Pacifist's Guide to the War on Cancer, a quiet scene, a total contrast to the rock number about vulnerability which we've just witnessed.
Bryony Kimmings and Lara Veitch are perched atop scaffolding, reminiscing about a moment in their lives where everything changed.
It was about 2013, they'd joined forces to work on A Pacifist's Guide, now playing at the Canberra Theatre.
Karen Hardy has a preview.
Shopping mall or giant aquarium? Four metre jellyfish takes over
![Launch of The Jellyfish Bloom presented by the Canberra Centre and part of Enlighten. Large scale jellyfish sculptures that flash when they sense human interaction. (Artist Nicholas Tory.) Photo by Karleen Minney. Photo: karleen minney Launch of The Jellyfish Bloom presented by the Canberra Centre and part of Enlighten. Large scale jellyfish sculptures that flash when they sense human interaction. (Artist Nicholas Tory.) Photo by Karleen Minney. Photo: karleen minney](/images/transform/v1/crop/frm/silverstone-ct-migration/1974c387-be31-4329-a8fb-0361cabf397b/r0_0_2000_1330_w1200_h678_fmax.jpg)
We've had enormous glowing rabbits in the parliamentary triangle and illuminated angels in Reconciliation Place but this year it's all about jellyfish in shopping malls.
Enlighten Canberra officially lights up the capital from Friday night and for the first time ever the stunning lights and installations are travelling north of the lake into the city.
Bree Winchester has the story.
Giants thrash Collingwood in Canberra
![GWS Giants vs Collingwood Magpies: Nicholas Shipley looking to grab the ball. Photo: Dion Georgopoulos GWS Giants vs Collingwood Magpies: Nicholas Shipley looking to grab the ball. Photo: Dion Georgopoulos](/images/transform/v1/crop/frm/silverstone-ct-migration/1739bbc5-856e-4df4-a0c6-2b5251e4ccd6/r0_0_2000_1333_w1200_h678_fmax.jpg)
They were burned out in last year's finals race and already have fresh injury problems to contend with, but count out Greater Western Sydney at your peril.
It took some time for the new-look Giants to fire up but they rammed home the advantage late in a 14.12 (96) to 5.6 (36) win over the Collingwood Magpies at Manuka Oval on last night.
Caden Hamers has all the details.
Today's cartoon
![The Canberra Times editorial cartoon for Friday, March 2, 2018. Photo: David Pope
The Canberra Times editorial cartoon for Friday, March 2, 2018. Photo: David Pope](/images/transform/v1/crop/frm/silverstone-ct-migration/fde630f3-ebe7-48ac-9117-eb0fcf8ba3cc/r0_0_620_349_w1200_h678_fmax.jpg)