Canberra

Wakefield Park raceway was closed last August after a court limited race days to four per month.

It's estimated the track contributed almost $17 million annually to the Goulburn economy.

It was sold in March and the new owners have plans to reopen the track by the end of the year.

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Four people have been injured after a miniature steam-engine train derailed in Canberra on Thursday morning.

ACT police said the injured people were taken to hospital after the derailment occurred at Cockington Green Gardens about 10am.

ACT residents are the most concerned in the country about being impacted by bushfires this season, yet they are the least likely to have taken steps to prepare, according to the latest NRMA Insurance claims data.

While 74 per cent of ACT residents are concerned about being affected by bushfires or grassfires this spring and summer, 32 per cent said they would know what to do if a bushfire threatened their home and only 20 per cent had taken steps to prepare and protect their homes over the past six months.

The Women's Legal Centre ACT and Victims Support ACT will deliver the service together.

It will provide specialised legal advice for complainants navigating the criminal justice system.

Advocates say recent years in the ACT have been difficult for people who have experienced sexual violence.

Wing – a subsidiary of a subsidiary of Google’s parent company, Alphabet – quietly ceased flying convenience items such as food, coffee and pharmacy items to Gungahlin suburbs at the end of August.

Wing’s Australian spokesperson Jesse Suskin told ABC radio that the company had decided to move away from leasing and running its own merchant-stocked warehouses to flying from large shopping centres in densely populated areas, such as south-east Queensland.