Canberra Raiders News

Fri, 4th September, 2026, 14:40 AEST
'Clear focus': Raiders' chance to create finals history
The Canberra Raiders aim for their first NRLW finals appearance, needing a win against the Parramatta Eels to secure their spot.
The Canberra Times
Win and you're in. For the first time in club history.
That's the simple equation facing the Canberra Raiders as they close in on a historic first appearance in the NRLW finals.
If they beat the Parramatta Eels at Canberra Stadium on Sunday night then they're all but certain to make the top six.
It would then take a massive turnaround in points differential in the final round of the regular season for the Green Machine to miss out on the play-offs.
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Fri, 4th September, 2026, 5:58 AEST
Mega gallery: 100 times Canberra's champions were made
Community sport has been vital in Canberra's development, with teams achieving national success and the media covering their journeys.
The Canberra Times
Sport brought together the people making their lives in the small town that was early Canberra. And 100 years on, community sport remains central to so many people's lives.
As the city grew, so too did its ambition for success on the national and international stage. In the early 1980s, the Cannons gave us a taste of national league success. And before long the Raiders joined the party, with the first of their three premierships in 1989.
The ACT Brumbies, Capitals, Canberra United and the Cavalry are some of the top-flight teams who have tasted victory. And The Canberra Times has been there to record all the highs and the lows.
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Fri, 4th September, 2026, 5:15 AEST
Is Hudson Young's 'market value' whatever a club is willing to pay? Not in the NRL
Hudson Young discusses his playing future after receiving permission to negotiate with the PNG Chiefs while recovering from injury.
The Sydney Morning Herald
After hobbling down the blue carpet that led to the Brad Fittler Medal presentation on Monday night, Hudson Young stopped to address a media scrum that had assembled to quiz him about his playing future.
Canberra had granted Young, who was still wearing a moon boot after rupturing his Achilles tendon in July, early permission to negotiate with the PNG Chiefs. The plan was for Young, once he had sufficiently recovered to fly to Port Moresby, to decide whether to join the NRL's 19th team or accept the three-year, $3.3 million contract with the Raiders.
"It's one of those things, I just want to see [PNG] for myself first," Young said at the time.
"There's been a lot of media around it and certain players going over there and saying certain things, so I just want to go over there and make the decision myself on what I feel."
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'Clear focus': Raiders' chance to create finals history

Mega gallery: 100 times Canberra's champions were made

Is Hudson Young's 'market value' whatever a club is willing to pay? Not in the NRL

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