Lakeside a quagmire for ACT government initiatives
There are no signs around West Basin warning of quicksand but some may be in order after the National Capital Authority gave the Westside Container Village its marching orders on Thursday.
There are no signs around West Basin warning of quicksand but some may be in order after the National Capital Authority gave the Westside Container Village its marching orders on Thursday.
If the ACT is so "lucky" in terms of average incomes, the obvious question is "Why aren't we rich?"
For evidence that Donald Trump's election has substantially altered the landscape in America as well as abroad it was hard to go past Bill Shorten's vow on Tuesday that Labor would toughen up on visas for skilled foreign workers.
John Barilaro's election as NSW Nationals Party leader on Tuesday was unopposed, his colleagues having decided that rivalry and infighting might be counter-productive at this low point in the party's political fortunes.
In the echo chamber of flattery and self-congratulation that frequently passes for government in Australia, Malcolm Turnbull and Peter Dutton have being hailed in certain quarters for their "statesman-like" asylum seeker resettlement plan.
Steven Freeman's death in custody warrants a thorough response from the ACT government.
The South Jerrabomberra development seems unlikely unless the ACT and NSW government can reach agreement soon.
After a "warm and constructive" chat with America's president-elect on Thursday, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull declared Donald Trump [was] a "businessman, a deal maker, and he will, I have no doubt, view the world in a very practical and pragmatic way".
The ''greatest democracy in the world'' doesn't do elections very well.
It would be no exaggeration to claim that tens of millions of Americans (as well as hundreds of millions of people worldwide who count themselves as friends of the United States) have been left shocked, bewildered and upset by Donald Trump's win in the 2016 presidential race.
Given the problematic nature of the QUT case and the unreasonable attempts to pursue Bill Leak, the thorough review outlined by Mr Brandis is timely and necessary.
The important question after the census and myGov problems is whether the government is learning from its failures.
The ACT government must opt-in to the national compensation scheme for victims of child sex abuse.
If ever there was an electricity generator ready for the knacker's yard, it was the Hazelwood coal-fired power station.
With light rail here to stay, the opposition has to hold the government accountable on its promise to make it work.
Mrs Clinton's once comfortable lead over Mr Trump in the opinion polls has evaporated.
In electing 13 women to the new 25-member Legislative Assembly last month, voters did more than just reaffirm their reputation as political and social trendsetters.
The Greens/ Labor power-sharing agreement revealed on Monday showed every sign of having been drawn up by negotiators focused more on the expedient than on the possible.
Turnbull needs to give his errant ministers a lesson in Westminster system 101.
It's time for the ACT government to deal with the issue of problem gambling.
To suggest that the tragic accident at the Dreamworld amusement park on the Gold Coast on Tuesday has had a visceral impact on people across Australia is no exaggeration.
If Federal public servants have time to sit around making trivial, and in some cases offensive, edits to Wikipedia then they clearly need to be given some meaningful work to do.
Public quarrels of the "he said, no I didn't " variety are rarely edifying, still less so when they involve the Commonwealth's first and second law officers.
Impartial observers of ACT politics are likely to view Alistair Coe's elevation as the new leader of the Canberra Liberals as counter-intuitive
There's an expectation that a bigger Assembly will mean better governance.
It's time to get on with business now that the final votes have been counted.
The law of unintended consequences means many Canberrans on fixed incomes now need to be insulated from the impact of recent and future rate rises.
Abbott is right; it would be crazy to water down the gun laws to appease Leyonhjelm.
Addressing Congress in October 8, 1974, President Gerald Ford declared that inflation was "public enemy No 1", and he exhorted fellow Americans to reduce their spending and consumption so that unemployment might be eased.
We know from repeated accounts of everyday existence at the refugee processing centres on Manus and Nauru islands that the detainees' lot there is a wretched one.