Canberra faces nine months of lane closures on way into the city
Nine months of continuous lane closures along Flemington Road start this Friday.
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Daniel Burdon
Daniel Burdon is a reporter for The Canberra Times
ACT's out of pocket hospital medical costs twice national average
Canberrans paying an average $258 for each patient in an ACT hospital.
Researchers find new way to deal with water contaminated with fire-fighting foam chemicals
Australian researchers may have found a solution to help deal with fire-fighting contamination water at Defence bases and other airports around the country.
Number of controlled drug approval applications, mostly opioids, fall 25 per cent in ACT since monitoring system upgrade
The number of approvals for doctors to issued 'controlled drugs' in the ACT, mainly opioid painkillers, has fallen some 25 per cent - or about 500 a month - since April last year.
Political chemistry
After pushing for a decade to make it easier to import chemicals – and getting what it wanted – why is the cosmetics industry changing its tune?
Drug companies pay doctors, nurses $9.5 million in six months for advice, event attendance
Drug companies paid doctors and other 'health professionals' at least $9.5 million in six months last year for their advice and to attend events.
ACT's rates of gastro-linked bacterial disease nearly 1.5 times national average, new data shows
The ACT's infection rate of a key bacteria that causes gastroenteritis, campylobacteriosis, was almost 1.5 times the national average last year, new data shows.`
National Gallery visitors numbers dip since parliamentary triangle paid parking introduced
The number of visitors heading to the National Gallery of Australia fell 10 per cent since paid parking began in Canberra's parliamentary triangle in October 2015, in a trend hitting other cultural institutions.
Lack of data for Canberra in AMA's public hospital report card, after ACT Health data failures
A key report comparing the performance of public hospitals between state and territory jurisdictions has been left without any local data, the latest flow-on effects of ACT Health's failure to provide data to two key federal agencies last month.
Fines for non-voters should be raised: ACT Auditor-General
Voters in the ACT could be forced to pay a $150 fine if they fail to cast their ballot at the next election.
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