Politics
ACT
Labor frontbench to push for household limit on legal cannabis plants
The party will also flag plans to stop the drug being grown in community gardens, when the bill to legalise the drug returns to the ACT Legislative Assembly.
- by Katie Burgess
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Pill Testing
Drug deaths won't stop pill testing trials: Barr
Meanwhile one of the service's staunchest opponents has accepted an invitation to observe the trial.
- by Katie Burgess
Taxis
Taxi investors lobby for $76 million compensation
The Canberra Liberals promised money would be given back to investors who lost life savings over changes to taxi regulations.
- by Steve Evans
ACT government
ACT government directory hack discovered after data put up for sale
The ACT government's online directory was hacked late last year, but the government did not realise until internal information exposed in the breach was put up for sale online.
- by Daniel Burdon
Rates
ACT introduces land tax exemption for people entering nursing homes
A loophole that could have seen elderly Canberrans charged thousands of dollars in land tax when they moved into a nursing home has been closed.
- by Katie Burgess
Canberra
ACT government to pull in auditors over Evoenergy data reporting
ACT Climate Change Minister Shane Rattenbury has ordered an audit into Evoenergy's reporting of data about the territory's feed-in tariff scheme.
- by Daniel Burdon
Poker machines
Only 12 to go: ACT government almost achieves pokies reduction
A plan to reduce the number of gaming machines in the ACT to 4000 by 2020 is almost complete.
- by Sally Whyte
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Justice
Court finds it was wrong for government to take children, five years on
The mother attempted to be reunited with her children but the director-general fought to have the children remain with carers.
- by Kimberley Le Lievre
ACT government
ACT government debt jumps $115 million in six months
The ACT government is drawing on borrowings to fund some $86 million in new spending pledges over the next four years.
- by Daniel Burdon
Opinion
Drugs
No arrests, fines or stigma. Why we should legalise cannabis in Canberra
My first experience with cannabis did not result in the attention of law enforcement. For many, this is not the case.
- by Michael Pettersson
Renewables
ACT's greenhouse gas emissions falling, but transport emissions rising
The ACT may not meet its 2020 target if transport emissions continue to rise at present rates.
- by Katie Burgess