The search for the remains of slain mother Samantha Murphy has been narrowed to an area 11km from her home town of Ballarat as police act on fresh intelligence.
The total cost for 1.7 kilometres of light rail stage 2A will cost more than $1.46 billion, based on answers from the Chief Minister to the Assembly's Budget Review Committee.
Welcome to the ACT where the pagans turf out the Catholic health services and the Catholics turf out the pagan waste services! It's KEEPING UP THE ACT.
With ACT debt repayments heading towards $2 million a day, Opposition Leader Elizabeth Lee wants see the businesses cases for the $8.5 billion in infrastructure promises from the chief minister.
"It's well and truly time that our parliaments, state and federal, caught up with other important sectors in our nation that have sensibly made their workplaces alcohol-free zones," writes ROSS FITZGERALD.
All up (build plus 20 years operations and maintenance), light rail Stage 2 to Woden will be about $5.2 billion ($1.7 billion for 2A and $3.5 billion for 2B. Hair-raising stuff, says letter writer MAX FLINT.