The Safer Families Levy is not transparent or effective in informing the community how the levy is being used, says Auditor-General Michael Harris in a damning report on how the annual rates impost was being managed.
"With the new human right, a temperature assessment must surely become obligatory for all DAs, so no Canberrans discover that temperatures in their neighbourhood have suddenly climbed to unhealthy levels," writes BEATRICE BODART-BAILEY.
A portmanteau – or blended word – used in reference to the perceived duopoly of Australia’s largest supermarket retailers Coles and Woolworths, is the ANU's Australian National Dictionary Centre's word of the year.
"Control the narrative. Forget the why. Just get something out there. Something people talk about. For whatever reason. Trump’s team was brilliant at this," writes political columnist ANDREW HUGHES.
"The Liberals seem determined to learn from their rejection by voters. I hope that they will cut their ties with the science deniers and work with all members of the Assembly," says letter writer NOEL BAXENDELL, of Holt.