There has been an 86 per cent increase in victims of crime applying for financial assistance, the largest annual increase since Victim Support ACT’s financial assistance scheme began seven years ago.
POLICE believe this man is believed to be responsible for more than $30,000 worth of fraudulent transactions at multiple Bunnings Warehouse stores in the ACT late last month.
Indigenous leader JULIE TONGS says the death of a young Aboriginal man in a prison far away in NSW, by his own hand, alone and sad has caused her 'unutterable distress' because it could have been prevented.
Canberra's drug decriminalisation laws come into effect at month's end, to the chagrin of the federal opposition leader. Here campaigner BILL BUSH says the lived experience elsewhere tells a different story.
"The government’s 'Hail Mary' approach to redevelopment relying on privately initiated, largely single-block redevelopment, has produced too many poor-quality redevelopments," writes MIKE QUIRK.