Police issued 30 infringement notices, as well as conducting more than 100 alcohol screenings and two roadside drug tests in a targeted operation in school zones in Tuggeranong and Gungahlin on Tuesday and Wednesday.
The ACT government's urban forest strategy is "at risk" and future planting targets have been reduced because the program lacks appropriate planning, says the auditor-general.
"We have a long history of problems with the grog. Before Australia became a nation in 1901, in colonial parliaments drunken behaviour by members was largely tolerated," writes ROSS FITZGERALD.
NOEL BEDDOE continues his occasional series reminding us why Canberra is the most beautiful place to live… this time he visits Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve.