Two 14-year-old boys and a 17-year-old boy have been arrested over a series of burglaries, paywave offences and dangerous driving across Canberra.
Liberal Peter Cain wants to know the value of contracts awarded to unions or entities owned by unions since the 2016 ACT election. Minister Chris Steel won't tell him.
"There's no question that substantial quality infill is essential. However, this shouldn't be by strangling detached housing in greenfield areas, which denies the housing preferences of many households," writes former planner MIKE QUIRK.
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The Australian National Botanical Gardens is helping the ACT government to re-establish wild and self-sustaining populations of the Small Purple Pea in the region.
KEEPING UP THE ACT has some practical advice for the "swooping season".
There were four serious assaults in Civic at the weekend. Officer in Charge of City Station, Insp Stephen Ladd said this level of violent crime over one weekend was "incredibly disappointing".
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Distinguished Professor Genevieve Bell is the next vice-chancellor of the Australian National University and its first female leader.
Chief Minister Andrew Barr is overseas, leading an eight-day trade mission to the US with goal of presenting the ACT as a desirable location for tourism and a safe place to invest.
"If the Voice referendum is defeated it will not be because Australians lack goodwill towards indigenous people but because we want to remain united as a nation," writes MLA JEREMY HANSON in support of the "No" case on October 14.
On holiday, letter writer COLIN LYONS enjoyed terrific pubic transport across the world. Returning to Canberra was a "rude shock... to find the interval on all off-peak services, apart from the inter-city R routes, was 60 minutes."
