NSW poet Penny Lane has claimed one of Australia's richest poetry prizes for "Remembering Mary", which honours an outback pioneer, reports STEPHANIE GARDINER.
Former planner MIKE QUIRK says the ACT government’s virtue signalling, reflected in the simplistic 2018 Planning Strategy, needs to be replaced by a strategy based on the analysis of potential urban futures.
Clubs will be able to open their doors as refuges during extreme heat and smoke events under a new law passed by the ACT Legislative Assembly on Wednesday.
Master Builders ACT CEO Michael Hopkins says “the 2023/24 ACT budget has missed a major opportunity to boost support for local apprentices and trainees to create the ACT’s workforce of the future.”
"The only thing that is on the rise in the ACT is our debt, which will be $17.4 billion by 2026-27 and our rates which are also due to increase," says Acting Opposition Leader Jeremy Hanson.
A major Sydney crime figure with "a big target on his back" has been shot dead while sitting in his car near Sydney's busy Bondi Junction shopping precinct.