The ACT Government has taken a formal step towards terminating the Crown lease for the Big Splash Water Park, notifying the lessee that the Territory Planning Authority is considering ending the agreement.
The Canberra Liberals say the ACT has again been short-changed on health funding, despite a fresh National Cabinet announcement that will deliver hundreds of millions of dollars to the territory over the next five years.
The original athlete accommodation block at the Australian Institute of Sport will be demolished to make way for a new world-class High Performance Testing and Training Centre as part of a major redevelopment of the Canberra campus.
The ACT government’s draft climate strategy has been slammed as "hollow words", with conservationists accusing Labor of falling behind while climate impacts worsen.
The Canberra Liberals have called on ACT Finance Minister Rachel Stephen-Smith to explain comments made on ABC radio that the government had improved the territory’s fiscal bottom line by half a billion dollars.
Master Builders ACT chief executive Anna Neelagama says Canberra is facing a second wave of inflation, warning pressure on households and builders is “not over”.