The ACT is on track for its worst year of housing approvals in nearly two decades, with new data showing little improvement from a record-low April.
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In a column headed "ACT Labor is bankrupting Canberra", AFR economics editor John Kehoe says federal taxpayers are on notice because they could end up footing the bill for the ACT government's "incompetence and profligacy".
Qantas was showing off its first Airbus A321 jet by flying at a lower level over Crookwell and Taralga as it arrived in Sydney on Wednesday morning, reports SCOTT MAYMAN.
Who's to blame for the nation-leading failure of ACT finances? Certainly not former treasurer Andrew Barr. Just ask him. KEEPING UP THE ACT listened in.
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A 26-year-old NSW man is the third person to be charged in relation to the shooting of a man in North Lyneham in March.
“In the current cost of living crisis, individual households and businesses are having to tighten their belts to deal with rising costs – and it’s time the government looked seriously at doing the same," says Chamber boss Greg Harford.
Treasurer Chris Steel has bowed to pressure from the Greens and reduced the Labor government's threatened $250 annual "health levy" to $100 this year, but only for residential and rural property ratepayers.
The ACT government seems to think money grows on trees, says letter writer MURRAY MAY in his reaction to the latest ACT budget: "The whole thing is a debacle, with the lack of foresight and prudent financial management very evident."
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ACT taxpayers should be questioning the absence of Chief Minister Andrew Barr's third overseas trip in the last four months, just days after his government delivered a horror budget for Canberrans, says Opposition Leader Leanne Castley.
