The ACT Government has committed to establish a Board of Inquiry, effectively a royal commission, to investigate systemic issues surrounding Aboriginal deaths in the Alexander Maconochie Centre.
The ACT government will spend $4.5 million over four years to try and prevent the extinction of the endangered Canberra Grassland Earless Dragon.
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ROD HENSHAW catches up with a Canberra character, the irrepressible Pat Seears, these days the high-flying king of workwear, but it wasn't always like this…
This week KEEPING UP THE ACT interviews Canberrans about their satisfaction with the ACT government... it's not pretty.
Independent MLA Thomas Emerson will bring a motion to the ACT Legislative Assembly backing community calls for the ACT government to launch a Board of Inquiry into the treatment of Aboriginal people in the AMC.
Prison staff response to a suspected opioid overdose at the Alexander Maconochie Centre was "below optimal", given the life-threatening nature of the incident, according to a review by the ACT’s Custodial Inspector, Rebecca Minty.
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A 53-year-old drunk driver – four times over the legal limit – hit a light pole as police pursued his grey Holden Captiva SUV on Horse Park Drive, Throsby, on Friday evening.
"The community has little trust in decisions of the current planning authority despite its extraordinarily laborious internal processes now involving four stages of assessment of DAs with separate officers for each," says RICHARD JOHNSTON.
LEELA ROSS and others take umbrage at an earlier letter calling on the Canberra Jewish community to justify the actions of the Israeli government in Gaza.
Two wanted men, 21-year-old Jamie Barry and 29-year-old Elliot Smith-Benzie are urgently being sought by police.
