An 81-year-old Curtin woman is facing court in September on a charge of culpable driving causing grievous bodily harm following a collision on Parkes Way in November that resulted in the loss of an unborn baby.
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.
“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.