Treasurer Spinocchio Steel won't shy away from spending what it takes to make Canberra the most progressive city in the world! It's KEEPING UP THE ACT.
A proposal to abandon the Westminster system of government in the ACT and replace it with a "government of territory unity" model has emerged from a public forum examining the future of self-government in Canberra.
A 45-year-old foreign national has been charged after allegedly filming women in change rooms at a clothing store in Woden.
Former ACT attorney-general Gordon Ramsay has been charged with seven additional offences relating to child abuse material and alleged sexual offending against a teenage boy.
The Ian Lindeman Memorial Winter Solstice Swim will celebrate its 10th anniversary this weekend, with hundreds of Canberrans expected to take part in the annual nude charity swim at Lake Burley Griffin.
Light rail services between Gungahlin Place and Alinga Street will be replaced by buses for the first weekend of July to allow construction work on Light Rail Stage 2A.
"The government has signalled that we are all best off as wage slaves depositing our compulsory 12 per cent into super and looking forward to a government-approved modest retirement," writes ROBERT McMAHON.
"With no macropods to eat it down, it is a firebomb just waiting to go off this coming summer. This is of concern to me, as my wife and I nearly lost our house up near Farrer Ridge in the 2003 event," says letter writer IAN MacDOUGALL.
A woman was taken to hospital after her vehicle crashed on the Tuggeranong Parkway on Saturday afternoon.
Save Big Splash is calling on the ACT Government to keep the sale of Big Splash transparent, hold any new owner to the full spirit of the Crown lease and make sure the ACT Aquatic Strategy accounts for the Macquarie water park’s future.
"If racial prejudice, hostility, stereotyping and assumptions can only ever travel in one direction, then we have ceased talking about racism as most ordinary Australians understand it," writes GWYN REES.
JULIE TONGS laments some of the 'concerning' local revelations in the latest report on justice from the Productivity Commission.
