"Since 2012-13 the ACT has attained a reputation as a laggard, the worst performing jurisdiction in Australia, a status that is currently reflected in the forward estimates." More ACT budget revelations from JON STANHOPE & KHALID AHMED.
"The ACT government’s budget forecasts are simply not credible – and, indeed, they have not been credible for almost a decade," write JON STANHOPE & KHALID AHMED.
The ACT's latest budget will show the positive impact of large-scale renewable energy contracts on power bills.
Annual interest costs on ACT government debt will hit $517 million in 2025-26. That's more than the government spends on environmental protection, the police and mental health services combined, say JON STANHOPE and KHALID AHMED.
The Canberra Liberals say the Chief Minister is “not being upfront with Canberrans” after pointing to ABS data which shows the ACT is the only Australian jurisdiction that didn't record a surplus in the seven years before the pandemic.
The chief minister was an embarrassment to his position with a performance on radio that "Seven Days" columnist IAN MEIKLE – not a psychologist – says gave a startling insight into a man realising perhaps the spin is coming unstuck.
The ACT budget will fund an additional 100 full-time equivalent (FTE) public health jobs in 2022-23, growing to more than 170 in 2023-24
Funding of $850,000 has been allocated in the 2022-23 ACT Budget to progress the Big Canberra Battery project.
A "home-like" palliative care respite facility in Canberra will receive $2.59 million in funding in the upcoming ACT budget.
Five dangerous Canberra intersections will be upgraded with $24 million in funding set aside in the upcoming ACT budget.
"A quick look at social media reflects the anger felt by 'Ken Behrens' in the fading hope of home ownership with so little land being made available and prices skyrocketing," writes political columnist MICHAEL MOORE.
Another burst of smoke, mirrors, spin and – POOF! – the ACT Budget appears. In deficit, of course. It's another "Seven Days" with IAN MEIKLE
THE ACT, already more than $4 billion in debt, will be battered with nearly another billion dollars more in this financial year, taking the total debt to $5.7 billion and to $9.6 billion by 2024-25.
SPENDING on the industries that drive employment growth in the ACT was fundamental to economic recovery, says Chief Minister Andrew Barr.
THE ACT Budget promises another 1200 homes for Housing ACT tenants.
The ACT Budget commits the government to continuing to driving the diversification of Canberra’s economy through investment attraction and facilitation of major projects.
"The ACT Budget is at its weakest – weaker even than at the time of the Global Financial Crisis. Net debt is increasing at an unsustainable rate of 23 per cent a year... or by more than $1 million a day for four years," writes JON STANHOPE
CHIEF Minister Andrew Barr's Budget commitments to provide 15 more school psychologists, new schools and…
AS part of the 2018-19 Budget, the ACT government says it will be investing about…
