CONVICTED child sex offenders in the ACT will face tougher penalties and tighter reporting requirements under new laws to better protect the community. Attorney General Simon Corbell introduced the Crimes (Child Sex Offenders) Amendment Bill in February,…
NEW Legislation passed in the Assembly today will require ActewAGL to provide households with subsidised or free energy efficiency upgrades. About 70,000 households will be affected, providing ongoing energy bill savings of up to $300, per annum, by…
ACT households will cop a whopping 17 per cent increase in electricity bills from July 1 as recommended by the Independent Competition and Regulatory Commission. Minister for the Environment and Sustainable Development, Simon Corbell said…
HBA Consulting, led by Ron McLeod, will run an independent workplace audit at the Assembly. Mr McLeod, who most recently was one of three full-time Royal Commissioners established to inquire the Victorian Black Saturday bushfires,…
THE ACT greens are calling on the Government to stop stalling on the release of test results for last week’s fire at Mitchell. Greens spokesman for the environment Shane Rattenbury says: “It’s now been a…
ACT Liberal arts spokesperson VICKI DUNNE reminds the ANU what the School of Music means to Canberra
Music student ROHAN MOORE, of Save Our SOM, says there have been no wins for the School of Music
CANBERRA’S musical heavyweights are throwing a free concert for the ACT community tonight to show the ANU what they can do. Organiser of the concert, pianist and masters student at the university, Andrew Rumsey, told…
THE ACT Division of the National Tertiary Education Union has condemned today’s announcement by the ANU of a possible fund-raising consortium as a case of exploiting community goodwill. NTEU said it was “a useful distraction…
