The solution to tempering the extra-curricular curiosity of jurors was to treat them as criminals. The crime of a 'Rattenbury' was born. HUGH SELBY says the new legislation is "farcical, doomed to ridicule and contempt".
KEEPING UP THE ACT's having a little flutter on RattsLotto, where they say if you want to blow your dough, they won't say no!
Attorney-General Shane Rattenbury has been accused of behaving improperly in the selection of the new ACT director of public prosecutions. On the facts so far, HUGH SELBY says no, he hasn't.
After all the stadiums he's promised us, King Andrew is holed up in Tramalot Castle, irritated by the noise of ungrateful peasants. At least that's what KEEPING UP THE ACT is telling us.
"The response of the ACT government to the allegations concerning a member of the Assembly, including strident demands he resign, lacked any semblance of a commitment to his right to the presumption of innocence," writes JON STANHOPE.
ACT Greens Leader Shane Rattenbury has issued a "detailed account" around the events leading to the resignation from the Assembly of Johnathan Davis on Sunday evening.
Liberal leader Elizabeth Lee says there are still questions for Shane Rattenbury, despite the resignation of Greens MLA Johnathan Davis from the Assembly and the party.
"If he is fair dinkum, then Rattenbury will amend his new law to have a single judge decide if there are sufficient grounds to have the territory properly fund those preparing a 'second appeal' for a prisoner," writes HUGH SELBY.
The wrong ones. Darling, we're the wrong ones. And wrong ones Shouldn't be afraid... It's KEEPING UP THE ACT!
The ACT will fall into line with the rest of Australia by allowing majority verdicts in trials and creating a new offence for juror misconduct.
Indigenous leader JULIE TONGS says the death of a young Aboriginal man in a prison far away in NSW, by his own hand, alone and sad has caused her 'unutterable distress' because it could have been prevented.
Canberra's Planning Overlord has a message for whiny space seekers wanting to keep a roof over their heads and other last-century comforts...
Welcome to Shane Rattenbury's "Believe it or Else!", where the truth is stranger than fiction!
Play spot the difference as Shane and Andrew plot some Sofronoff wriggling.
The ACT Attorney-General, Shane Rattenbury, said in a statement on Sunday that he and Shane Drumgold discussed the Sofronoff report and both agreed that his position was no longer tenable, reports MICHELLE GRATTAN.
The Canberra Liberals are calling out Attorney-General Shane Rattenbury for going "missing in action" amidst the leaking of the Sofronoff Report.
This week, ACT politicians are forced to live in one of their own high-density apartments in the wilds of Casey... it's KEEPING UP THE ACT!
This week, ACT politicians are forced to live in one of their own high-density apartments in the wilds of Casey... it's KEEPING UP THE ACT!
"The ACT government is, of course, acutely aware of these dire outcomes and obviously conscious of the fact that when it comes to locking up Aboriginal peoples, we Canberrans are in a class of our own," writes JON STANHOPE.
