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Grattan / Super funds targeted in Shorten’s housing affordability package

LABOR will promise to ban direct borrowing by self-managed superannuation funds, as part of a housing affordability policy released on Friday to pre-empt the government’s package in next month’s budget. This “limited recourse borrowing” – […]

Grattan on Friday / The Turnbull government begins to wash its face

FINALLY – though who knows for how long – we see signs of the Turnbull government pulling up its socks. Or, to adapt a phrase often used by Scott Morrison, it started to “wash its […]

Grattan / Hockey shouted down in 'conversation' about access to super for houses

By Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra JOE Hockey is the sort of guy who often leaps before looking too hard. This thought is particularly brought to mind by two completely different current manifestations of “Hockeyism”. […]

Grattan / Mining tax deal ticks off a commitment in time for the birthday

By Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra WITH its first anniversary on Sunday, the Abbott government wants to trumpet achievements. Ministers have been asked to put forward what they’ve done in their portfolios for airing in […]

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Have you seen Natalie?

by CityNews

NATALIE Richardson has been reported missing after she was last seen on Monday, April 23, morning in Curtin. Natalie, 42, is described as being Caucasian in appearance, approximately 150-160cm tall, of thin build, with blue […]

Nests, wasps and bites on the rise in the ACT

by CityNews

AN extraordinarily large European wasp nest in McKellar is the highlight in a record year of confirmed nests in the ACT. The McKellar nest measured 1.4 metres long, 80 centimetres high and 50 centimetres wide […]

Sally Richards, Jackson West and Sandor Collins

Twelve years on and Jackson’s still delivering

by Danielle Nohra

WHEN JACKmail, a business that Sally Richards set up for her profoundly disabled son, Jackson West, hit two years she couldn’t believe it and now, it’s in its twelfth year, she’s amazed. Sally, 65, of […]

Arts / Around the galleries

by Helen Musa

Arts editor HELEN MUSA shares Canberra’s newest gallery openings

Police swoop on drug suspects across Canberra

by CityNews

COPS and dogs executed 15 search warrants in Canberra as anti-drug Operation Tribulation swooped over the weekend. During the operation police seized: more than $100,000 in cash; six vehicles including two Ford Rangers, a Dodge Ram […]

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Grattan / Hockey shouted down in 'conversation' about access to super for houses

Grattan / Mining tax deal ticks off a commitment in time for the birthday

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Have you seen Natalie?

Nests, wasps and bites on the rise in the ACT

Twelve years on and Jackson’s still delivering

Arts / Around the galleries

Police swoop on drug suspects across Canberra

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