Canberra remains the country's most unaffordable housing market, with sellers asking around $538,000 more than what buyers are searching for, new Domain research shows.
Canberrans are spending an average $1640.08 a year keeping fit, the highest of any Australian capital, according to new research that ranks Canberra the country's least fitness-friendly city.
The ACT Greens say there will be no new confidence and supply agreement with the Labor government for the remainder of the term after negotiations failed to produce firm commitments on housing, libraries, climate and other priorities.
Canberra Liberals Leader Mark Parton will move to censure City Services Minister Tara Cheyne today over the closure of libraries on Sundays and the bungled introduction of camera-detected seatbelt fines.
Independent Kurrajong MLA Thomas Emerson will ask the Legislative Assembly today to back a community campaign to renovate 20 vacant public housing properties and have tenants moved in by Christmas.
Craft writer MEREDITH HINCHLIFFE traces the laborious renovation of the feted, though fated, Hanna Cabinet and the role a Canberra company had in saving it after being damaged by floodwater.
Craft writer MEREDITH HINCHLIFFE traces the laborious renovation of the feted, though fated, Hanna Cabinet and the role a Canberra company had in saving it after being damaged by floodwater.
Powerlifter Siobhan Engeler’s nails and singlet will be green and gold when she steps on to the international platform, but her trademark purple hair is staying put. She speaks to DHWANI PATEK from Canada.
The ACT Greens are pushing for 10 per cent of homes at the proposed Thoroughbred Park redevelopment to be public housing, but the Property Council warns the requirement could make projects less viable.
Big Splash is unlikely to reopen by its November 1 deadline after an attempt to sell the Macquarie aquatic facility failed, prompting the ACT government to commission an options analysis into its future.