The ACT Greens have joined the Liberals and independent Fiona Carrick in effectively sinking Labor's unpopular $11 "volunteer tax" announced in Treasurer Chris Steel's first budget.
In his series of stories of remarkable Canberrans, DAVID TURNBULL meets Simon Wilkins who, with his three siblings, is honouring the memory of his parents' selfless work in the Pacific by helping educate young women.
"The ACT government has gone totally over the top in its draft Code of Practice for the Welfare of Dogs in the ACT… a deliberate distraction from the disaster that is the ACT budget," says political columnist MICHAEL MOORE.