"The so-called cost-of-living announcements made by Andrew Barr just highlight how out of touch he is with no acknowledgement of how tough Canberrans are doing it at the moment," says Elizabeth Lee..
Master Builders CEO Michael Hopkins says many ACT construction businesses will re-assess the viability of their businesses after reading the ACT government is only budgeting for $57 million of new capital works over the next five years.
The ACT's budget missed the mark for business, according to the Canberra Business Chamber.
Greens leader and ACT government minister Shane Rattenbury says the government's budget needs to go further, faster to address the urgent challenges facing the Canberra community.
The application to suppress the findings of the ACT Integrity Commission's investigation into CIT contracts has been dismissed by the Supreme Court.
Hands Across Canberra is depositing itself in a bank as Community Bank Canberra and Regions has offered the local charity office space in Deakin.
Here are today’s “CityNews” headlines.
Ninety motorbikes have been stolen in the ACT so far this year and police are warning the number is still on the rise after the number of bike thefts almost doubled between 2022 (98) and 2023 (189).
The ACT government will make a one-off $250 payment to apprentices and trainees in its cost-of-living concessions in the 2024-25 budget.
On the day the Chief Minister delivers the ACT budget for the year ahead, Opposition Leader Elizabeth Lee has pointed to Andrew Barr's 150 broken promises over 13 years and his never having ever delivered a surplus.
"The ACT shows disregard for actual public service delivery. No wonder Canberrans throw up our hands and put up with dirty, litter-strewn, vandalised roads, parks and infrastructure," says letter writer G NIELSEN.
Musical theatre reviewer BILL STEPHENS reflects on Canberra's untiring love of the show Chicago.
![Evie Hudson is a woman with amnesia, who forgets the last 13 years. Piecing her life back together, she navigates the harsh realities of coercive control.
Evie is the leading character in local author @emmagreyauthor's second novel Pictures of You.
Her debut book, The Last Love Note, sold more than 100,000 books worldwide within a few months of being published last year.
“I think that using amnesia really helped [show the effects of coercive control] because she had that sense of being completely lost in her own life,” Emma says of her new work of fiction.
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