New ABS building approval and finance data reveals the size of the challenge ahead for the ACT to deliver the local government’s commitments under the National Housing Accord, says Michael Hopkins.
"There's no question that substantial quality infill is essential. However, this shouldn't be by strangling detached housing in greenfield areas, which denies the housing preferences of many households," writes former planner MIKE QUIRK.
UPDATE: The Bureau of Meteorology has cancelled the severe weather warning, saying severe thunderstorms are no longer affecting Canberra and Queanbeyan. The immediate threat of severe thunderstorms has passed.
A 25-year-old Waramanga man with a suspended licence failed to stop for police before colliding with a residential building in Gungahlin on Tuesday afternoon.
Sad childhood memories have inspired Canberra Hospital ophthalmologist Dr Thomas Rogerson to head up an important humanitarian effort looking at the eyesight of children in Laos, reports ROD HENSHAW.
"Many progressive Canberrans have asked me how they can virtue-signal that they are down with all the black folk they generally have nothing to do with," writes RACIAL GUBBA-GAMMON, ACT Minister for Indigenous Affirmations.