"When your model relies on what is effectively a toilet tax, it only reinforces one truth – in Canberra, it is literally crap for business," writes GWYN REES.
"It needs to be demonstrated why paying 75 per cent of the increase in land value from a lease change is not sufficient incentive to encourage the desired development outcomes," writes planning columnist MIKE QUIRK.
It was "concerning" that 15 people have been charged with drink driving and 32 others for drug driving on the Kings Highway between the ACT border and Batemans Bay this year, said NSW Police Highway Patrol Commander Insp Will Collins.
A 34-year-old man is facing the Supreme Court accused of sexually abusing two children under the guise of playing a game with them in Pearce in the early 2000s.
"It was a lightbulb moment to realise small children get it right. Christmas is when they're spoiled rotten by Santa, parents and other relatives… but the payoff is what’s under the tree." HUGH SELBY does some seasonal reminiscing.
"Santa" has written a special Christmas postcard to all his Labor MLAs at Trammany Hall, telling them to be good while daddy's away! KEEPING UP THE ACT's got a copy of it...