Paul Costigan is a commentator on cultural and urban matters. There are more of his columns at citynews.com.au
"Minister Vassarotti is yet to understand the importance of ensuring that future generations should be able to enjoy what she did as a child in this city in a landscape. The clock is ticking loudly on her credibility..." writes "Canberra Matters" columnist PAUL COSTIGAN.
"As is now the norm, almost everywhere across Canberra, what gets considered, and usually approved,…
"When Canberra city needs every piece of biodiversity and green infrastructure to deal with the coming climate crisis, how on earth did anyone at the War Memorial think it was okay to let the bulldozers loose on so many trees. In the end this could be 100 or more trees that will go," writes "Canberra Matters" columnist PAUL COSTIGAN.
"Have a look at the new suburbs being built. There’s the reality of just how much our bureaucratic planners have learnt from the abundance of evidence of what to do and what not to do. They have learnt nothing!" writes "Canberra Matters" columnist PAUL COSTIGAN.
"The chainsaw gang being allowed to chop down so many trees at the Yarralumla dog park is beyond unacceptable – except maybe to those comfortably ensconced within this Labor/Greens coalition," says "Canberra Matters" columnist PAUL COSTIGAN.
"Just how much money can one agency spend on pop-ups, temporary thingys and activation events that deliver nothing substantial when so much of the urban infrastructure is being run down?" asks "Canberra Matters" columnist PAUL COSTIGAN.
"The ACT Greens need to stop talking. They need to stop using spin and to cease producing stuff with loads of busy words. They need to do something," says "Canberra Matters" columnist PAUL COSTIGAN.
"At the core of the Coolo Park fiasco is how an unresponsive bureaucracy controls the ACT’s politicians at the expense of common sense, community aspirations and the future of this city in a landscape," writes "Canberra Matters" columnist PAUL COSTIGAN.
"Anything in public hands is seen by 21st century governments as land banks for development… locally such dubious practices are now entrenched as building the new normal within the ACT Labor/Greens coalition," writes "Canberra Matters" columnist PAUL COSTIGAN.
"With 24 apartment towers and about 10,000 residents due to appear in the Woden Town Centre, this government has not prepared the area for this new high-rise suburb," writes "Canberra Matters" columnist PAUL COSTIGAN.
"Right from the get-go, Dickson residents did not oppose the concept of a new supermarket – they welcomed it. The problem was that the original proposals ignored many planning laws," writes "Canberra Matters" columnist PAUL COSTIGAN.
"Canberra Matters" columnist PAUL COSTIGAN draws attention to some quiet bureaucratic mischief around the heritage values of lake Burley Griffin.
![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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