The Liberals have made headlines about not supporting the tram to Woden.These statements have been the catalyst for media interviews over the New Year featuring the usual suspects – Barr, Steel and Rattenbury, writes PAUL COSTIGAN.
Paul Costigan
Paul Costigan is a commentator on cultural and urban matters. There are more of his columns at citynews.com.au
"The 'Active Travel' stuff needs to be binned. Instead, more needs to be allocated to fixing footpaths, building more dedicated cycle paths and to improving the bus networks," writes "Canberra Matters" columnist PAUL COSTIGAN.
Someone in the ACT Planning Directorate thought it a great idea to get their planning minister to launch yet another round of consultations on the future of Civic and the surrounding areas – on December 4, writes columnist PAUL COSTIGAN.
"There must have been an agreement that the Labor federal members would remain silent or at least not be critical of whatever the ACT government was doing – no matter how scandalous and outrageous," writes columnist PAUL COSTIGAN.
"Community councils want to work with the government to achieve wonderful things for this city. This has been almost impossible in 2022 as wonderful things are not what this ACT government does," laments columnist PAUL COSTIGAN.
"For some reason, Steel’s spin writers neglected to provide the net statistics on the state of trees in Canberra in 2022. There was no reality check," writes "Canberra Matters" columnist PAUL COSTIGAN.
"Canberra Matters" columnist PAUL COSTIGAN was shocked by the style of the official criticisms of Ainslie residents who had objected to the redevelopment of the community site on the corner block next to Bill Pye Park in Ainslie.
"The Liberals crafted polite statements when Housing ACT tenants were to be booted from their homes… There was a lack of passion by the Liberals in response to those heartless evictions," writes "Canberra Matters" columnist PAUL COSTIGAN.
ACT government planners are about to get what they always wished for – a planning system that allows them to make decisions without dealing with pesky residents and to be less accountable to anyone but themselves, writes PAUL COSTIGAN.
"On the weekend, immediate and nearby streets are packed with cars crammed into any available space… Then there’s the obvious question – where’s the toilets? There aren’t any," writes PAUL COSTIGAN. Welcome to the new Coombs playground.
"Canberra Matters" columnist PAUL COSTIGAN begins a series of several online case studies of how the elected ACT government has lost track of reality.
Looking at the creative political sign in front of the Kingston Glass Workshop in October, the message was clear. We need to get our act together otherwise, just as with the koalas, we are stuffed, writes columnist PAUL COSTIGAN.
