"The payment to UnionsACT may be small beer, but when combined with the auditor-general’s report into the government’s Land Development Agency, it all adds to the sense of sleaze at the edges."
"The tram seems the one great issue dividing the parties; and it was not a good week for the light-rail advocates," writes Seven Days columnist ROBERT MACKLIN
"ACT Lib Leader Jeremy Hanson has pledged to support 100 per cent clean power by…
"The biggest election issue, it seems, is the cost of the Gungahlin light rail but…
"Immigration Minister Peter Dutton's announcement that Manus would be closed down raised more issues than he cared to address," writes Seven Days columnist ROBERT MACKLIN
"Lib Leader Jeremy Hanson turned up the heat on the Barr-Rattenbury government with his promise to use the money they would spend on light rail for a new $395 million hospital," writes Seven Days columnist ROBERT MACKLIN
"Turnbull's demand that bank CEOs front a House of Reps committee to explain themselves once…
"The UN role was always Rudd's ultimate ambition… so when Turnbull delivered the fatal blow Rudd would have been utterly devastated. But don’t write him off just yet," writes Seven Days columnist ROBERT MACKLIN
THE latest plan to link Sydney and Melbourne with a very fast train might sound…
"Zed Seselja made an immediate impact with a sensible response to the overly-excited fears of a TV hostess about terrorism and a welcome pledge not to block same-sex marriage legislation," writes columnist ROBERT MACKLIN
"Diminutive Brendan Smyth did little to enhance his stature with his shock departure from the Lib team to become Barr’s ‘Commissioner for International Engagement'," writes Seven Days columnist ROBERT MACKLIN
"Despite the doomsayers, it seems a wafer-thin majority can actually make for good, productive government," writes Seven Days columnist ROBERT MACKLIN
