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ACT QT: Added insulation

CityNews - February 11, 2010

Today was all about the installation of insulation in our nation's capital.

John Hargreaves: If you can’t run it, wreck it

CityNews - December 12, 2010

The last three sitting days of the Legislative Assembly for 2010 have seen the Opposition behaving as they have all year – Opposition for opposition sake.

As it stands, there have been 19 divisions in the Assembly over the last two and a half days, and the Opposition have lost all of them.

This belligerent approach from the Opposition is for no apparent reason and serves no purpose other than to waste the time of the hardworking assembly staff, and is an attempt at political points scoring.

ACT QT: Liberals laughing, leadership spills

CityNews - August 25, 2010

Who are the suits sitting in the chamber and what have they done with my beloved Opposition?

Nation’s capital city or a big suburb?

CityNews - January 11, 2011

Urban Planner Greg Mews writes:

Last weekend I returned from my holiday break and caught myself staring at a lonely but nicely spray painted graffiti on the walkway that left me thinking all the way home. How would I define the place I live in to my friends from overseas?

Australia forms Government, ACT Assembly learn about Palestine

CityNews - September 7, 2010

Finally the nation can breathe out, we have a Government. No need to fear dissent into Somalia-like anarchy or start looking for Mad Max. There is someone in charge and her name is Julia.

Time to flip coins for parking misery

Mark Parton - November 16, 2011

MARK PARTON enjoys a moment of guilty pleasure at not copping a parking fine. Sad, isn’t it?

Floriade: More impressive from the sky

CityNews - September 14, 2010

Friday morning bright and early, bare-legged ladies in lipstick and boots sipped pink champagne from overflowing trays, while suited-up gents swung umbrellas and made...

Letters to the editor: Bring back Green Square grass

CityNews - August 7, 2013

Bring back the Green Square grass I’M emailing you in my capacity as reader of your fine magazine and one-time regular visitor of Green Square...

A toast to Jon Stanhope!

CityNews - October 12, 2010

How many wedding celebrations include a toast to the Chief Minister?

Seven Days: Welcome to liveable, unaffordable Canberra

Robert Macklin - March 12, 2014

“Once you tell the world, you encourage everyone to come here and presto! It’s a crowded and you can’t park anywhere."

Shane Rattenbury: Can people power make a difference?

CityNews - October 13, 2010

Speaker of the ACT Legislative Assembly and Greens Climate Change spokesperson Shane Rattenbury writes: It is often said the public have a low tolerance for many...

Capital choices

CityNews - October 28, 2010

Yes, Canberra is a public service town and the public service provides meaningful and interesting work for many, but there are alternatives!

ACT Greens at the crossroads

CityNews - November 24, 2010

Andrew Hughes, lecturer at the School of Management, Marketing and International Business at the ANU, writes:
To be a viable alternative government, the ACT Greens need to start pulling their socks up and get to work on the areas where the major parties have the market to themselves.

Suicide, we can do better

CityNews - December 1, 2010

At age 22, I gave the eulogy at the funeral of my friend Andrew McIntosh, who had taken his own life. It was one of the hardest things I had ever had to do.