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"Why do our white compatriots so easily forgive the British for not just stealing the Aboriginals’ homeland but then trying to wipe them out?" ROBERT MACKLIN asks the difficult question in his latest Gadfly column.
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In a celebration of community spirit, the Rotary Club of Belconnen's Sunday Trash and Treasure Market at Jamison will mark its 50th anniversary on September 8. KATARINA LLOYD JONES reports on what's kept it going all these years.
"If the government is unwilling to adjust land prices downwards, the budget forecasts of land supply are little more than wishful thinking." JON STANHOPE & KHALID AHMED say revenue estimates for land supply make no sense.
Political columnist MICHAEL MOORE says Paul Girrawah House's decision to stand in Kurrajong for his embryonic First Nation(s) Party has thrown a spanner into the works for Labor and the Greens.
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"Under the leadership and guidance of Thomas Emerson, the Independents for Canberra are merging as a serious force in the upcoming election," writes political columnist MICHAEL MOORE.
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Digital edition August 1
"Voting is a social responsibility. Australia’s 90 per cent plus turnout is, on average, 30 per cent higher than most countries… We should be proud that Australians take their social responsibility seriously," writes MICHAEL MOORE.
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"Following allegations of corruption and infiltration by underworld figures, the federal government has been quick to distance itself from the CFMEU. Not so in the ACT!" writes political columnist MICHAEL MOORE.
Political columnist ANDREW HUGHES predicts that 2024 is going to be different. He says: “It is likely two of the three party leaders in the Assembly now won’t be in 12 months. And the third. Maybe."
"As a dab hand at unfolding disasters, I can assure you the best thing to do is to forget what happened at the Canberra Institute of Technobabble and move on," Renewable Mistakes Minister Chris Catastrophe tells KEEPING UP THE ACT.
Four Canberra Grammar School students will show off their literary prowess at the 2024 Kids’ Lit Quiz World Final in Canberra on July 10. KATARINA LLOYD JONES has the story.
“It is appropriate that legal processes are available to anyone to be used for their protection, but it might be that the Integrity Commission legislation is too lenient in an area that seeks to root out corruption,” says MICHAEL MOORE.
"So much of what political communications has become about is making us believe fake is real. That what we are seeing, hearing and reading is the most accurate reflection of the world," writes political columnist ANDREW HUGHES.
"The Labor-Greens government in the ACT will be doing all it can to milk the pre-budget opportunity by announcing the amazing investments that they will make when re-elected." MICHAEL MOORE wearies of the spin around health.
"On a freezing night, the mother and baby, along with other mothers and babies, were left in a triage queue that snaked all the way to outside the door of the ED building." MICHAEL MOORE looks at the dark side of our 'liveable' city.
"The ACT’s hospital system has been deprived of the necessary beds and staff. Scarcity of resources is adversely impacting every part of the system." JON STANHOPE & KHALID AHMED revisit the state of public health.
Build apartments for families and they will come, says columnist MIKE QUIRK. Existing stock is dominated by one to two-bedroom apartments marketed to investors whose prime market is singles and childless couples who rent.
"For almost 60 years, the neat, red brick church has remained something of a divine secret in Queanbeyan. Most passers-by barely notice it". Yesterdays columnist NICHOLE OVERALL reveals all on Page 7.
Dining reviewer WENDY JOHNSON takes in three very different eating experiences in Bowral and wine columnist RICHARD CALVER's been to Beechworth.
"It's difficult to justify the ACT's excess taxation when debt's rising, the hospital system is the country's poorest and services for disadvantaged groups are the nation's worst," write JON STANHOPE & KHALID AHMED.
