Fire ants could cost ‘half a covid’ every year
Analysts have offered a staggering new assessment of what Australia could lose to fire ants.
Environment
Adam Bandt is wedged by Greens’ overreach on emissions legislation, says political columnist MICHELLE GRATTAN.
Queanbeyan-Palerang Regional Council (QPRC) needs to have a bolder climate action plan to bring it in line with the NSW government's new emissions reduction target.
Cartoonist PAUL DORIN reckons the government's not moving fast enough on zero emissions...
Environment
ACT’s world first a small step to end nation’s fossil fuels
The ACT government is the first of its authority in the world to sign a treaty that aims to reduce fossil fuels.
Environment
Cartoon / Dose of Dorin
Carbon emissions are a matter of where you're looking at them, says cartoonist PAUL DORIN.
Environment
Why doesn’t the government understand open spaces?
"Why does the Chief Minister pour hundreds of thousands of taxpayers' dollars into the inner north through the City Renewal Authority to implement silly activation programs and pop-ups?," writes "Canberra Matters" columnist PAUL COSTIGAN.
Last week the National Capital Authority announced its long-awaited Tree Management Policy. So much ambition to do so much for the trees on national land. Yet there was an obvious lingering question, writes columnist PAUL COSTIGAN...
Canberra's inviting woodlands are becoming an important flight diversion for a species of parrot under threat, suffering one of Australia's worse predation rates.
A new Canberra office block that is housing around 1100 public servants is being powered by gas that directly contradicts ACT government policy on smart energy.
CULPRITS removing trees may have to fork tens of thousands of dollars in fines should…
"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.
"What of the animal terrorists we’ve imported, bred in their millions and set loose upon the native wildlife? What of the feral cats, foxes, cane toads, wild pigs, donkeys, horses and camels that ravage the land and its unique and fascinating inhabitants?" writes "The Gadfly columnist ROBERT MACKLIN.
Canberra households are set to be running on renewable energy by 2025.
"Wander through Commonwealth Park and you will see the grass is mown and there are a few works underway here and there, but there's so much not being done, so much neglect," bemoans "Canberra Matters" columnist PAUL COSTIGAN.
"Since the last Federal election Steggall and Haines have been getting calls from other electorates around Australia asking for advice on how they started their community movement," writes columnist ROBERT MACKLIN.
"In the most critical threat we have ever confronted – climate change – our federal politicians have thrown down their weapons and run from the battlefield," writes "The Gadfly" columnist ROBERT MACKLIN.
"The West Basin makeover by the ACT government is a huge national insult being carried out in the name of urban design," writes "Canberra Matters" columnist PAUL COSTIGAN
"The community council in partnership with the Fyshwick Traders are pointing out the obvious, that there is the potential for an increase in damaging air quality and noise," writes "Canberra Matters" columnist PAUL COSTIGAN.
![For graphic designer Tracy Hall, street art is like any artwork, her canvas has been swapped out for fences and plywood, her medium changing from watercolours to spray paint.
A Canberra resident for 13 years, Tracy has been a street and mural artist for the past five.
Her first exploration into grand-scale painting was at the Point Hut toilets in Banks five years ago. “They had just finished doing up the playground area for all the little kids and the words [of graffiti] that were coming up weren’t family friendly,” she says.
“So I ended up drawing this design and I got approval for the artwork.”
Many of Tracy’s time-consuming artworks are free, with thousands of her own dollars put into paint.
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