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.
Having left the baffling chaos of the tally room I’d been hoping to get a sense of clarity from the parties. What had just happened? What will happen? Who is leading our country?
It’s 8.22pm on election night and the Tally room is a crazy busy, fluro lit, noisy pointing clapping chaos with politicians and cameras and AEC tech heads running and writing and filming and screaming and […]
The increasing use of personal profiling for politicians has led to something of a spiritual split down ACT candidate lines for the Federal election.
Pouring rain + Federal Election + 4 out of 8 candidates & Ross Solly ÷ Eden Monaro = 2.5 hours of propagating, pandering, psychotic pandemonium (of the variety only possible in NSW)
Before the 2010 Australian Federal election even started the media was going nuts with the phrase “Twitter Election” saying the social media site was going to change everything. But, as ZDnet’s Darryl Adams pointed out, […]
I’ve got to hand it to ACT Liberal Senator Gary Humphries, he went into the lion’s den and survived today at the Community and Public Sector Union’s ACT Senator debate.
Over the weekend former ACT Greens candidate, events co-ordinator, Canberra circus performer and local personality Elena Kirschbaum held what can only be described as the most fun I have ever had in my life. Or, […]
This morning in the see-your-breath cold Canberra sunshine the Press Gallery pack descended upon Glebe Park, hunting Opposition Leader Tony Abbott, who was attending a meet-the-mental-healthcare-providers morning tea.
Chief Minister Jon Stanhope, Federal Minister for Housing Tanya Plibersek and ANU Vice Chancellor Ian Chubb today announced that the university’s application for National Rental Affordibility Scheme was a success and as a result it […]
Banners in hands, braving the cold, some 300 Canberrans (men and women) gathered outside the Legislative Assembly in Civic today to protest pay inequity in the community sector.
Normally the candidates are nominated and deals done in advance so the voting process is all a bit of a sham, but yesterday “Canberra Times” reporter Chris Johnson warned of a rank and file uprising […]
With significant political events occurring left, right and centre, Canberra is positively oozing with wonk as bureaucrats, media types and party hacks get their geek on all over the shop.
A LARGE mobile crane tipped onto its side during routine maintenance at a business site in Hume today (February 22). No one was injured in the incident, which occurred around 1.15pm. WorkSafe ACT inspectors and […]
IN an ACT government attempt to improve quality building in Canberra, a number of Canberra builders will undergo mandatory exams next week, according to Minister for Building Quality Improvement Gordon Ramsay. “Any applicant who is […]
AS a parliament that will be unmourned winds down to the election, this fortnight has been the season for goodbyes from those departing (voluntarily). The most dramatic was Thursday’s announcement by Julie Bishop that she […]
CANBERRANS might be surprised to know that the black and white swans on the local coat of arms doesn’t represent the Canberra jurisdiction, according to the Legislative Assembly’s Standing Committee on Environment and Transport and City Services. […]
By LORANA BARTELS
