Steep discounts needed to buoy EV sales, cut emissions
The Greens are threatening to block new fuel efficiency standards for Australian vehicles if Labor goes ahead with a change for gas projects.
Greens
ACT Police used a spit hood on a 16-year-old girl who was arrested after becoming violent with officers, Chief Police Officer Neil Gaughan revealed in estimates hearings yesterday (August 29).
"If you’re outside staring in, you’d probably say the Albanese government is looking good. If you’re inside gazing out, you’d likely think its challenges appear little short of dire," writes political columnist MICHELLE GRATTAN.
"The last thing this city needs is yet another political party with members having loyalties to their party while the values of the community are sidelined," writes "Canberra Matters" columnist PAUL COSTIGAN.
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Greens bridle at racing funding
The ACT Greens are refusing to support an agreement to provide more than $40 million in public funding to Canberra's horse racing industry.
Opinion
Canberra Libs keep missing the opportunities
"The lack of transparency and the mess created by the planning directorate was heaven-sent for the Liberals. Instead, there were a few muffled sounds – but largely their take on planning has been near silence," writes PAUL COSTIGAN.
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Committee rejects Bill to lower voting age to 16
A Legislative Assembly committee has today (February 18) published a report rejecting the Greens Bill to lower the voting age in Canberra to 16.
The Greens have announced Braidwood artist Catherine Moore as their candidate for the upcoming Monaro by-election.
Laws to protect wildlife from getting caught up in backyard fruit tree netting are being called for in the ACT.
"If the Labor Party was serious about reducing gambling harm from poker machines it wouldn’t…
THE Greens are standing out against the bipartisan consensus that tax cuts are needed for middle…
Federal Parliament
Grattan / Greens should press Jordon Steele-John to stay in Senate seat he is set to get
WHAT are the odds of three Senate candidates without a snowflake’s chance in hell of…
"The One Nation Party had more than half a million votes. The ideas that they…
ANDREW Barr and Shane Rattenbury have conducted a final review of the Parliamentary Agreement for…
THE ACT Greens have pledged to lower the voting age from 18 to 16 years…
“The idea of Canberra as a Labor town has merit. However, at the last election…
THE ACT Greens have announced their candidates for the 2016 Territory Election, after hundreds of…
THE ACT Greens have announced their candidates for the 2016 Federal Election. Economist and former…
THE ACT Greens General Meeting last night supported a motion calling on the ACT Government…
