MEDIA
CANBERRA LIBERALS STAND UP FOR COMMUNITY SAFETY IN MOLONGLO
By: Deborah Morris & Ed Cocks Canberra Liberals Ed Cocks MLA and Deborah Morris MLA have called on the ACT Labor Government to treat community safety in the Molonglo Valley as a priority, after residents in Wright, Coombs, Denman Prospect and surrounding suburbs...
LABOR LEAVING DYING CANBERRANS WITHOUT HOME SUPPORT
By: Mark Parton The Canberra Liberals will move a Motion in the Assembly to advocate for dying Canberrans to continue to have access to practical, non-clinical palliative care and support at home, after ACT Labor cut funding to the Community Options Palliative Care...
YOU CAN’T MAKE THIS UP: ASKED ABOUT CANBERRA’S FUEL PRICES AGAIN, ANDREW LEIGH TALKS ABOUT PETER DUTTON
By: Nick Tyrrell Asked directly on ABC Radio Canberra this morning* whether the government was dodging the issue of Canberra’s fuel prices, Fenner MP Andrew Leigh, the Assistant Minister for Competition, did what he has now done five times in four days: he dodged it...
HANDS OFF THE OVER-65 HEALTH REBATE: PROTECT CANBERRA SENIORS
By: Mark Parton Canberra Liberals Leader and Shadow Health Minister Mark Parton will move a Legislative Assembly motion calling on the ACT Labor Government to tell their Federal counterparts to dump its plan to axe the higher private health insurance rebate for...
ACT LABOR MINISTER CHEYNE CENSURED FOR DEFYING THE ASSEMBLY AND THE SEATBELT-CAMERA BUNGLE
By: Mark Parton Canberra Liberals Leader Mark Parton will move a motion in the Legislative Assembly censuring ACT Labor’s City Services Minister Tara Cheyne for ignoring a clear Assembly vote on Sunday library closures and for failures in the traffic-infringement...
TYRRELL WELCOMES COALITION’S FUEL PRICE SHIELD AS CANBERRA’S ANDREW LEIGH REFUSES TO ACT
By: Nick Tyrrell Liberal Senate candidate for the ACT Nick Tyrrell has welcomed the Coalition’s new Fuel Price Shield, an automatic safeguard that would halve fuel excise and zero out the heavy vehicle road user charge whenever global oil prices spike. He has also...
FUEL FARCE: CANBERRA NOW PAYS MORE FOR PETROL THAN DARWIN
By: Nick Tyrrell ACT Senate candidate Nick Tyrrell has written to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission after its own data confirmed Canberra now has the highest average petrol and diesel prices of any capital city in Australia. The ACCC's Weekly Fuel...
TEN STUDIES, TEN MILLION DOLLARS, STILL NO NEW STADIUM: CANBERRA DESERVES BETTER THAN A NEW DISCUSSION PAPER
By: Nick Tyrrell The federal government has today confirmed what every Canberran already suspected: after spending $10 million and nearly two decades of "planning," Labor still can't tell us where the new Canberra Stadium will actually be built, or when, or for how...
GALLAGHER’S GRANTS, GALLAGHER’S SILENCE
By: Nick Tyrrell Finance Minister Katy Gallagher has serious explaining to do, after Labor's $560 million Major and Local Community Infrastructure grants program was revealed by the Centre for Public Integrity to fall well short of the accountability and transparency...