Maternity review – brickbats or bouquets?
The first of two reports on maternity services at the Canberra Hospital has just been released. According to Katy Gallagher, it gave glowing praise: Review confirms public maternity services delivering...
View ArticleCalvary deal off – this time we mean it
This must be the classic on-again-off-again romance. The ACT Government has decided it does not need to buy Calvary Hospital now. Apparantly Katy has realised what the community has been telling her...
View ArticleGodwin Grech escapes charges
The saga of Godwin Grech is come to an end. Despite all the accusations against Godwin Grech, the DPP have decided that they will not proceed with charges. The short story is that they don’t quite have...
View ArticleIt couldn’t happen here, could it?
Calling all political hacks out there – does your ACT party of choice keep secret files on people like the ALP in Victoria does? Do they even need to in a town with one degree of separation making...
View ArticleTimesheet blowback from Katy’s former Chief of Staff
Former Gallagher Chief of Staff Brendan Ryan has written into the Canberra Times to refute her claims of how she handled timesheet manipulation. In her support for an ethics commissioner, Gallagher...
View ArticleWhat about bias at the ABC?
So we heard about the alleged bias of the Canberra Times. Is the ABC biased too? More than a few Labor stories are tagged so that a string of Labor promises appear with many of the new announcements...
View ArticleWhere can electoral advertising signs be placed?
With so many arguments about the rules around candidates signs, it is useful to look at what they actually are. The rules seem to rule out most candidate signs around – no signs on the grass, on...
View ArticleACT elections: understanding Hare-Clark
The ACT Elections factsheet on Hare-Clark describes our vote-counting system. It claims to be a single transferable vote method. The counting is based on a quota, which is the number of votes a...
View ArticleDo we really want more ACT politicians?
You’ll probably have heard about the idea to increase the size of the ACT Assembly from 17 to 25 MLAs (in five electorates), with an outside chance of 35 MLAs (from seven electorates) somewhere in the...
View ArticleThe opaque Omnibus Draft Territory Plan Variation
You might have missed it. There’s a slew of changes coming under an ‘omnibus’ draft variation to the Territory Plan. So what? I hear you say. It’s just looking at rezoning four public housing sites:...
View ArticleMaternity review – brickbats or bouquets?
The first of two reports on maternity services at the Canberra Hospital has just been released. According to Katy Gallagher, it gave glowing praise: Review confirms public maternity services delivering...
View ArticleCalvary deal off – this time we mean it
This must be the classic on-again-off-again romance. The ACT Government has decided it does not need to buy Calvary Hospital now. Apparantly Katy has realised what the community has been telling her...
View ArticleGodwin Grech escapes charges
The saga of Godwin Grech is come to an end. Despite all the accusations against Godwin Grech, the DPP have decided that they will not proceed with charges. The short story is that they don’t quite have...
View ArticleIt couldn’t happen here, could it?
Calling all political hacks out there – does your ACT party of choice keep secret files on people like the ALP in Victoria does? Do they even need to in a town with one degree of separation making...
View ArticleTimesheet blowback from Katy’s former Chief of Staff
Former Gallagher Chief of Staff Brendan Ryan has written into the Canberra Times to refute her claims of how she handled timesheet manipulation. In her support for an ethics commissioner, Gallagher...
View ArticleWhat about bias at the ABC?
So we heard about the alleged bias of the Canberra Times. Is the ABC biased too? More than a few Labor stories are tagged so that a string of Labor promises appear with many of the new announcements...
View ArticleWhere can electoral advertising signs be placed?
With so many arguments about the rules around candidates signs, it is useful to look at what they actually are. The rules seem to rule out most candidate signs around – no signs on the grass, on...
View ArticleACT elections: understanding Hare-Clark
The ACT Elections factsheet on Hare-Clark describes our vote-counting system. It claims to be a single transferable vote method. The counting is based on a quota, which is the number of votes a...
View ArticleDo we really want more ACT politicians?
You’ll probably have heard about the idea to increase the size of the ACT Assembly from 17 to 25 MLAs (in five electorates), with an outside chance of 35 MLAs (from seven electorates) somewhere in the...
View ArticleThe opaque Omnibus Draft Territory Plan Variation
You might have missed it. There’s a slew of changes coming under an ‘omnibus’ draft variation to the Territory Plan. So what? I hear you say. It’s just looking at rezoning four public housing sites:...
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