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Monday, December 23, 2024

Bill Stefaniak

Bill Stefaniak

Fit the Bill: Gorbachev, the Ukrainian embassy, and rabbits

Last week, the last remaining member of the big four whose tireless efforts ended the cold war in 1989 died, Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev.

Fit the Bill: Should stage 3 tax cuts be shelved?

Which brings me to a question that is vexing the government: should the stage 3 tax cuts be canned?

Fit the Bill: Is the NDIS sustainable?

I see recent reports in the media that 15 to 20 per cent of the cost of the NDIS is due to major criminal gangs defrauding the scheme. 

Fit the Bill: Will Jacinta Price be our first Indigenous PM?

I’m a natural cynic, but was moved to read NT Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price’s maiden speech to the Senate.

Fit the bill: ACT’s new residential tenancy amendments are dangerous

The Residential Tenancy Act is geared towards the rights of tenants, and landlords and agents dread going to ACAT, which they see as too tenant friendly.

Fit the Bill: ACT government owes it to McLuckie family to review sentencing laws

I have followed, with sadness, another tragic death of a fine young man with so much potential.

Fit the Bill: 150 million cows and cattle to die unless Albo acts

In the ACT, animals quite rightly are sentient beings. That means they have feelings and feel pain. They are entitled to our protection.

Obituary: Former MLA Helen Cross

Bill Stefaniak remembers his former Legislative Assembly colleague, Helen Cross, who died at home in Gungahlin recently.

Fit the Bill: Only Aussies should vote in Australian elections

After seven good weeks, Albo has finally come up with a stupid idea. We cheapen our vote if we allow any foreign nationals the right to vote here.

Fit the Bill: Kangaroo cull may be excessive

At ACAT, I presided over the first two kangaroo cull cases brought by Animal Liberation and their colleagues.

Fit the Bill: CIT fiasco

I looked at the 2021 ACT government report on CIT and saw the current appropriation for that worthy institution was $78.4 million plus $9.6 for capital works.

Zita Mary Clinic and election wash-up

Since the days of former ACT Health Minister Kate Carnell in the late 1990s, the Zita Mary Clinic at Calvary Hospital has been treating northside cancer patients.
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