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Nicholas Fuller

Nicholas Fuller

ACT’s first battery connected to National Electricity Market

The 10-megawatt, two-hour (20 megawatt hour) battery is the first of dozens that will be installed in the ACT over the next couple of decades.

Lifeline Canberra Bookfair bound to be biggest ever

This year’s long-awaited Lifeline Canberra February Bookfair, held at EPIC, will be truly epic: not merely the biggest in three years, since before the pandemic began, but the biggest ever.

Union, Liberals call for more funding for ACT police

After the publication of the ROGS police data this week, the AFPA is calling for 300 more police, while the Liberals want an inquiry.

ROGS: ACT police funding and numbers lowest in Australia

the ACT has the fewest police officers and the lowest recurrent expenditure per person, the Report on Government Services shows.

New cancer research facility for Canberra

The ACT Government today revealed the designs for a new research facility at the Canberra Region Cancer Centre, Canberra Hospital.

Meet the Canberran who makes the Australia Day awards

Canberra artist Cathy Newton, from the ANU School of Art and Design’s Glass Workshop, makes the Australian of the Year awards.

Homelessness rises in ACT while social housing dwindles

The ACT Government is spending more on homelessness than ever before but less on social housing; homelessness worsens while the number of public housing dwellings falls, according to the Australian Government Productivity Commission’s Report on Government Services data published this week.

Ban alcohol and gambling from club refuges, Labor MLA says

Labor MLA Dr Marisa Paterson believes that the service of alcohol and all gambling activity in clubs designated as refuges should cease.

Committee recommends portable long service leave despite industry opposition

Should workers in industries typified by short-term employment be eligible for portable long service leave? Opinion is divided in the ACT.

New interchange and bus timetable to cope with worst months of ACT’s light rail disruption

Next week, a temporary new interchange at Woden will open, while bus routes will switch to an interim timetable.

Firefighters’ union calls for reforms to ACT emergency services

The United Firefighters Union warns that the ACT is not prepared for another fire like that of 2003 – and they blame the ACT ESA.

Union says systematic failures leave firefighters short

Twenty years after the 2003 fires, is the ACT prepared for another fire emergency? The United Firefighters Union ACT Branch says not.
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