The ACT’s business and community leaders will sleep out in the cold to help St Vincent de Paul raise funds for Canberra's homeless people.

Federal Labor and local Liberal politicians will take part in the Vinnies CEO Sleepout in June. David Smith MP and Mark Parton MLA tell us why.

Canberra’s clubs sector is prepared to work as an industry with the ACT Government on reviewing the proposed $5 bet and $100 credit limits for poker machines and centralised monitoring system, ClubsACT CEO Craig Shannon said, but has some reservations.

Every year, Canberrans spend $2 billion on poker machines – and an estimated 44,000 people have been harmed by gambling. But that could be less of a problem if the ACT Government’s proposed reform of poker machines goes ahead.

Federal Labor has committed $3.225 million to restore Canberra’s waterways if it wins the election, MPs announced today.

The community sector is chronically underfunded by the Federal and ACT Governments, and many services and workers have been pushed to their limits, according to a survey released by the Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS).

The heritage-listed Canberra Croquet Club has received a $410,000 Sport and Recreation Grant from the ACT Government to extend its clubhouse.

ACT public school students went back today – but some schools could return to remote learning as COVID cases increase during winter.

Labor has promised to overhaul the National Disability Insurance Scheme, and Bill Shorten MP was in the ACT yesterday to push that message.

Seven and a half thousand Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people served Australia in the two World Wars – but too few know of their contribution.

The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Foundation has repeated its calls for an independent inquiry into the Dhulwa Mental Health Unit after a nurse was maimed and WorkSafe ACT issued a prohibition and improvement notice in response to another incident last week.

Senator for the ACT Zed Seselja says he will be fighting for cost of living and affordable housing this election, among other issues.