This week, the Australian Government closed off its one week opportunity for the Australian people to share their views via public submission about the proposed and reintroduced Communications Legislation Amendment (Combatting Misinformation Disinformation) Bill 2024.
As we build up to the 2024 ACT election in October, Marisa Paterson MLA and Jeremy Hanson CSC, MLA will write a column each week covering different topics. This is the ninth instalment.
In April 2020, I used the dilapidated, graffitied, derelict tennis courts near Hawker playing fields as a backdrop to launch the inaugural Belco Party campaign for the October 2020 Election.
The ACT has been self-governed for a decade longer than Wales. But Wales is a decade ahead of the ACT in introducing legislation to safeguard the wellbeing of future generations.
As we build up to the 2024 ACT election in October, Marisa Paterson MLA and Jeremy Hanson CSC, MLA will write a column each week covering different topics. This is the eighth instalment.
Before I get into the need to support our furry friends and their protectors in the RSPCA, I am getting increasingly concerned at many in the local media only seeking comments from one lot of independents.
In the last few years, while federal Labor has been approving 23 new coal and gas mines, the ACT Greens have got local Labor to agree to phase out fossil fuel gas.
My Belco Party mate Alan Tutt and I were concerned to hear on the hustings from a constituent who works in our justice system that last week there were seven sudden deaths of otherwise healthy people in the ACT.
As we build up to the 2024 ACT election in October, Marisa Paterson MLA and Jeremy Hanson CSC, MLA will write a column each week covering different topics. This is the seventh instalment.
A reworked version of the misinformation bill tabled by the Labor Government this week is an improvement on an earlier version of the bill, but fundamental flaws make the laws unworkable, experts say.
Over the weekend, the ACT Council of Social Services (ACTCOSS) issued a challenge to candidates running in October’s election to take bold and transformative action to prevent the cost-of-living crisis permanently reshaping our community for the worse.
The ACT has not had (until recently, perhaps) any real allegations of political wrongdoing and even corruption, which have been not infrequent occurrences in other jurisdictions.
In a striking twist, Senator David Pocock, who played a key role in abolishing the Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC) last year, now calls for stronger oversight of the construction industry.
As we build up to the 2024 ACT election in October, Marisa Paterson MLA and Jeremy Hanson CSC, MLA will write a column each week covering different topics. This is the sixth instalment.
Federal Member for Monash, Mr Russell Broadbent, is calling for a review of the Australian Government’s ‘No Jab, No Pay’ policy, saying it is discriminatory and punishes families for personal health choices.
As we build up to the 2024 ACT election in October, Marisa Paterson MLA and Jeremy Hanson CSC, MLA will write a column each week covering different topics. This is the fifth instalment.
