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 second instalment.
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.
On a local note, this will be my last column for at least three months, as I have succumbed to my party’s requests that I stand again for the October local elections.
Property rights are one of the cornerstones of Australian democracy. It goes without saying that a private individual, family or company can own property and use it for pretty much any legal purpose.
The definition of a case can mean “instance of disease” in the narrower sense, but in the wider epidemiological sense, it simply means “the criteria for categorising an individual as a case.” In other words, a case is whatever the inventor wants it to be.
Last month, Country Press Australia (CPA) – the largest representative association of newspaper publishers in Australia – appeared before a joint hearing in Canberra into social media and its impacts on Australian society.
Win or lose, Peter Dutton’s announcement that the Coalition will build seven nuclear power stations, all government-owned, across Australia has really put the cat amongst the pigeons.
CNN’s announcement last Thursday that Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. (RFK, Jr.) "does not qualify” to be on the network’s June 27 2024 presidential debate stage is not based on the bricks of presidential campaign debate history.
Amongst other things, I am the patron of the ACT Victims of Crime Assistance League (VOCAL), a dedicated group of volunteers who, with no assistance from the ACT Government, help those victims of crime who fall through the cracks of the public service victims scheme.
I’m in Canberra today for a Senate inquiry into excess deaths. Excess deaths is a manipulated term that is actually a modelled figure used to distort the truth.
Are we going to see a change of government in the ACT after 19 October? We need to, as the ALP has been in power for 23 years, the last 12 of which have been in a rock-solid coalition with the Greens.
Australia’s online harms regulator eSafety receives daily reports from private ‘social listening’ firm Meltwater to monitor community sentiment about its Commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, newly released documents show.
