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Latest news: Michael Pettersson

ACT politics bulletin: Tuesday 3 September

Local Nicholas Fuller -
The final sitting week of the ACT Legislative Assembly's current term begins - and the Greens and the Liberals have Labor in their sights.

ACT politics bulletin: Tuesday 27 August

Local Nicholas Fuller -
The ACT Greens promise light rail two years before Labor. The Canberra Liberals want a review of assistance payments. And more.

ACT passes property developers act

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Today, the ACT Legislative Assembly will vote on establishing Australia’s first licencing and regulation scheme for property developers.

ACT politics: Wednesday 15 May

Local Newstime Media -
Domestic violence, coercive control, registry marriages, rental homes, and new schools: ACT politicians' concerns this week.

ACT drug decriminalisation begins tomorrow

Local Newstime Media -
From tomorrow, the personal possession of small amounts of drugs – including heroin and ice – will be decriminalised in the ACT.

Future of AIS will be debated in ACT Assembly

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ACT politicians from both the government and the opposition want the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) to stay in Canberra.

ACT teens want to vote, but Greens bill fails

Local Nicholas Fuller -
ACT Labor and the Canberra Liberals voted down a long-standing ACT Greens motion to lower the voting age from 16 to 18.

Labor MLAs’ Indigenous and neurodiversity motions

Local Nicholas Fuller -
Labor MLAs Paterson and Pettersson are recognizing Indigenous heritage in Weston Creek, and pioneering a Neurodiversity Strategy and Office.

Michael Pettersson: Gungahlin needs a cinema

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Gungahlin residents have waited for a cinema for more than a decade; the ACT Government will urgently facilitate its development.

Transports of delight? Other Legislative Assembly business

Local Nicholas Fuller -
The ACT Government will look to extend the FuelCheck pilot, and to invest more in the construction, repair, and maintenance of bike paths.

Unions hold protest outside ACT Legislative Assembly

Local Nicholas Fuller -
Hundreds of members of the CFMEU and the UWU held a protest outside the ACT Legislative Assembly against the government’s latest wage offer.

Pettersson calls for better youth mental health in Gungahlin

Local Newstime Media -
Michael Pettersson MLA will today call for the ACT Government to fund a headspace clinic in Gungahlin to improve youth mental health.

ACT to develop anti-racism strategy

Local Nicholas Fuller -
The ACT Legislative Assembly’s sixth Inquiry into Racial Vilification report was published this week. a response to the surfacing of racism.

Labor MLA: ACT Government ‘dragging its feet’ on developer licensing

Local Abbey Halter -
ACT Labor backbencher Michael Pettersson and Zach Smith from CFMEU are both waiting for the ACT Government and Minister Vassarotti to stop "dragging their feet" over a property licensing scheme.

What happened in the ACT Legislative Assembly on Tuesday

Local Nicholas Fuller -
Older Canberrans' rights and embedded utilities networks were debated in the Legislative Assembly on Tuesday.

Michael Pettersson calls for review of embedded networks

Local Newstime Media -
Some Canberrans are locked into expensive utility contracts; Labor MLA Michael Pettersson wants better consumer protection.
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