Latest news: Political capital

Former Chief Minister Jon Stanhope argued this week that it’s time to consider establishing local councils in Canberra. Is this a good idea?

Observing events in Afghanistan at present is a like watching a car crash; the ultimate disastrous outcome has a grim inevitability.

The Federal Opposition has homed in on findings last week by the Auditor-General that the Coalition Government has misused millions of dollars.

Labor and Greens women MLAs are promoting a petition to erect a statue of a prominent woman in Canberra by 2023.

Observers of the march through Civic on 21 May – protesting government inaction on climate change – probably fell into two camps.

It’s not a claim the Labor Party would ever want to be heard making, but it’s true: Labor is the natural party of government in Canberra.

After Health, the Corrections portfolio would have to be the biggest poisoned chalice a minister could be given in this Territory.

With news of the royal commission into veteran suicide still rolling across the airwaves, I found myself last weekend in Bundanoon.

The corona crisis has brought out the best in our nation’s leaders, both political and bureaucratic. But it has also exposed their weaknesses.

It’s six months since the October 2020 ACT election and the humiliating defeat handed to the Canberra Liberals. The electorate delivered them their sixth successive election loss, rubbing salt into the wound by throwing in a 3% swing against them after nearly 20 years in opposition.