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ACT Greens: Local food and footpaths

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The ACT Greens have promised to build a local food hub in Fyshwick and to improve and maintain Canberra's footpaths.

Failing housing system: ACTCOSS & ACT Shelter call for action

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ACTCOSS and ACT Shelter called for political parties and candidates to commit to a more ambitious social housing policy.

Nearly 900 homeless children in the ACT

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Homelessness Australia’s 2024 Child Homelessness Snapshot reveals that 868 children presented to ACT homelessness services in 2022–23.

Spotting platypus in the ACT

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Canberrans are invited to join one of 28 group surveys this month to better understand platypus numbers in ACT rivers and creeks. 

Election: ACT Greens promise more funding for the environment

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The ACT Greens would establish a $50 million ‘Bush Capital Restoration Fund’ to restore and reconnect long-lost habitat.

ACT Government boosts rebates to ban wood fires by 2045

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The ACT Government will double rebates to remove woodfire heaters – part of its campaign to ban wood heaters by 2045.

ACT Greens promise funding for environmental volunteers

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The ACT Greens would increase funding for environmental volunteers, build biodiversity in suburbs, and launch a sustainability hub.

Avian flu strikes again in ACT

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A second site in the ACT has tested positive for avian influenza: backyard chickens at a home in the quarantine control area.

ACT Government to recognise the dingo as a local native animal

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A genetic study has shown that all wild dogs in Namadgi National Park are descended entirely from dingos, not feral domestic dogs.

Avian influenza found in ACT

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Avian influenza (bird flu) has been found in the ACT, but minister Vassarotti says the risk to the public is low.

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.

‘The right foundations’ to measure emissions in construction

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The ACT Government has secured agreement for a nationally consistent approach to measuring emissions in the commercial construction sector.

ACT Government: 21,000 more homes for Canberrans by 2029

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The ACT Government will release land to deliver more than 21,000 new homes by the end of the decade, this year's ILRP states.

Safe haven for critically endangered rock-wallaby opens in ACT

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The Jedbinbilla Safe Haven at Tidbinbilla will save the brush-tailed rock-wallaby, the ACT's mammal emblem, from extinction.

ACT launches Australia’s first local food plan

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The ACT will become the first Australian state or territory to launch a plan to support and grow its local food system.

Injection of $350,000 for volunteer groups to safeguard Canberra’s natural environment

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In celebration of World Environment Day, Wednesday 5 June, the ACT Government has awarded over $350,000 to 23 community-led projects as part of the 2024 round of the ACT Environment Grants. 
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