Tag: Australian Capital Territory
Should the Turnbull government be worried about the swing against the Liberals in the A.C.T. elections?
Posted by John, October 17th, 2016 - under Turnbull government.
Tags: ACT, ACT elections, ACT Greens, ACT Labor, ACT Liberals, ACT politics, Australian Capital Territory
Comments: none
The ACT election result should worry the Turnbull Government, since swings against parties have traditionally presaged the fall of the party federally, says John Passant in Independent Australia. To read the whole article click here.
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ACT politicians reject local ICAC
Posted by John, November 10th, 2014 - under Independent Commission Against Corruption.
Tags: ACT, Australian Capital Territory, Bill D'Arcy, ICAC
Comments: 4
The Australian Capital Territory’s 17 local politicians do not support an independent agency to investigate corruption in the National Capital writes Bill D’Arcy.
Why is there no Independent Commission Against Corruption in the Australian Capital Territory?
Posted by John, September 2nd, 2014 - under Independent Commission Against Corruption.
Tags: ACT, Australian Capital Territory, ICAC
Comments: 3
The corruption scandal currently unravelling in NSW should give Canberrans pause for thought, I write in New Matilda. A snippet: Can an ACT ICAC improve the confidence we ACT citizens have in our local politicians and public servants? I believe so. Such a body should be top of the list of priorities for the ACT […]
Why not make Canberra the cannabis capital of Australia?
Posted by John, May 6th, 2014 - under Uncategorised.
Tags: Australian Capital Territory, Canberra, Cannabis
Comments: 3
If Canberra is to survive the dopes it could do worse than looking at dope.
Love is in the air but the struggle for same sex marriage continues
Posted by John, October 22nd, 2013 - under Same-sex marriage.
Tags: ACT Greens, ACT Labor, ACT politics, Australian Capital Territory, Equal love
Comments: 1
The High Court will pay attention to what people are doing in the streets. That means building huge rallies across Australia to support the ACT same sex marriage laws. Doing that also puts pressure on the other State and Territory jurisdictions, and ultimately the Commonwealth, to legislate for equal love.
The brave campaigners for equal marriage have won the first battle. Now to win the war.
A gay marriage proposal: still waiting at the altar in Canberra
Posted by John, April 22nd, 2013 - under Shane Rattenbury.
Tags: ACT elections, ACT Greens, ACT Labor, ACT politics, Australian Capital Territory, Equal love, Gay marriage
Comments: 2
The fight for marriage equality will have to continue until same sex couples have the same marriage and other rights as straight Australians. Having gay marriage in the ACT will contribute to that but true marriage equality can only be won by a massive struggle from below to force Gillard Labor to legislate for it . Continue the fight for equal marriage.
Equal love now; not in the mists of time but now. Over to you Shane Rattenbury, the one remaining Greens’ member of the ACT Legislative Assembly.
Canberra – the building site death and injury capital of Australia
Posted by John, November 26th, 2012 - under Safety at work.
Tags: ACT Greens, ACT Labor, ACT politics, Australian Capital Territory, Building industry, Building unions, Building workers, CFMEU
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The best way to ensure there is safety on building sites is to give the workers power to cut off the flow of profits to the bosses, without loss of pay, when sites are unsafe, or for workers to take that power. The stakes are high. It will take a long and bitter campaign of strikes and wildcat action to force the building bosses in Canberra and elsewhere to take safety seriously and to save lives.