Funding possible by closing loopholes for corporate tax dodgers OUR LOCAL PUBLIC schools will be almost $20 million better off under a Shorten Labor Government — we have committed to an extra $14 billion for public schools to deliver the biggest school investment in Australian history. Parents and teachers can find
Region / Politics
Local news in and around the Capital region, Monaro, and the South Coast.
QPRC okays $100,000 special interest consultancy
First CBD redevelopment project bypasses ratepayer scrutiny
THE FIRST SALE and redevelopment of QPRC land in the Queanbeyan CBD under a confidential agreement will bypass council’s inhouse approval process. The project is for a serviced apartment hotel, restaurant/café and residential townhouses. It will be undertaken over three stages. Details, including size and scale, are limited. Councillors approved the sale
QPRC ratepayer: downtown bids, plans, and value for money?
Transparency, please. WITH THE AMALGAMATION of Queanbeyan and Palerang councils into the QPRC, our new regional council inherited numerous Queanbeyan valuable CBD council-owned buildings. In the QPRC administrative phase, the administrator and general manager, (now Mayor and CEO) accepted for consideration an unsolicited proposal from one consortium, to help council develop these
Pork Baril-aro — misleading Parliament and handouts to National Party mates?
DEPUTY PREMIER AND National Party Member for Monaro, John Barilaro, has again been answering questions about government funding handouts to Coalition mates, days after being accused of misleading parliament on a similar case. With a reputation for campaigning via photo opportunities as he hands government checks to some organisations, it did not
Free as the wind: for horses and humans
Nationals want coal — ‘no’ to Snowy Hydro (renewables, jobs)
I WAS SHOCKED and appalled to hear the comments by former Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce, calling for the abandonment of the Snowy Hydro 2.0 project in favour of building more coal-fired power stations. This is particularly worrying, given recent reports about Mr Joyce’s ambitions to return to National Party Leader
Aged-care action after years of Liberal cuts
With a Royal Commission called into the aged-care sector and a national program on ABC Four Corners based on thousands of negative reports about patient care and staff numbers, training, wages and government oversight in the residential sector, Labor’s federal Shadow Minister for Ageing and Mental Health Julie Collins asks
Run with the Wind, 21 October 2018
Libraries, dog racing latest pre-election funding winners
PUBLIC LIBRARIES AND greyhound racing clubs are the latest beneficiaries of NSW Government funding, in this case $60.7 million, in the run up to the March 2019 state election. The NSW Liberal National coalition government has been rolling out a succession of funding announcements as it stares down the prospect of