THE PERENNIAL ISSUE of roads and funding more of them has (predictably) emerged in the battle between Labor and the Nationals for votes in greater Queanbeyan. Missing — as is often the case — is the option of better public transport for the growing city of Queanbeyan and its new towns
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What will they privatise next?
Shameful NSW government logging on famous Corn Trail
THE FIRST OBJECTIVE of the NSW Forestry Corporation is to ‘Be a successful business’. Friends of the Mongarlowe River (FMR) argue that the economics of logging steep hillsides in a forestry compartment surrounded by Declared Wilderness just don’t stack up. These magnificent native forests are worth far more to Australia as
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
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