IN OCTOBER the QPRC council majority, team Overall plus Councillors Hicks and Schweikert, appointed a consultancy to again look at the E4 zone approved by Palerang and the NSW state. Singled out for review are two rural residential localities that have long been the lobbying focus of a group of
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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