THOMAS IN THE NEWS

Standards for ACT public servants to improve outcomes and cultural safety for First Nations people should become law and an inquiry examining the proposal is neither appropriate nor necessary, a group of Aboriginal community...

The ACT is negotiating on a much smaller quantity of CSIRO land in Canberra’s north than previously thought.

Thomas Emerson MLA discussing active travel. 

A powerful inquiry into Aboriginal deaths in custody in the ACT will examine systemic issues to avoid "indeterminate" delays while the Coroner holds inquests into individual cases, the Corrections Minister says.

The ACT is in talks to acquire only the eastern section of the former CSIRO Ginninderra experiment station, with the Housing Minister declaring the government could not do everything at once. Yvette Berry said...

A Canberra mother whose son was abused by a childcare worker has condemned the ACT Government’s decision to narrow the scope of documents it will produce relating to serious incidents in the early childhood education...

Developers will not need to pay a daily fee when they block footpaths around their building sites for another year, in a move advocates say frustrates active travel and encourages walkers back into their...

The two major parties have combined in the Legislative Assembly to rebuff a bid from Independent Thomas Emerson to overturn the deferral of a new fee system for builders blocking footpaths and roads around...

There’s now movement on the future of the long-abandoned Wakefield Gardens site in Ainslie, a month after it was destroyed in a suspected arson attack. The ACT Government has opened up community consultation to help...

A long-vacant community building in Ainslie was always likely to have been demolished and rebuilt even before a fire ravaged the structure, the government says.

Thomas Emerson MLA discussing the future of the Wakefield Gardens precinct, after the ACT Government announced plans for community consultation. 

Thomas Emerson MLA discussing declining Public School enrolments. 

A former Greens minister has claimed she found out more from the media about a sensitive issue than from the public service and there had been a "systemic" issue with wrongly directed briefings. Emma...

An independent MLA has described the alleged misconduct of several public servants, including a Director-General and the head of the ACT Public Service, as “alarming”, referring the claims to the standards commissioner. The Standing...

A Legislative Assembly Committee will probe the contentious dropping of a 2020 Labor election promise to build a new gym for Lyneham High School, in response to a community petition calling for the government...

There will be an inquiry into the government's "unacceptable" decision to upgrade a high school gym instead of completely replacing it.

ACT Policing is investigating a suspicious fire which gutted an abandoned community building in Ainslie early this morning (19 August). Emergency services were called at about 4:20 am to Wakefield Gardens, but the significant...

An abandoned building in the middle of Canberra's inner north caught fire in the early hours of Tuesday morning, destroying the roof. The building on Wakefield Gardens, behind Ainslie shops, was the centre of a...

A teenage boy who was seriously injured when he was hit by a car while walking to school has called for an overpass to be constructed over the road where he was hit.  

A school community has voiced dismay after the ACT government walked back its pre-election promise to deliver a $50 million school expansion. The government told Majura Primary School in Canberra's inner north it would...