THOMAS IN THE NEWS

The ACT's chief minister, Andrew Barr, has brushed off criticism that his government is "tired" but acknowledged it had been a "challenging" year for the territory.

As Anti-Poverty Week (APW) 2025 ends, latest analysis shows poverty and housing stress worsening in the ACT for people on the lowest incomes, community organisations say.

Fresh detail about the future of the Kingston Arts Precinct has been revealed in an application to subdivide the site, lodged a decade after the government announced the project.

After a six-year absence, National Ride2Work Day, Australia’s biggest celebration of commuter riding, returned to Canberra this morning.

The ACT Government paid out about $6 million for footpath-related personal injury claims between 2020 and 2025.

Independent MLA Thomas Emerson has renewed a push to Close the Gap in the ACT, telling 6 News he wants to see a "massive increase" in government accountability for its commitments around outcomes for...

A senior Aboriginal official in the ACT's public service has told an inquiry into a proposed law to overhaul public servants' accountability for improving the lives of First Nations people he does not feel...

An Aboriginal senior executive disclosed on Thursday that the ACT Public Service is the most culturally unsafe workplace he has ever experienced.

Thomas Emerson MLA discussing the Inquiry into his legislation to Close the Gap. 

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.