THOMAS IN THE NEWS

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...

Thomas Emerson MLA discussing school funding and enrolment growth forecasts for Majura Primary.

A business case for the development of the CSIRO Ginninderra land should already have been prepared, given the history of the issue and the imminent sealing of a deal with the Commonwealth for the...

Former Chief Ministers Jon Stanhope and Gary Humphries and more than 35 other community leaders have signed an open letter urging the ACT Legislative Assembly to support independent MLA Thomas Emerson’s Closing the Gap Bill.  

Thomas Emerson discussing the Closing the Gap Bill with Saskia Mabin on ABC Radio Canberra. 

Two former chief ministers are among a group of community leaders, elders and advocates who have backed an independent's push to enshrine the ACT government's Closing the Gap commitments in law. "Five years have...

Thomas Emerson discussing whether developers should be required to keep footpaths open throughout construction. 

The ACT Government has released a landmark review into the over-representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the criminal justice system.

The $30.7 million [pdf] Payroll Capability and Human Resource Management (PC-HRM) program aims to upgrade existing systems that the territory government previously - unsuccessfully - attempted to replace with SAP SuccessFactors.

More than 2600 jobs have been lost across Canberra's night spots despite sales and the number of establishments in the territory growing, a new analysis has found.

A sports bar on Northbourne Avenue is closing after seven years, with owners blaming light rail construction and government taxes.  

Up to 21 people have had their Working With Vulnerable People (WWVP) registration revoked over the past year due to new information emerging about their past. A further 23 new applicants have been denied...