THOMAS IN THE NEWS

The ACT Government has committed to establish a Board of Inquiry, effectively a royal commission, to investigate systemic issues surrounding Aboriginal deaths in the Alexander Maconochie Centre (AMC).

The loved ones of Indigenous men who died in Canberra's jail are relieved the ACT government has backed a motion for a board of inquiry into First Nations deaths in custody Independent MLA Thomas...

Families and community leaders want to see a powerful inquiry into deaths in Canberra's jail, after two Aboriginal men died in prison custody within the same week. Independent MLA Thomas Emerson will on Tuesday...

Following the recent deaths of three Aboriginal detainees within a six-month period, independent MLA Thomas Emerson will bring a motion to the ACT Legislative Assembly backing community calls for the ACT government to launch a Board...

Help is coming to the Dickson shops where boarded up shopfronts, anti-social behaviour and struggling businesses are creating a picture of decline in the inner north. Independent Thomas Emerson broke the news on social...

The ACT Government will work towards a more coordinated response to growing food insecurity in the ACT after a motion from Independent MLA Thomas Emerson passed the Legislative Assembly unanimously on Tuesday (4 February).

Independent MLA Thomas Emerson will use a private member’s motion in the Assembly to call for the development and delivery of a co-ordinated ACT food relief action plan.

How Canberra’s strata properties are managed will come under the scrutiny of a Legislative Assembly inquiry that could shape the role of a promised Strata Commissioner and new laws to govern the burgeoning sector.