MEDIA RELEASES

A new report from the ACT Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Elected Body (the Elected Body) has revealed that only four of the 22 targets under the ACT Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Agreement...

The ACT has become the first state or territory to legislate its commitments under the National Agreement on Closing the Gap, with Independent Member for Kurrajong Thomas Emerson MLA’s Public Sector (Closing the Gap)...

Independent Member for Kurrajong Thomas Emerson MLA is today announcing he has secured support from ACT Labor to pass his Public Sector (Closing the Gap) Legislation Amendment Bill 2025 with minor amendments. The bill...

Independent Member for Kurrajong Thomas Emerson MLA has backed calls for accountability after police mistakenly apprehended a 17-year-old Aboriginal boy at gunpoint on a Canberra bus last week.

Independent Member for Kurrajong Thomas Emerson MLA has sided with a former physical education teacher in his battle with the ACT Government to retain a basketball hoop on his street’s nature strip in the...

In the first day of Annual Reports hearings, the ACT Government has revealed that Housing ACT is not claiming any of the NDIS funding available to modify public housing for people with disability in...

Independent Member for Kurrajong Thomas Emerson MLA has today lodged a community submission to the ACT Government’s consultation on the future of a burnt-out building behind Ainslie Shops, proposing an ambitious revitalisation of the site and...

Independent MLA Thomas Emerson is calling for the ACT Government to accelerate the public release of early childhood documents following revelations by Four Corners today that almost 150 paedophiles have exploited poor regulation within...

Independent Member for Kurrajong Thomas Emerson has welcomed the release of the ACT Government’s five-year strategic plan for Oaks Estate, brought about by an Assembly motion he co-sponsored with Elizabeth Lee MLA and Shane...

The ACT Legislative Assembly’s Public Accounts and Administration Committee has today handed down the final report from its inquiry into Thomas Emerson MLA's Public Sector (Closing the Gap) Legislation Amendment Bill 2025, recommending that...