MEDIA RELEASES

Independent Member for Kurrajong Thomas Emerson MLA has joined local community groups in calling for the ACT Government to expand the Sustainable Household Scheme to include e-bikes in the face of the ongoing fuel...

New data shows that in 2024-25, the ACT Government spent an estimated $36.2 million on detaining Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the Alexander Maconochie Centre and the Bimberi Youth Justice Centre, compared...

Independent Member for Kurrajong Thomas Emerson MLA is calling for Dr Margot McNeill to resign from her position as Chief Executive Officer of the Canberra Institute of Technology (CIT). This follows revelations that Dr...

Independent Member for Kurrajong Thomas Emerson MLA has described the Chief Minister’s announcement of reduced monthly fare caps on public transport as an indication that the ACT Government is not taking the impact of...

Independent Member for Kurrajong Thomas Emerson MLA has voiced his dismay after the major parties teamed up to remove calls for ACT Government action on the fuel crisis in an Assembly motion late yesterday...

Independent Member for Kurrajong Thomas Emerson MLA has expressed disappointment at the lack of ambition from the major parties after his attempt to bring forward the ACT’s net zero target from 2045 to 2040...

Multiple local First Nations community leaders have joined calls for a formal investigation into allegations made by the former head of the ACT Office of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs, Brendan Moyle, that...

Independent Member for Kurrajong Thomas Emerson MLA is calling for a formal investigation into allegations made by the former head of the ACT Office of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs, Brendan Moyle, that...

Independent Member for Kurrajong Thomas Emerson MLA has described the findings of a damning ACT Ombudsman’s report into Housing ACT’s management of tenant repairs and maintenance as unsurprising, with public housing issues ranking as...

Canberrans will be relieved by today’s statement from ACT Policing that no crime was committed by Dissent Cafe and Bar last Wednesday, but many questions remain unanswered.