MEDIA RELEASES

Senator David Pocock and Thomas Emerson MLA are backing calls from Ngunnawal Elder Aunty Violent Sheridan and Ngunnawal custodian Richie Allan for the ACT Government and Telstra to honour Telstra’s prior commitment to transform...

Independent Member for Kurrajong Thomas Emerson MLA has welcomed the release of almost 2,500 documents detailing serious incidents in the ACT’s early childhood education and care sector, but will dispute claims of privilege on...

Independent Member for Kurrajong Thomas Emerson MLA and community advocates have welcomed an announcement today of $10 million to improve lighting around Lake Burley Griffin.

I am sickened by last night’s terrorist attack in Bondi and devastated for the victims, their families, the Jewish community, and our country. 

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...