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Acton Waterfront is planning backwards—and Canberrans will pay the price
The ACT Government appears determined to commercialise one of Canberra’s most important waterfront sites before revealing what may be built there, what the impacts will be or whether the existing planning rules will survive the process. Acton Waterfront is shaping up as one of the most poorly conceived urban-renewal exercises attempted by the Barr Government.…
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Gosling will not stand aside after speaking with Albanese as bail conditions varied
The federal Labor MP says he will continue serving while contesting the charges, after a Darwin court allowed him to attend functions alongside NT Administrator David Connolly under strict conditions. Federal Labor MP Luke Gosling has declared that he will not stand aside and intends to continue serving after speaking with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese,…
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Chisholm pledges Labor support for coal as Asian demand endures
Assistant Resources Minister Anthony Chisholm says coal will remain integral to regional energy security and steelmaking, although government forecasts point to increasingly divergent trajectories for Australia’s thermal and metallurgical coal exports. The Albanese Government has delivered one of its clearest recent assurances to Australia’s coal sector, with Assistant Minister for Resources Anthony Chisholm declaring that…