Punters call for review of Ombudsman ruling
Noel Towell The liquidator of collapsed betting agency Sports Alive says he is surprised by the ACT Ombudsman's decision to clear the territory's gambling authority for its alleged oversight of the bookie.
Ombudsman finds collapsed bookie misled authorities
Noel Towell The ACT's gambling authority has been cleared over its conduct in the $14 million collapse of online bookmaker Sports Alive four years ago.
GRC in the clear over Sports Alive
Noel Towell The ACT's gambling authority has been cleared over its conduct in the $14 million collapse of bookmaker Sports Alive four years ago.
Ticketing glitch to force fare refunds
Noel Towell ACTION buses will have to refund tens of thousands of dollar in fares it has overcharged Canberra school children in recent days.
Sports Alive punters dudded on debts
Noel Towell More than 18,000 gamblers burned by the collapse of ACT-registered bookmaker Sports Alive will get nothing.
Council told to run AGM again
Noel Towell The ACT government's Justice Department has ordered that last year's allegedly stacked general meeting be held again.
Voting in doubt at two more branches
Noel Towell and Lisa Cox The Canberra Liberals' Senate preselection has slipped further into chaos with voting rights now in doubt at two more party branches.
Liberals in turmoil over voter eligibility
Lisa Cox and Noel Towell There is still confusion about voter numbers in the Canberra Liberals' Senate preselection, just two days before ballots are due be cast.
Hanson moves with the times, but needs to show lighter side
Noel Towell Four-and-a-bit years in politics sure can change a bloke's tune.
ANU newspaper regrets lost money and integrity
Noel Towell The Australian National University's student newspaper has apologised over its conduct around the alleged embezzlement of more than $125,000 of students' money by a former office holder in the...
Another hedge devastated by Canberra's shrub war
Noel Towell Another casualty in Canberra’s front yard hedge war has emerged - a magnificent 60 metre specimen in Ainslie’s heritage-listed Corroboree Park.
Hungry beast of Braddon escapes TAMS trim
Noel Towell This could be the hedge that reignites Canberra's front yard shrubbery war.
We'll all be pruned: alarm over massacre in the suburbs
John-Paul Moloney, Noel Towell Four and half years since the last Canberra hedge war, the scars for residents of Stokes Street in Griffith are still healing.
Fraud probe on ANU students' missing $125,000
Noel Towell, Christopher Knaus The ANU Student Association admits more than $125,000 of its members' money is missing due to alleged fraud.
Gallagher plea to PM as asbestos talks fail
Noel Towell Talks aimed at resolving Canberra's buried asbestos crisis have collapsed with the territory government accusing the Commonwealth of double standards.
Sport, small businesses set to profit
Noel Towell The Canberra Liberals promised yesterday to spend $350,000 on netball courts in Canberra's south if elected this month, while the ACT Greens launched a $2.
Students, animals get poll promises
Noel Towell The ACT Greens were promising to improve the lives of Canberra's animals in their latest election pledge yesterday while the ACT government was offering money to help make the city's public school...
$14m bill to upgrade 800m of road
Noel Towell The ACT government's building boss has defended spending $14 million and 12 months upgrading 800 metres of road in the city's south.
Liberals accused of 'push polling' Canberrans
Lisa Cox, Noel Towell The Canberra Liberals have been accused of "blatant push polling" in a telephone survey of Canberra residents about the ACT election.
