Comment

Canberra's tangled web of developers and bureaucrats

By Kirsten Lawson
Updated April 24 2018 - 9:31pm, first published June 11 2016 - 7:03am

Blame a small city, a flawed set of rules, an inexperienced bureaucracy, a public service and government made forgetful and lazy by incumbency and familiarity, or even the ACT's deep reliance on selling land for revenue. Whichever you pinpoint as the cause, development processes in Canberra have become caught up in close relationships in which former politicians and bureaucrats people the ranks of the development industry.

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