Leave Manuka alone

Updated April 24 2018 - 8:25pm, first published April 6 2016 - 5:14pm

When Bob Hawke foisted self-government on the ACT in flagrant rejection of the will of its citizens who voted against it in not one, but two, referenda, it meant that Canberra was open to business, and before long we were destined to resemble every other badly planned, congested and sold-out city in Australia.

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