Push to provide more places to shop in parliamentary precinct
Ross Peake A parliamentary committee will be given the green light to investigate the lack of shops in the parliamentary zone.
Bizarre military booking overturned
Ross Peake Military police have taken two years to deem ageing handbooks no longer a threat to national security.
70 years on, Centaur again in limelight
Ross Peake The Australian War Memorial is preparing to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the torpedoing of an Australian hospital ship in which 268 lives were lost.
Budget fears as more PS jobs to go
Ross Peake More federal public servants have been told their jobs will disappear, with broadband staff next in line for cuts.
Finance Department forced to shed jobs after savings shortfall
Ross Peake The Finance Department is preparing to cut jobs after failing to make the savings imposed by the federal government.
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Call for public service to embrace social media
Ross Peake The public service must find the will to vastly extend its embrace of social media to create a "digital democracy" marked by far greater citizen participation.
Move 'soon' on Anzac centenary
Ross Peake The federal government is about to release the six-month-old report from the Anzac Centenary Advisory Board on how to mark the event in 2015.
Call for ministerial advisers to be personally responsible
Ross Peake One of the nation's most senior former bureaucrats calls for ministerial advisers to be made personally accountable for their actions.
High-speed rail study poses Canberra's 64-minute question
Ross Peake A high-speed train into Canberra would travel through a tunnel under Mount Ainslie and terminate at a station to be built on the eastern fringe of Civic, according to a study commissioned by the...
Canberrans loving the NBN
Ross Peake Gungahlin is experiencing the fastest take up rate in the nation for the national broadband network.
Coalition's NBN 'dumbest piece of public policy': Conroy
Ross Peake Communications Minister Stephen Conroy labelled the Coalition's plan as dumb for proposing to use Telstra's ageing copper wire network for broadband.
Simon Lewis to head up Veterans' Affairs Department
Ross Peake Simon Lewis will become the head of the Veterans' Affairs Department, Prime Minister Julia Gillard said on Friday shortly before she left for China.
Fears of PS job cuts stir campaign
Ross Peake The CPSU will convene a ''council of war'' in Canberra on Thursday to plan a high-profile election year campaign.
Regional TV in jeopardy if rules altered
Ross Peake The future of regional television will be in jeopardy if the government allows major metropolitan stations to buy out regional broadcasters, a parliamentary inquiry was told on Monday.
Retail drop-off in the offing
By Ross Peake Retail sales in the ACT are forecast to slow due to federal government spending cuts and less house building.
Hawke bucks party power
Ross Peake Former prime minister Bob Hawke has proposed that Federal Parliament have a free vote on significant issues.
Break with tradition for Anzac Day
Ross Peake Names of battlefields and iconic images of war will be projected on the front wall of the Australian War Memorial.
Break with tradition for Anzac Day dawn service
Ross Peake Names of battlefields and iconic images of war will be projected on the the front wall of the Australian War Memorial before this year's Anzac Day dawn service.
Peacekeeper's names to be added to honour roll
Ross Peake The Australian War Memorial has decided to break with tradition and allow the names of peacekeepers who died on active service to be added to the bronze panels of the roll of honour of Australia's...
PM's new department head 'an asset'
Ross Peake Julia Gillard has appointed a new head to a department whose main program would be significantly changed by an incoming Coalition Government.
