Woden Town Square can attract a crowd… stand by for the long shadows. Photo: Fiona Carrick
“With 24 apartment towers and about 10,000 residents due to appear in the Woden Town Centre, this government has not prepared the area for this new high-rise suburb,” writes “Canberra Matters” columnist
PAUL COSTIGAN.
IT has been about 18 months since I wrote a full piece about the Woden Town Centre and the ever-increasing planning issues that plague residents.
Paul Costigan.
Still no-one in this government is listening or delivering on what some went to the 2020 elections promising – “Building a Better Normal”. Maybe the ACT Greens’ version of the better normal was always a degraded standard of living for Woden residents while being an even-better normal for developers.
Photo: Senthan Thani
LABOR spent $561,483 on engaging consultants or advertising agents to retain government for a fifth term in last year’s ACT elections.
The exorbitant amount of funds for services and material relating to advertisements that extends to broadcasting and publishing electoral matters was more than half of the party’s entire campaign expenditure.
Both of the major parties forked out more than $1 million – the Canberra Liberals spending $14,194 more than Labor – in total electoral expenditure to win over voters.
But Labor coughed up more than six times than the $85,049 the Liberals spent on public relations spin.
The ACT Greens, who have formed a coalition government for the third time, were one of 14 party candidates that did not pay out a cent on consult or agent fees.
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IAN MEIKLEÂ muses about words.Â
WORDS are to me as horseshoes are to a blacksmith; I forge the adjectives, hammer the verbs and cobble them into sentences that are shaped into paragraphs, columns, pages and papers.Â
Ian Meikle.
Am I a wordsmith, I vainly wondered. “A skilled user of words,” Google confirmed. A lifetime in journalism hasn’t been a waste then, though truth be told, I’ve never felt particularly gifted with an especially grandiose vocabulary (though I do know what
crapulent
I
feel words. Other wordsmiths’ toes curl at the mere mention of a gerund and they take split infinitives very personally. Not me. I like the metre (rhythm) of active news reporting and can be very forgiving in my editing, favouring substance over form.Â