Interactive: Affordable housing, sustainability loans and utilities concessions are among the key measures set to impact households in the year ahead, the ACT's 2021-22 budget has revealed.
The ACT budget was handed down on Wednesday, with Chief Minister Andrew Barr saying it was designed to aid in the ACT's post-lockdown and post-COVID recovery. Here are the budget's biggest winners and losers.
New and expectant mums have been reassured they are in good hands and urged not to delay appointments at Canberra hospital services, after a baby tested positive to COVID-19 this week.
Subscriber: The self-made millionaire told police he had "no idea, no understanding, no nothing" after being given a notice suspending his driver's licence.
Subscriber | Analysis: The government knows it cannot cut its way to glory. Strong public spending is the cornerstone of the budget, writes Jasper Lindell.
Subscriber: ACT Chief Minister Andrew Barr has kiboshed any chance of a new Civic Stadium before the late 2020s, stating the cost of the pandemic was equal to a new stadium.
Carolyn McColl says she will never forget the horror of waking up to a pitch-black sky during the 2019-20 bushfire season and a report from the Bega mayor there was only enough fire-fighting resources to protect two towns in the whole shire.
