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Victorian Police launches Online News

Posted on April 22, 2009 by Valeri Rojas - 1 comment

Victoria Police Chief Commissioner Simon Overland has launched a new online news site to keep communities informed of crime in [...]

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Calls for Library in Inner-South Canberra

Posted on April 19, 2009 by Valeri Rojas - 0 comments

The Griffith-Narrabundah Community Association is asking the ACT government for a new library to be located in the Inner-South of [...]

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Discussions on ACT Social Housing

Posted on April 16, 2009 by Valeri Rojas - 0 comments

ACT Minister for Housing, Mr Hargreaves hosted a public information session on the Australian Government’s recent social housing initiative. Today [...]

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Is it time for National Human Rights Act?

Posted on April 9, 2009 by Valeri Rojas - 3 comments

The ACT Human Rights Commission is organising an open forum to discuss whether the time is right for a national [...]

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Internet Censorship

Posted on April 8, 2009 by Loquacity - 6 comments

Mark Newton has an excellent article up at Unleashed. We all know Mark is a very good debater on this [...]

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ACT Home and Community Care gets $86.17 million

Posted on April 8, 2009 by Valeri Rojas - 0 comments

ACT Home and Community Care (HACC) will receive a total of $86.17 million from the Federal and ACT government, which [...]

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Bus Services to Alexander Maconochie Centre

Posted on April 7, 2009 by Valeri Rojas - 0 comments

Chief Minister and Minister for Transport Jon Stanhope today announced the commencement of new ACTION bus services to the Alexander [...]

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Draft Comments on the employment of children and young people in the ACT

Posted on April 6, 2009 by Loquacity - 4 comments

Further to the original post on this matter, I have finally gotten everything together into a single document. I have [...]

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Gear Up Girl Challenge

Posted on April 5, 2009 by Valeri Rojas - 2 comments

The ACT Minister for Health, Katy Gallagher MLA,  opened and also participated in the first Canberra Gear Up Girl Challenge [...]

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Andrew Barr goes Facebooking with ACT Youth

Posted on April 1, 2009 by Valeri Rojas - 5 comments

Minister for Children and Young People Andrew Barr will be available to young Canberrans online between 8.30pm and 9.30pm tonight [...]

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Response to closure of Wanniassa Medical Centre

Posted on March 31, 2009 by Valeri Rojas - 2 comments

The ACT Government has agreed to five of the six recommendations made by a Legislative Assembly committee inquiring into last [...]

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ACT Gov and New Bikie Laws

Posted on March 31, 2009 by Valeri Rojas - 2 comments

The ACT government is meeting at the Legislative Assembly today to talk about police powers on Outlaw Motorcycle Clubs. The [...]

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Have your say on human rights protection!

Posted on March 30, 2009 by emd - 8 comments

There’s a national Human Rights Consultation in Canberra 10am til 12pm Tuesday 31 March. I went to the first consultation [...]

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AMC Welcomes Prisoners

Posted on March 30, 2009 by Valeri Rojas - 7 comments

Minister for Corrections John Hargreaves has announced that the Alexander Maconochie Centre accepted its first prisoners earlier today. “While the [...]

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ACT Health Helps Staff Quit Smoking

ACT Health Helps Staff Quit Smoking

Posted on March 30, 2009 by Valeri Rojas - 0 comments

As mentioned by the ACT Government before from 1 May 2009, smoking at all ACT Health facilities, including in the [...]

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Gov 2.0 Canberra Group

Posted on March 29, 2009 by Valeri Rojas - 1 comment

Gov 2.0 Canberra  is an unconference (like BarCamp) concerned with Government 2.0 in Australia. Gov 2.0 Canberra aims to help [...]

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Comments on Canberra working kids

Posted on March 27, 2009 by Valeri Rojas - 45 comments

The ACT Government is calling for comments on the Employment of Children & Young People in the ACT. New law [...]

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Canberrans Support ban on smoking in cars carrying children

Posted on March 27, 2009 by Valeri Rojas - 0 comments

Last month typeboard had an article on the ACT government’s community consultation about “smoking in cars carrying children – ACT” [...]

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New Media: Freedom for US Public Sector

Posted on March 27, 2009 by Michael de Percy - 7 comments

The US Public Sector has signed agreements with social networking sites to help improve transparency and assist in achieving President [...]

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Australia 1978 Fraser Government Records

Posted on March 26, 2009 by Valeri Rojas - 1 comment

If you were born in 1978 then you probably want to know what the Australian government was up to during [...]

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