ACAT Gets Tough With First Home Owners Grant Cheats
The ACAT is reporting that one, Subhangi Chakravarty (http://www.acat.act.gov.au/judgment/view/4848/title/chakravarty-commissioner-for-act) has been busted for cheating on the FHOG and concessional...
View ArticleNCA finally does something useful
The NCA now has a website (http://www.nationalcapital.gov.au/waterquality) where people can check LBG water quality, alerts and closures. This site may have been around for a while but I have just...
View Article2013 Parliamentary Sittings
The 2013 sitting calendar has just been released but is not yet on the APH website (http://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Sitting_Calendar). I’ll post the link when it comes available. There are 19...
View ArticleActewAGL “Bitterly Disappointed” it can’t waste another $300k
The Crimes has the unbelievably narcissistic Michael Costello saying how sad he is that he can’t blow $300,000 on a June staff party. After all the shenanigans (Cotter Dam cost blow-out), John Mackay...
View ArticleCTPI Compensation for non-fault accident?
A question for the hive-mind. I am at home with a badly broken leg and multiple other injuries, after being cleaned up by a 4WD driver who “never saw me” on my cruiser motorbike. I’ve been told that...
View ArticleACTPLA Gets Caned Yet Again
Yet again, ACTPLA has been caught out approving a development that is non-compliant with their own rules. The ACAT found that there were so many things wrong that, even if they imposed a number of...
View ArticleJavarne Saipani, the next recidivist offender?
Our favourite sentencing judge, Justice John Nield, has sentenced another violent young man according to the Canberra Times, this one to weekend prison for 7 months. This charming piece of humanity...
View ArticleTony Abbott’s Acts of Bastardry Part I
I thought I would start a series of Tony Abbott’s Acts of Bastardry, so that there is a running record of all the unconscionable things that he gets up to over the next three (hopefully no longer)...
View ArticleMyGov is a Dog (with apologies to all our canine friends)
I see that the ATO is about to announce that we will need to use MyGov for tax returns in the future. My experience with MyGov has been appalling. I just tried it again, with no success at all. When I...
View ArticleICRC jumps the shark on water pricing
The Independent Competition and Regulatory Commission has just released a review of Canberra’s water pricing regime. In it, they are proposing that fixed charges rise considerably, while usage charges...
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