ACT taxpayers should be questioning the decision of the ACT Labor Chief Minister to head off on his third overseas trip in the last six months, just days after his government delivered a horror Budget for Canberrans

The Canberra Liberals team remained firmly focussed on holding ACT Labor to account and the 25 new and higher tax increases in last weeks Budget needed further scrutiny.

Shadow Treasurer Ed Cocks MLA has criticised the ACT Labor Government’s budget priorities after the 2025-26 Budget revealed interest payments have surged to become the largest area of spending growth for2025-26, while health funding is forecast to be lower than 2024-25.

The ACT Labor Government needs to quit the blame game and deliver the long-awaited Tuggeranong Ice Sports Facility.

In a joint motion in the Assembly tomorrow, Shadow Minister for Sport and Recreation James Milligan and Liberal Members for Brindabella Deborah Morris and Mark Parton will call on the ACT Government to deliver on their decade-old promise to build the Tuggeranong Ice Sports Facility.

Reports today in the Australian Financial Review that the Federal Labor Health Minister Mark Butler has sought to distance himself from ACT Labor’s new $250 health tax because it breaches the notion of universal health care is astounding.

At a time when households across the ACT are suffering under a cost of living crisis with escalating grocery, fuel and housing expenses, the Barr Labor government will slug households with an extra bill of more than $5,500.

After two big budget blowouts worth half a billion dollars, we’re finally going to see Labor’s new Budget.

After 12 years of Andrew Barr’s mismanagement, the chickens are coming home to roost and Canberrans will get to see if Treasurer Steel has taken the difficult decisions – or whether he’s just another chook.

The ACT Labor’s new Budget housing and land supply policy is more Budget bluster with serious doubts remaining over their 2024 election promise to build 30,000 new homes by 2030.

The confirmation this morning that ice on the light rail power lines was the cause of the major disruption to services should force a full explanation from the Minister for Transport to explain exactly what went wrong.

The ACT Treasurer Chris Steel has been forced to reveal another ACT Budget blow-out with an additional $39.4 million spent just weeks after the passage of the Financial Management Act 2025 which forces the government to reveal when it uses its emergency spending powers.

In a victory for community action over Government incompetence, the community has been advised that the Point Hut Dog Exercise Area (PHDEA) will remain off-leash.

Deborah Morris MLA has today written to ACT Ministers Steel and Paterson to confirm whether outlaw motorcycle gangs operating in the ACT are profiting off Canberra families through ACT Government-funded programs.

Thanks to the advocacy of James Milligan MLA, the Standing Committee on Environment, Planning, Transport and City Services has announced it will be undertaking an inquiry into Fix My Street.

The ACT is one of the last jurisdictions in the nation where legislation has not been passed to prevent coercive control and it’s high time we stepped up to the plate and protected women and families.

Following last week’s decision by the Independent Legal Arbiter The Hon. Keith Mason AC KC, Canberra Liberals leader Leanne Castley MLA has publicly published the ACT Government’s business case for Light Rail Stage 2.

Lanyon’s local dog owners are fighting for the future of a beloved dog park which for decades has been enjoyed daily by locals exercising their dogs off lead.

Shadow Treasurer Ed Cocks MLA has welcomed the ACT Ombudsman’s latest report, saying it shines a long-overdue light on the Territory’s problematic approach to debt recovery and revenue enforcement.

If Labor was serious about housing affordability, they would start with reforming the Lease Variation Charge, improving the approvals pathway, and accelerating new land release.