Recent Media

With the October election campaign officially starting this Friday, the community has an opportunity to run an interactive ruler over the key parties in a series of online candidates forums hosted by Region.

Independents for Canberra (IFC) have called for a ban on political donations from the gambling industry, its first policy announcement after its official campaign launch on Friday (6 September).

Independent groups vying for seats in the upcoming ACT election have joined calls for the territory to ban political donations from the gambling industry.

Independents for Canberra is calling for all candidates and parties to support its commitment to banning political donations from the gambling industry.

Last year family violence offences in the ACT jumped 20 percent, continuing a year-on-year upward trend. Domestic violence in the ACT goes beyond what is reported, partly because coercive control is yet to be...

Independents for Canberra have added their voices to the ever-growing chorus calling for a review of the ACT’s criminal justice system.

Independents for Canberra say an independent inquiry of the ACT's criminal justice system is needed and have promised to push for this if members of the group are elected.

Persistently high rates of reoffending and Indigenous incarceration in the ACT have not been met with sufficient action to create change.

The ACT is making good progress towards its target of reducing recidivism by 25 per cent by 2025, Attorney-General Shane Rattenbury states. But Inspector Mark Richardson, a senior policeman and independent political candidate, disagrees,...

In May 2021, fed up with the ongoing lack of support for small business in the ACT, I sent letters to the Federal and ACT Governments. In those letters I detailed how the worsening...