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Independents for Canberra want the Chief Minister and Treasurer roles to be split to dilute the concentration of power in the Chief Minister’s office.

The benefits of electing independents in October's ACT elections are clear.

"It’s time for an honest conversation about disadvantage in Canberra," writes Thomas Emerson in this opinion piece.

Andrew Barr has been Treasurer since July 2011, and Chief Minister since December 2014. But Independents for Canberra consider this imperium a danger to democracy, and promise that, if elected, their MLAs would seek...

The Independents for Canberra party says the ACT's chief minister and treasurer should not be the same person, pledging to try to prevent this if they hold the balance of power after the October...

Independents for Canberra will seek to formally prevent the same person from being both chief minister and treasurer concurrently in the next Legislative Assembly.

"We need MLAs who focus less on announceables and more on deliverables. There’s plenty of pretty pictures and compelling language in the ACT Government’s latest transport infrastructure glossy, released today..." writes Thomas Emerson.

Former Liberal Party prime minister and staunch conservative John Howard is more progressive than the Labor Party on gambling advertising, according to advocates for reform...

The decline in social housing in Canberra is one of the "greatest policy failures in our community's history", community groups have said as they demand change ahead of the territory election.

Housing and homelessness are the most important issues in the ACT election: homelessness is worsening while the housing supply has shrunk, and the government’s response is not working, the ACT Council of Social Service...