State health ministers will push the federal government to crack down on illicit vaping imports after research found they are serving as a “gateway” to cigarettes.
Security,cleaning,construction and traffic companies have less than four weeks to comply with new rules that will enshrine union access to their job sites.
It comes as the peak body for disability services warns of a looming market failure and some providers close their doors.
An early version of the review recommended cases involving Aboriginal kids be given to workers with"demonstrated cultural competency".
Despite the recent shenanigans,federal ministers are"honourable"- as in all other Australian parliaments - although they're not here. That could soon change.
A review into the annual festival's budget blowouts comes after a separate probe into a million-dollar overspend at Floriade.
Normally when hundreds of union members descend on the ACT Legislative Assembly,it's because they're"throwing bricks at the place",according to one official.
Draft legislation will prevent companies getting government work unless they have a local jobs code certificate.
The jobs code was promised at the last ACT election.
Workers on Canberra's light rail project have been ripped off $700,000,according to a wage theft lawsuit to be filed in the Federal Court this week.
The requirement is part of a suite of new health and safety measures introduced by ACT Industrial Relations Minister Rachel Stephen-Smith.