Political Chronicles: Australian Capital Territory, July to December 2007

Abstract

With ongoing attention to planning, an acute housing crisis, contracting blunders, a failed attempt to save a local timber mill, money to rescue caged chickens, Chief Minister Jon Stanhope’s continued animosity towards Prime Minister John Howard, and then his (perhaps short-lived) jubilation at the election of Rudd, the political landscape in the nation’s capital was engaging. In these chronicles, however, two key issues have been selected for more thorough examination. Show more