O'Flynn, Janine2026-06-022026-06-020004-9522ORCID:/0000-0002-5565-5923/work/175569249https://hdl.handle.net/1885/733809798With 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.en200810.1111/j.1467-8497.2008.00499.x