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‘Experience from losing last year’s final really stood to us’

There is significance in the result from Thurles beyond the destination of silverware

“The average number of sitting days in the first and second Assemblies, when Rosemary Follett was Chief Minister, was around 50 days. The most recent ‘Annual Report of the ACT Legislative Assembly’ provides evidence of a constant decline,” writes political columnist  MICHAEL MOORE. IT’S always easy to put politicians down as lazy or inept. Inept is a matter of judgement. However, the evidence does not often support the lazy.  Michael Moore. Both questions should be grist for the mill at election time. Comparisons with the workloads of other jurisdictions certainly does raise quest...

Letter writer  COLIN LYONS, of Weetangera, thinks our Legislative Assembly doesn’t sit nearly enough, especially compared to other parliaments.  AFTER a recent meeting in the Legislative Assembly with one of the new members, I picked up a copy of the Sitting Calendar for 2021. I knew they didn’t sit for many weeks, but I was surprised just how little they did. So I did some international and interstate comparison. In 2018, the House of Commons sat for 122 days, the Canadian Lower House sat for 127 days, the US House of Representatives sat for 124, Japan’s Diet for 150 days, Germany’...