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A MAP released by the ACT government proposes densification and infill opportunities along the Woden light rail corridor that could have “devastating” effects on the area, according to the Deakin Residents Association (DRA). The government’s 2019-20 Budget indicates that it is planning for 120,000 to work and almost 90,000 to live or study within one kilometre of the Woden light rail corridor by 2041. With the “light rail stage 2 investigation area” cutting through some of south Canberra’s major suburbs such as Deakin and Yarralumla, DRA president Dr John Bell is worried that the government’s “planning review” into Stage 2 will lead to high-rise development along the proposed corridor and a population increase that will change the quality of life for Deakin residents in many ways. ....
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The hospital plan taken from the government website… highlighted, top left, in yellow (as the original diagram shows this area as blank) is the local school that someone is pretending not to be there. “When asked about ambulances being put on to small suburban streets with the local school being right there, the response was all about how wonderful the ambulance drivers are – and how they are well trained,” writes “Canberra Matters” columnist PAUL COSTIGAN. WHEN government bureaucrats present at community meetings, their spin and prepared lines do not go down well. Paul Costigan. This happened in March when a bureaucrat presented to the Inner South Canberra Community Council (ISCCC) on the expansion to the Woden Valley Hospital. ....
“Our family’s experience of the interaction between the mental health and the justice systems for our family member was as traumatic as the incident that led to them being held in custody,” says our lead letter this week. WE write to echo concerns of racism in the Alexander Maconochie Centre prison expressed in Jon Stanhope’s column “The shameful politicians who don’t give a stuff” (CN March 4). As Canberrans, we struggle to get a voice to be heard, but how do we alarm those who put this in the “way-too-hard basket”? The case Mr Stanhope outlined was not an isolated incident of strip searching a female detainee in view of male detainees. ....