Student journalist Stephanie L. Anderson reports on the endorsement of the Minister for Education and Training by the CEC. Chair of the Catholic Education Commission, Mr Daryl Smeaton has praised the appointment of Joy Burch as the new Minister for Education and Training. “This appointment will help elevate the portfolio as the sector enters a [...]
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Negative Campaigning
It seems politicians these days have a lot to say about each other, specifically the downfalls and failures of their opposing party, argues student journalist Lucia Coleman. The recent ACT election witnessed the Canberra Liberals’ campaign that spread idea of that our rates will triple when Labor and the Greens took government. Professor Ian McAllister, [...]
READ MOREACT Election has not yet inspired Cuban insult
José Antonio Gonzalez wrote the worst insult a Spanish speaker can make on his Cuban ballot paper. Student journalist Conor Hickey takes on the dry topic of electoral analysis and wonders whether ACT voters could be bothered to write insults on their ballot papers.
READ MOREDid Twitter win the ACT election?
Student journalist Aggie Bradshaw questions whether social media campaigning directly affect the outcome though or does suggesting this just make us all feel better about being addicted to the fast-paced world of Twitter? When looking over election results and campaigning efforts in the lead up to the ACT election in October, it became obvious the impact that social [...]
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Who listens to political messages?
Student journalist Aggie Bradshaw explores the issue of political communication in the ACT election.
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Brindabella argy bargy
A look at Zed Seselja’s move into the Brindabella electorate by student journalist Nicole Merrilees.
READ MOREKula takes the LEGO Challenge
Next ACT wandered down to Digress restaurant and bar in Civic last Wednesday night to watch one of ACT Labor’s candidates for Molonglo, Mark Kulasingham, take The RiotACT’s LEGO Challenge. Check out the RiotACT’s LEGO Challenge coverage by John Griffiths. About a dozen campaign t-shirt-wearing ALP supporters turned up to cheer on Kulasingham, and they [...]
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Ninjas are OK, too
The second round of the RiotACT’s LEGO Challenge took place on Tuesday night, with the Pirate Party ACT’s Mark Gibbons testing his LEGO mettle. Mark was seconded by Kate Valentine; also in attendance were Stuart Biggs (PPAU-ACT’s President), Glen Takkenberg (PPAU-ACT Secretary) and a smattering of other supporters and ‘observers’ (Liberal’s Matt Watts and Labor’s Elias Hallaj). Like [...]
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Assembling Civic
Politics, LEGO and a few beers, all to a heavy metal soundtrack. We got our collective political geek on at the first RiotACT ‘LEGO Challenge’ of the forthcoming ACT Election. The ACT election is on the 20th of October and Canberra-based hyperlocal news site RiotACT is running a ‘LEGO Challenge’ for candidates to assemble their vision [...]
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