About Ian Bushnell
Ian Bushnell is a career journalist and a former News Editor and Chief of Reporting staff at The Canberra Times, where he was at the centre of some of the capital’s biggest stories.
A Canberra resident since 1995, he and his partner have raised three children here and takes a keen interest in politics, urban development, health, education and sustainability issues.
He has found Canberra to be the most liveable city in Australia, and that it’s a reputation worth fighting for.
He enjoys the ACT’s bush environment and its rich cultural offerings including music, theatre and sport, although as a Collingwood supporter the Giants will always be that other Sydney team.
A lover of fine reds, he believes Canberra is blessed to have so many great wineries on our doorstep.
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Singapore Airlines is keen to restart its direct service to Canberra but the carrier is still rebuilding its international network after the pandemic, according to Chief Minister Andrew Barr, back from leading the ACT's latest trade mission to the island state. Mr Barr said the issue of direct flights and what the ACT could do to restore the link was...
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Canberra Business Chamber has again won an ACT Government contract to help local businesses develop export markets, but this time the term has been extended to enhance its ability to kickstart the Territory's export activity so disrupted by the pandemic. Chamber CEO Graham Catt said that coming out of the pandemic, when businesses would be trying to restore broken trade...
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The COVID-19 pandemic has finished off a Canberra cleaning company that has serviced the disability and aged care sector for about 30 years. GeeJayGee Pty Limited, trading as All Suburbs Private Home Care, which contracted cleaning services to organisations such as Communities@Work and BaptistCare, is being wound up. Tony Lane of Beacon Advisory has been appointed liquidator. Mr Lane said...
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The Health Department's technology chief is leaving the Australian Public Service for a leadership role with Canberra IT services and artificial intelligence firm xAmplify. xAmplify says Daniel Keys will join the company on 1 March 2022 as Head of Futures and Innovation. In his current role as the Chief Information Officer (CIO) at Health, Mr Keys has been instrumental in...
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Wealth management firm Dixon Advisory has been forced into voluntary administration due to mounting liabilities arising from potential damages from class actions, consumer claims and penalties owing to the corporate watchdog. Dixon Advisory and Superannuation Services Pty Limited (DASS), a wholly-owned subsidiary of E&P Financial Group Limited, told the Australian Stock Exchange that it had appointed PwC Partners, Stephen Longley...
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The office may never be the same after COVID-19. Not only is the hybrid workplace likely here to stay, but the layout, fitout and facilities of the traditional office are going to have to change. Canberra's COVID-19 lockdown has hit the national capital's office occupancy worse than other Australian cities, plummeting from 73 per cent to 8 per cent of...
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Chief Minister Andrew Barr has promised another big-spending Budget to support the Territory's economic recovery from the impacts of the pandemic and create more jobs. Mr Barr also told business leaders in his State of the Territory address today that the government would be doing all it could to attract skilled workers to the capital while overseas migration is on...
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Rising Canberra-based IT outfit The Factor has boosted its public sector credentials with the addition to its leadership team of former Microsoft and Citadel Group executive Robert Hartley, who has strong defence and intelligence connections. Former Veritec chief executive Keiran Mott founded The Factor last year to provide business design, digital advisory and transformation and app development services to federal...
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Canberra has snared an unprecedented three national planning awards and a commendation in hotly contested competition that highlights the national capital's prowess for innovation. High-profile inner-city projects and software used throughout Australia and overseas have been recognised in the Planning Institute of Australia’s national finals broadcast in a special YouTube presentation on Monday, 24 May. Campbell 5 was a joint...
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The ACT's tourism industry is bouncing back after COVID-19 restrictions, travel bans and border closures shredded the number of visitors to the national capital. Chief Minister and Tourism Minister Andrew Barr said a range of data was pointing to a recovery in the sector, assisted by government initiatives to attract more visitors to the region, better air connections and more...
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Dampened public service wage growth may take the steam out of the ACT's booming economy, according to the latest Deloitte Access Economics business outlook. A bigger Australian Public Service during the public health response to the pandemic has been good for Canberra, but those numbers have been declining as the crisis recedes, and Deloitte says the scrapping of the 2...
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Growing Canberra tech firm Trellis Data is set to take its cutting edge artificial intelligence (AI) platform to the world after securing a significant capital injection, including $3 million from the CSIRO's innovation fund. The funds boost will accelerate the company's expansion and fuel further development of its world-leading machine learning technology. The Trellis Intelligence Platform interprets and provides intelligence...
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The Canberra startup behind a website forged in the intensity of the 2019-2020 bushfires that became a national sensation is now on the hunt for capital to make it commercially viable while retaining its original community service mission. The popularity of Bushfire.io during the Black Summer spread like the wildfires it tracked, alerting communities across the nation to the location...
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More support for innovative thinking, greater certainty for industry and community and the encouragement of diverse housing choices are top of mind for the new head of the ACT Property Council, Arabella Rohde. With more than 20 years experience in the property and construction sector, Ms Rohde, Senior Development Manager at Lendlease Development, is the first woman to be elected...
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According to the Canberra Business Chamber, Canberra businesses impacted by the COVID-19 economic downturn were still in need of support from the ACT Government. Canberra Business Chamber CEO Graham Catt said the Budget could have done more for businesses hit hard by COVID-19 to help them recover. ''Now we’re in a recovery phase we need a focus on initiatives that...
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The ACT faces a long period deep in the red despite the ACT Government's delayed Budget for 2020-21 showing a better than expected bottom line but big deficits, albeit reducing, stretching out to 2023-24. While the 2020-21 deficit is $300 million less than the nearly billion dollars forecast in the August update, at $603 million, deficits will persist over the...