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Articles by Chester Ward
Bucking the Trends in Business: Achieve Homes
In an industry that’s renowned for its fancy marketing campaigns, flashy display homes and sneaky sales agents who have a habit of over-promising and under-delivering, there’s one home builder in Canberra who’s doing things a little differently—Achieve Homes. While most new home builders’ primary focus is to get you to sign on the dotted line before worrying about whether they can feasibly deliver on their promises, this home builder prefers to adopt a more ‘real’ approach.
Tragic Canberra death among those to spark call for national strategy to prevent harm in nursing homes-The RiotACT
The tragic death of a 94-year-old man in a Canberra aged care home in January 2012 was among the preventable deaths examined in a landmark study of deaths in Australian nursing homes released today. Last year an ACT coronial inquiry was held into the death of Charles McCulloch who was found beaten in his bed the day after he was moved into the high-needs dementia ward at the Jindalee Aged Care Residence in Narrabundah.
Pokies, politicians and the ACT Election
I spent many weekends and Friday nights in clubs with my brother and my parents growing up in Tuggeranong. Our local clubs would often be our ‘go to’ places for family dinners out. Venues like the Southern Cross Club, Vikings Club and Mawson Club. My brother and I also played junior sport through the clubs. Junior rugby and cricket with the Vikings was something we always looked forward to each weekend. I grew up around clubs. This meant that I also grew up around pokies. This is a common story.
Election count over: Bourke out; Le Couteur, Lawder in
Elections ACT has this afternoon completed the distribution of preferences for the ACT Legislative Assembly election, confirming that the Liberals’ Nicole Lawder is returned in Brindabella, that former Labor minister Chris Bourke’s political career is over and that Shane Rattenbury will have a Greens colleague in the chamber with him this Assembly in Caroline Le Couteur.
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