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It's been a tough few days to be Canberra Liberals leader Elizabeth Lee, with twin sagas involving one former and one-aspiring party MLA engulfing her week. This morning Jasper Lindell ponders what she and her party could have done differently and the effect this no good, very bad week will have on her hopes of being our next chief minister. Still on ACT politics, the government says it wants to boost the city's nightlife and is pledging to cut liquor licence fees in half for Canberra venues with space for up to 350 people if they showcase artists and live music. And the Liberals are promising doctors would receive more training and education time if they were elected, Lucy Bladen reports.
Coles and Woolies together have interests in more than 150 sites around the country earmarked for future supermarkets, an ACCC inquiry has found. Brittney Levinson says the question of whether having so many future sites is considered "land banking" is yet to be determined.
Opinion writer Jenna Price asks why the Labor government seems to be heading in one direction while its likely voters are heading the other. We have a "cranky, controlling - and yes, conservative - prime minister", Jenna says. In sport news, a lucky member of the Raiders staff is off to Las Vegas on a reconnaissance mission ahead of next year's visit, David Polkinghorne reports, and one of Canberra's sporting clubs has lashed the "humiliating" facilities at their home ground. John-Paul Moloney, managing editor | 