Apology
Dr Maxine Cooper On August 12, we published a feature article by Rosslyn Beeby which suggested that Dr Cooper, the ACT Commissioner for Sustainability and the Environment, had breached her obligations as an independent statutory officer to “operate as a politically independent watchdog”.
No attempt was made to check our allegations with Dr Cooper before publication. The Canberra Times accepts that Dr Cooper has acted with integrity and is not politically aligned. The Canberra Times accepts that Dr Cooper neither enacted nor was responsible for the destruction of the East O’Malley woodlands; a bungled control burn; and the Gungahlin Drive extension. We acknowledge that the conclusions based on these untrue claims were unfair. Rosslyn Beeby and The Canberra Times apologise to Dr Cooper.
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