Public servants will still be on the gravy train after election

The hype and hysteria about public service job losses is utter nonsense.

Letters to the Editor

No dignity in US wages

Tim Schildberger's touched on the reason for the difference in cost of things in Australia and the US - most Australian workers are paid a living wage.

Defence have special case for parking sites in Triangle

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR The argument to introduce paid parking in the Parliamentary Triangle cannot be applied to Defence Headquarters at Russell.

Drug elites favoured

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Are ACT politicians serious about alternatives to jail? My answer would be no.

Let the market decide

Letters to the editor Frank Zumbo says the ACT government abandoning part of its half-baked supermarket competition policy opens the way for direct community consultation on individual supermarket developments.

Employer demands vital for public service

It is predictable that the ACT government becomes jumpy any time there are threats to the public service economy.

May 12

Innocent victims

How dare these evil-minded ''PC'' people destroy older people's time with their grandchildren.

Driving home the point

Last Sunday's editorial ''Pointing the finger at Canberra's bad drivers'' (May 5) was thought-provoking.

Commonwealth initiatives require boots on the ground

It is not unreasonable, from a technical - as distinct from a political - point of view, for Tony Abbott to state that ''as many federal public jobs as reasonably possible should be located away from Canberra''. Your editorial (''The public service is not a pork barrel'', May 8, p2), quite sensibly, gives support in principle to such a move, subject, of course, to proper arrangements that make it possible for public servants and federal facilities and programs to be distributed Australia-wide.

Prices hit the roof

When are Australians going to understand that rising house prices are, if anything, a bad thing?

Social reforms shared

Crispin Hull usually manages a good argument but, in this case, seemingly not the facts.

Comcare is little help

Letters to the editor If governments are genuinely concerned about employee welfare, they should engage organisational psychologists.

Sharing compo costs

Letters to the editor Making changes to the way Comcare operates is a good idea.

Yes to a no-fault scheme

The ACT Law Society welcomes a no-fault catastrophic scheme for those injured in motor vehicle accidents.

May 5

Letters to the Editor

Parking bans and clearways might ease the gridlock but do not address the real problem, which is too many Sunday drivers (''Plan to end weekend gridlock'', April 28).

Letters to the Editor

It is the funding of the NDIS that is objectionable

Medicare (aka Medibank) was initially funded from general revenue. Healthcare for all Australians has now crept up to being 2.5 per cent of income (plus the need for expensive health insurance). Now our pollies want to add another 0.5 per cent for the NDIS. Easy for them, they don't live on average wages.

A little more will help pay for what benefits so many

Letters to the editor A society will be judged on how it cares for its less privileged and weaker citizens.

Levy to fund disability scheme: good news and bad

Letters to the editor The Gillard government should introduce a levy to fund its proposed disability scheme and Australians and the Parliament should support it.

Bangladesh disaster was partly made in Australia

Letters to the editor We consumers are to blame, at least in part, for this disaster.

Letters to the editor

Big political parties have it in for their small cousins

Nothing is perfect, but Tasmania's Hare-Clark system is by far the fairest electoral system in use.

Public debt is no free lunch, but argument is surplus

Letters Ross Gittins says that in time we'll need surpluses to pay off government debt. This is only partly true.

St John's stance on churchyard lacks Christian charity

St John's may provide ''charity day in and day out'' but this doesn't mean the church can deny people their lawful right.

Christian ethics don't apply when dealing with terrorists

Letters to the editor War is not a boxing match with Queensbury rules.

Only red tape keeps Frontier Wars from recognition

Letters to the editor An amendment to the act to include the Frontier Wars requires a simple stroke of a pen.

Being realistic will not rain on Anzac Day's parade

Criticism of ''Putting Anzac Day in its place'' misses the point entirely.

Boston not the only place to be bombed

Why does the carnage from car bombs in countries such as Iraq rate a fewer words than Boston attack?