27 May 09 | Jenny Macklin's proposed Federal Government takeover of the town camps in Alice Springs (''Alice Springs camp move attacked'', May 25, p3) is the ultimate political hypocrisy in the NT intervention de...
26 May 09 | Clean coal and renewables will not cut it, Leslie Kemeny writes.
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26 May 09 | I refer to a story in The Canberra Times about a study carried out for the Minerals Council of Australia on the effects on jobs of the proposed emissions trading scheme with the 5per cent reduction ...
25 May 09 | New climate change agreement can act as a template, Gwynne Dyer writes.
25 May 09 | Ethologist and Nobel Prize winner Konrad Lorenz once said that the yardstick of how high a civilised society has developed is to observe how it treats its animals.
The more respect, consideration an...
24 May 09 | Letters to the Editor
24 May 09 | IT IS NOT enough that a generation of workers are seeing hard-earned superannuation funds shrinking.
21 May 09 | In its budget handed down earlier this month, the ACT Government clearly focused on projects providing direct economic stimulus to the territory as well as potential environmental benefit.
The Tune U...
21 May 09 | AMERICAN EXECUTION
Another person, Dennis Skillicorn, is to be legally executed in the American state of Missouri. Again we have to ask, how can any nation call itself civilised when it deprives its...
21 May 09 | I read with great interest Diane Streak's article ''Canberra orchestra wants to even score'' (May 16, p1) regarding funding for the Canberra Symphony Orchestra.
I am sure that we in Darwin, and in ...
21 May 09 | Chinese spin
Congratulations to the Canberra Centre Management for not allowing our spaces to be used for Chinese Government propaganda purposes.
Recently an exhibition of Tibet Past and Present wa...
21 May 09 | David Griffiths and Raelene Ritchie make valid points about the drop in numbers at the Australian National Botanic Gardens (''Gardens losing their bloom for visitors'', May 19, p6) when they cite dro...
20 May 09 | This week's Nielsen opinion polls will have an essentially relaxed and comfortable Kevin Rudd, facing some evidence that his high general popularity can change according to circumstance, looking with ...
20 May 09 | FOR SHAME, RACING VICTORIA
Jumps racing is not an ''extreme sport'' it's a gambling industry based on the exploitation and the certain death of horses. Shame on Racing Victoria.
Mike O'Shaughnessy...
20 May 09 | Cycle of money
Alex Millmow (Swan's budget leaves no ace up Government's sleeve,'' May 18, p9) is having a dollar each way. Suggesting government spending is a gamble ignores the fact that not to spe...
20 May 09 | The decision by the ACT Government and road user groups to adopt the Swedish Government's ''Vision Zero'' approach (''European model drives debate on cutting road toll'', May 15, p7, and Editorial, M...
20 May 09 | Having worked for the city that is Canberra some years ago, I am totally unconvinced by the argument of Bogey Musidlak (Letters, May 14), that we need 17, 21 or 25, elected people to manage roads, ra...
18 May 09 | When Wayne Swan says it will be seven years before the budget is back into balance you know he means he can never achieve this. Still less can he build the surpluses to pay back the hundreds of bill...
18 May 09 | TRANSIENT NATURE OF THINGS
Recent attention to the ''temporary deficit'' leads to a recognition that the surplus was temporary too. These things come and go; surpluses wax, deficits ''wayne''.
Pete...
18 May 09 | Jenny Stewart's article, ''How to tame the demon drink'' (May 12, p11), on the culture of heavy drinking among our youth reminded me of when I went to England in the 1960s and stayed at a YMCA and...