18 May 09 | Library fiasco
So the Kingston Library aka the relocated Griffith Library will be a ''vibrant place'' (''Kingston library a vibrant space'', May 14, p9). So it should be at a cost of $7.1million.
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18 May 09 | Matt Andrews (Letters, May 13) must surely have been referring to Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth, not Ian Plimer's Heaven and Earth, when he wrote that a little investigation will reveal comprehensive d...
17 May 09 | Letters to the Editor
17 May 09 | THE FALLOUT from the ABC's Four Corners program on rugby league players continues to preoccupy the media.
16 May 09 | It is a fortunate person who so loves his or her vocation that he/she is willing to keep working at it even after becoming eligible for retirement.
16 May 09 | Letters to the Editor
15 May 09 | Treasurer Wayne Swan used a rather unfortunate analogy this week to explain the Federal Government's approach to coping with the global recession as he sold his second budget. For the Pineapple Mafia ...
15 May 09 | TOP WRITING TECHNIQUES
Congratulations to Aranda Primary for teaching good techniques when holding a pencil or pen (''Teachers, pupils face testing time with national exams'', May 13, p3). It is espe...
15 May 09 | Power shifts
In an address to the National Press Club on Monday, National Party Senator Barnaby Joyce recommended that regions should replace ''bankrupt'' states and one level of government in Austra...
15 May 09 | I commend Channel Nine for the stance they have taken by standing down Matthew Johns.
It was generally considered in many parts of this country that the television organisation would do little to p...
15 May 09 | Congratulations to Environment Minister Simon Corbell and the ACT Government (''ACT to aim for zero gas target'', May 12, p1) for adopting the goal of a carbon-neutral Canberra.
With the highest lev...
14 May 09 | Medical records
Frustrated patients such as Merrill Moore (Letters, May 12), who have been denied access to their medical records and have sought to keep the issue alive in the media, might wish to r...
14 May 09 | Proposals to improve Australian health care have a habit of ending in public slugfests over systems of hospital funding. The current dispute over the future of Calvary Hospital is a case in point. The...
14 May 09 | BIKE-BUS BABBLE
David Turbayne (Letters, May 12) says that the policy of allowing bike riders to travel free on buses (when using bike racks) has encouraged more cycling. Hello! If their bikes are ...
14 May 09 | The mere act of mining coal discharges large volumes of methane (which we all know is 20 times more effective as a greenhouse gas than CO2), largely uncontrolled, to atmosphere.
In underground worki...
14 May 09 | Hope isn't the only thing that floats (''Hope floats on an ocean of debt'', May 13, p1). It was people taking on more debt than they could afford that resulted in the global fiscal crisis and now the...
13 May 09 | Michael Sage (Letters, May 11) asks where the climate researchers with open minds are. The simple answer is that they are to be found in CSIRO, the Hadley Centre, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, all over the world in their thousands.
13 May 09 | STRANGE BEDFELLOWS
I find it odd that the European Union, with its Balkan members (Bosnia, Croatia and (soon) Serbia) and some other shaky states, ''is particularly active ... in assisting Australia...
13 May 09 | ALP is hypocritical
Several years back I wrote regularly about the behaviour of the James Hardie company and the ALP and their associated lobbyists.
Hardie sought tax deductions to which it was ...
13 May 09 | One hesitates to disagree too sharply with Jack Waterford (''20 years on, Assembly still faces hurdles'', May 9, p7). But in discussing 20 years of self-government, he says the ACT Liberals are co...