24 Oct 09 | Like all decisions made on the run, there is nothing pretty about Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's attempts to head off the current stream of asylum seekers headed for Australian shores. To
24 Oct 09 | The ACT college reform plan (''Plan to split college system'', October 22, p1) is a brilliant idea and if implemented will solve a lot of community angst concerning youth unemployment and job
18 Oct 09 | Elephant on the boat
LIKE other journalists, Danielle Cronin ( ''Refugees Hit in Whip of Frenzy'', October 16, p23) appears not to want to mention the elephant on the boat with the
18 Oct 09 | AS THE so-called floodgates open for refugees to wash over Australian shores, so too has opinion flooded the letters pages of this and many other newspapers around the country.
How quick
17 Oct 09 | Kevin Rudd's decision to try and match the Opposition in being ''tough'' on asylum-seekers is self-defeating.
17 Oct 09 | Australian obstetrician and gynaecologist Catherine Hamlin is thankful to still be carrying out surgery at the age of 85.
15 Oct 09 | It is rare nowadays for Opposition backbencher Philip Ruddock to appear in the media spotlight, for which many people may feel thankful. But the former immigration minister and attorney-general can always be relied on for a public comment in defence of the policies which he discharged so assiduously while serving in government.
15 Oct 09 | Hazards of trees
11 Oct 09 | THE DECISION to award the Nobel Peace Prize to United States President Barack Obama has attracted disbelief, outrage, insult and support in equal measure.
Hours after the announcement, many
11 Oct 09 | A man of war?
WHY IS Barack Obama on the front page of The Canberra Times? What has he done to 1) deserve the Nobel Peace Prize and 2) usurp our front page?
10 Oct 09 | The tree in Corroboree Park which Rosslyn Beeby reported the felling of (''Ainslie residents dispute tree felling'', October 3, p3), was a magnificent specimen, and a special tree to me.
10 Oct 09 | It was not surprising that John Hargreaves should have cited fatigue from ''negative media attention'' as the main reason for his resignation from cabinet on Thursday. He was the subj
05 Oct 09 | The NT police inquiry into the asylum-seeker boat fire raises more questions than it answers. While exonerating the navy of any wrongdoing, it claims film footage of events showing naval per
05 Oct 09 | The purchase of Calvary public hospital by the ACT Government from the Little Company of Mary, which has managed it since inception, was inevitable once the ACT Government determined its, no
03 Oct 09 | Malcolm Turnbull has embarked on a classic ''crash through or crash'' approach on climate change. Following in the footsteps of eminent political leaders such as Labor's Gough Wh
03 Oct 09 | As a soil scientist I appreciated the breadth of your editorial (''Red Storm carries a food warning'', Forum, p12, September 26) on this continent's future productive capacity. May I make so
27 Sep 09 | Online future off course
THE ARTICLE about the future of information and technology (''The future's out there'', September 26, Forum, p4) may be a little optimistic, at least as far as Australia's future is concerned. To begin with, the proposed National Broadband Network will only allow us to catch up with the rest of the developed world and even if the plan for mandatory...
27 Sep 09 | OPTIMISM. Is there a word more often employed to capture the Australian spirit?
A nation of battlers, a well-worn platitude but well-earned nonetheless.
The she'll-be-right attitude has carried Australia through war years, through stretches of drought. Through fire and flood.
26 Sep 09 | The arboretum's Tree Advisory Panel, which I chair, is as concerned as Ron Gray (Letters, September 21) that the trees established at the site survive and flourish under our likely future c
26 Sep 09 | Sydney residents woke to a red dawn on Wednesday; a dramatic pall of dust that one tabloid newspaper described as being akin to a ''dusty doomsday''. It was indeed an awe-inspiring si