20 Sep 09 | Let's see public debate
THE TREASURERS response to the figures showing the increasing Australian population projected for the future regrettably omits any recognition that such a future increase is unsustainable (''Booming population to hit 35 million in 40 years'', September 18, p1).
20 Sep 09 | HOW far we have come in the acceptance of human flaws. Where once the stigma attached to mental illness kept the ''black dog'' so deeply in the shadows, we now have more people stepping forward to highlight one of the more significant illnesses in modern society.
19 Sep 09 | Reports of the death of Noordin Mohammed Top may have been greatly exaggerated last month, but it appears South-East Asia's most dangerous terrorist is finally dead after a police ra
19 Sep 09 | The inevitable spin about how we have been saved from recession sounds like a repeat of a bad movie.
14 Sep 09 | Costs, risks and complications offer compelling reasons to firmly back moves for global disarmament, Ramesh Thakur writes
13 Sep 09 | Pollies party on
MY TEENAGE child was reading the report of the ''parliamentary party'' on the front page (''Party time: $580,000 for official events'', September 10) and asked why we didn't receive an invitation since we were paying for it.
13 Sep 09 | IT'S A SURE-fire way to get attention. Raise the spectre of uncertainty around child birth.
The idea that all carefully laid plans for that special delivery could be changed at the last minute sends a chill through any expectant mother.
12 Sep 09 | You excitedly report a six-week teacher training course for graduates in law, economics, science and arts (''Program puts pressure on to learn to be teachers in just six weeks,'' September 1
12 Sep 09 | For all the power and prestige of the American presidency, chief executives can struggle to implement their policy agendas.
12 Sep 09 | It's a piece of federal legislation that caused an acrimonious split among Australia's environment groups.
11 Sep 09 | If his credibility wasn't in tatters after the OzCar affair, Treasury official Godwin Grech's critique could have been devastating for the Federal Government.
09 Sep 09 | Australia's most powerful bureaucrat will turn to the private sector to improve the public service, but that won't solve his problems
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09 Sep 09 | The policy on Israel and the Palestinians needs a big shift, ANTONY LOEWENSTEIN writes
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09 Sep 09 | Gwendolyn Gray's letter (September 7) concerning health services should be compulsory reading for all involved in the development of health policy.
One particularly important but of
08 Sep 09 | Examining the implications of the DPJ's promise to take charge of policy development.
08 Sep 09 | The increased cost estimate for the Cotter Dam (''Stanhope shocked over that dam bill'', September 4, p1) and the political reaction to it come as no surprise given the history of the debacle
07 Sep 09 | The Afghan leader should make way for a new administration, Amin Saikal writes.
07 Sep 09 | The response to your editorial (''Fees a bitter pill'', August 28, p24), by Dr Philip Barraclough (Letters, August 29) contains a number of inaccuracies and misleading claims. However, the a
06 Sep 09 | ONCE again it seems the jostling for position in the medical practitioner field is getting nasty.
Doctors, some 420 of them, have signed a letter opposing legislation which would enable qualified nurse practitioners to perform general practice services independently.
06 Sep 09 | Get our priorities right
SHOULD not our Chief Minister Jon Stanhope remove his ''blinkers'' (''Govt tells bewildered traders to rack off'', August 28, p1) and focus more energy on get