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Losing the Nelson touch

28 Aug 09 | With Brendan Nelson gone, there'll be fewer moderates, Danielle Cronin writes.

Downgrading trains for real estate a poor exchange

28 Aug 09 | Now is not the right time if there could ever be one to be downgrading Canberra's rail transport connection for the sake of a large lump of real-estate money (''End of the line for Kingsto

Letters to the Editor - General

Shot down in flames

27 Aug 09 | In the anger over the alleged terrorist’s release, the fact that he was a scapegoat of two governments remains

Editorial - General

PBS omission makes an active lifestyle too expensive

27 Aug 09 | Today I visited my GP for a repeat prescription of my Hormone Replacement Therapy medication. I was advised that the Rudd Labor Government had removed all types of HRT from the Pharmaceu

Letters to the Editor - General

Our democratic system fails us

26 Aug 09 | Two important changes are needed to make governments accountable to Parliament, BEDE HARRIS writes

Editorial - General

Bidding a fond farewell to an Australian tradition

26 Aug 09 | Once again we need to congratulate our highly-regarded local government, and especially minister John Hargreaves, for having the courage to stand up for the boring minority and t

Letters to the Editor - General

Reality closes in on hope

25 Aug 09 | RAMESH THAKUR asseses Hamid Karzai’s chances of success should he win a second term as Afghanistan’s president

Editorial - General

Remember the shooting down of Iran Air Flight 655

25 Aug 09 | At the same time as US officials are fulminating at the early release of Abdel Baset al-Magrahi after his conviction and imprisonment relating to the death of 270 persons at Lockerbie in 1988,

Letters to the Editor - General

Can't just add water

24 Aug 09 | Thorough policy reforms and major investments are needed to keep water flowing. |

Comments (1) | $7b in renewable energy works ... | Gorgon no threat to species: ...

Editorial - General

A carbon tax would be better than emissions trading

24 Aug 09 | I am disappointed that the Coalition and Greens refused to vote for the Rudd Government's emissions trading scheme in the Senate. Don't they know how important it is to reduce emissions

Letters to the Editor - General

Letters to the Editor

22 Aug 09 | Only a couple of years ago, it was estimated by Marsden Jacob in a report for the Federal Government on water pricing that water in Canberra should cost no more than $1.56 per kilolitre and that was an estimate which double counted by assuming we had to pay for the water supply system all over again from scratch, that is it estimated what should be the full or total cost of water supply in each city if we had to replace or replicate the entire system.

Letters to the Editor - General

Business realities anchor China ties

22 Aug 09 | Australia's bilateral relationship with China, hitherto regarded as warm and productive, has become decidedly problematic since the arrest last month of Australian mining executive Stern Hu in Shanghai.

Editorial - General

Promises yet to be delivered

21 Aug 09 | The Government's first-term report card shows they’re only just scraping through.

Editorial - General

Tackling terrorism through transits

21 Aug 09 | Tn the fallout of the recent terror raids in Melbourne and the ensuing investigations, we would be wise to reflect again on the possible motivations of those who would perpetrate acts of |

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Editorial - General

Why the big secret? No consultation in ASIO plans

21 Aug 09 | The visual of the Griffin Plan Amendment 60 printed in John Thistleton's article on the ASIO building (''Secret Manoeuvres'', Forum, August 15, pp 4-5), reveals a plan for Section 49,

Letters to the Editor - General