21/11/2008 | The White Ribbon Foundation report An Assault on Our Future (''Violence against women not a big deal'', November 17, p1) blames, inter alia, the media and pornography for the tolerant attitudes of s...
21/11/2008 | It is cheaper to build power plants close to sources of energy and to where the energy is consumed.
A gas-fired power station in the Canberra area makes little sense because the gas will come from Q...
21/11/2008 | Our entitlements
On the matter of Australia and the United States working together in an effort to prevent Syria building an atomic power plant, Robert Willson (Letters, November 19) argues, in essen...
21/11/2008 | LOOK TO OTHER OPTIONS
Telstra wants to blackmail the Australian Government about its participation in the broadband project. I hope the Government stands firm.
In my opinion, anyone but Telstra.
...
19/11/2008 | Thanks to John Langmore (''Budget policy in obsessive trap'', November 17, p15) for his sensible article on surpluses and deficits.
He uses the word ''shibboleth'' to describe our erstwhile obsessio...
19/11/2008 | Violence to women
''Violence against women 'not a big deal''', (November 17, p1) if readers persevered past this dismissive headline to paragraph four of the article, they would have found that thi...
19/11/2008 | P. Robinson's assertion (Letters, November 18) that abortions are the moral equivalent to the use of the death penalty is entirely incorrect.
There is a profound difference between the two.
While ...
19/11/2008 | THINK OUTSIDE MARKET SQUARE
What a shame the financial meltdown didn't have world leaders looking at taking this once in a lifetime opportunity to move to a more broadly based system that isn't relia...
18/11/2008 | Is there not a single journalist or economics commentator who sees a problem with the G20 meeting to fix the global economic crisis?
Every government action to date has failed, and many have had adv...
18/11/2008 | It shouldn't be surprising that Technical Real Estate still seems keen to maintain its data hub project in Canberra (editorial, November 15, pB6).
That ACT Government departments, ActewAGL and ass...
18/11/2008 | Rudd's suspense
Out here in frontier Queanbeyan, in the pubs, clubs and betting shops, we can think of little else to discuss but the must-be-soon revelations of what our brave new Rudd-led world wil...
18/11/2008 | IT'S NOISY ENOUGH
Regardless of the reassurances of Tralee project manager Ken Ineson, anybody who lives in Tralee should lose any right to whinge (''Boom town: Tralee gets nod'', November 14, p1). ...
17/11/2008 | WISE TO FEAR JUDGMENT
Further to Graeme Rankin's question (Letters, November 14) regarding same-sex couples, I suggest that Senators Fielding and Joyce are among the dwindling number of truly wise ...
17/11/2008 | Humphrey McQueen's critique of Brian Matthew's Manning Clark: A Life (''Not meeting the history man'' Panorama November 15, p11) is a boring response to what seems like an exciting read.
Who cares...
17/11/2008 | Question time trial
According to an ABC news report, the Senate is to have a two-week trial of new rules for question time, one being that all answers must be directly relevant to the question.
The...
16/11/2008 | Rudd hiding in vain
THE MORE Kevin Rudd tries to dissociate himself from the leaked phone call to George Bush, the deeper he is drawn into the mire.
14/11/2008 | What a cold and calculating bunch of hypocrites are those in the Rudd Government, who have now self-righteously decided to launch a ''new'' campaign for a global moratorium on capital punishment just ...
14/11/2008 | The FuelWatch debate is a parable for these uncertain economic times.
The debate perfectly highlights the stark difference between left and right political thinking.
It's a crucial difference tha...
14/11/2008 | The oaf of office
What an apt and telling phrase of Maureen Dowd's in her article on the woes of Washington (''Lincoln regains the gleam in his eye'', November 10, p11): ''the president and vice-pres...
14/11/2008 | CELEBRATE SAFELY
Schoolies may have left school but their education is far from over.
Drinking of alcohol poisons the liver, and it destroys the millions of neurons in the brain that are irreplace...
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