Letters to the Editor
04 Apr 09 | About that bridge. It seems to be accepted without question that we need to honour our migrants with some monument. Can someone explain why?
03 Apr 09 | Congratulations Warren Feakes (Letters, March 31), you read a sample of Convincing Ground by Bruce Pascoe; and managed to re-affirm your already ill-informed perception of Australian history. Rather s...
02 Apr 09 | As a resident of Canberra for 30 years, I am vigorously opposed to the proposal to build an immigration bridge over Lake Burley Griffin (''Clamour to scuttle bridge proposal'', March 31, p1).
The br...
01 Apr 09 | A five year-old girl goes to school and comes home bloody from a beating; she won't be able to eat normally for over a week due to the injuries to her mouth. The beating was administered by her teache...
31 Mar 09 | Since ACTEW needs permission from four agencies, the ACT, NSW and federal governments, plus Snowy Hydro, before some of what little water there is in Tantangara Reservoir is channelled its way, wouldn...
30 Mar 09 | In 1929, Ludwig von Mises dean of the Austrian School of Economics turned down a job with the Kreditanstalt Bank saying, ''A great crash is coming, and I don't want my name in any way connected with...
29 Mar 09 | Train plan off rails
WE CANBERRANS are fortunate to have The Canberra Times alerting us to government plans which appear to dud our interests and happiness.
28 Mar 09 | The Defence Signals Directorate reportedly hacked into the computer of Defence Minister Fitzgibbon.
27 Mar 09 | Government ministers are given access to the most highly classified secrets without having to undergo a security clearance because to do otherwise would potentially thwart the wishes of the voters who...
26 Mar 09 | All my life I have pondered the question: how could the German people have knowingly tolerated the Holocaust in their midst?
While nothing in our experience compares with the industrial scale of the...
25 Mar 09 | Clive Williams (''Troop deployment should focus on volatile Pakistan'', March 23, p9) appears to recommend more Australian troops be sent to both Afghanistan and to Pakistan, though in his informativ...
24 Mar 09 | Further to Major-General (ret'd) Alan Stretton (Letters, March 18), the war in Afghanistan and Pakistan is unwinnable and without strategic purpose.
President Barack Obama reiterated last week that ...
23 Mar 09 | Primary Health Care is said to have changed the locks on the premises of Kippax Family Practice ''to protect'' my medical records which are ''being transferred to the Ginninderra clinic'' where I can ...
23 Mar 09 | The Government's response to climate change is indeed misguided, but not for the reasons given by Keith Orchison(''Rudd, Wong should trade in wasteful carbon vehicle'', March 18, p19).
Orchison foll...
22 Mar 09 | Praise misplaced
SOMETIMES one wonders if rational thought has been suspended.
During the period Australian troops served in Vietnam, elements of society blamed the soldiers as if they were the makers of Government policy.