Letters to the Editor
12 Jul 09 | Unsettling views
I FAIL to see why some of your correspondents are upset by the Prime Minister advocating in favour of the canonisation of Mary McKillop.
11 Jul 09 | The current debate about allowing tourists to climb Uluru is surprising.
10 Jul 09 | It is disappointing to see the Fair Pay Commission has frozen the minimum wage until June 2010 (''Wage decision a 'kick in the guts','' July 8, p2). In the past when the economy has been strong they ...
09 Jul 09 | What a total dishonest sham this Gillard-Rudd Government is.
Firstly there were the unemployed who didn't receive a brass razoo from either of the cash splashes.
One would have thought if the Gove...
08 Jul 09 | The news that the Council of Australian Governments will fine-tune alcohol regulations for indigenous communities as its response to the latest devastating statistics on Aboriginal welfare is underwhe...
07 Jul 09 | After the release of the new figures on indigenous disadvantage, the merits of the Rudd Government's continuation of the Howard government's Northern Territory intervention must come into question.
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06 Jul 09 | While the increased take-up of renewable energy may be a laudable policy objective, a levy on electricity customers to ensure some in the community receive a higher return on their investment in solar...
05 Jul 09 | Letters to the Editor
04 Jul 09 | Letters to the Editor
03 Jul 09 | The Independent Competition and Regulatory Commission is well off the mark in its criticism of Canberra's gross solar feed-in tariff (''ACT hit by green energy premium'', July 1, p1).
Support for so...
02 Jul 09 | It's one thing for John Passant, suspected of lefty leanings, to view President Sarkozy's call for a ban on the burka as merely a diversionary strategm for attacks on the French working classes: it's ...
01 Jul 09 | Congratulations to Virginia Haussegger for her call to arms to have the burka and the niqab banned in Australia (''Ban un-Australian burka'', Forum, June 27, p16). The role of the face in all human in...
30 Jun 09 | In your excellent editorial (''Backlash likely on school report cards'', June 29, p8) you rightly stress the right of parents to accurate information on scholastic achievement in choosing a school for...
29 Jun 09 | What a pity for Tibetans that they are not under Danish rule.
Imagine: Denmark has granted Greenland self-rule after 300 years under Danish authority.
The new agreement means Greenlanders (most of...
28 Jun 09 | Masking offensive
VIRGINIA HAUSEGGER (''Ban unAustralian burka'', Forum, June 27, p16) is spot on: ''Wearing the burka or niqab in Australia is an aggressive way of saying, 'I will not integrate into your society, and I care nothing for the cultural mores and social traditions of this country.' ... The burka is an arrogant display of disrespect to Australia and the Australian way of life.'' But I make another point: the wearing of the burka and the hijab is offensive to Australian men.
27 Jun 09 | I've heard of a molehill made into a mountain, but this ''Utegate'' is the Himalayas.
26 Jun 09 | Attempts by the acting chairman of the National Capital Authority, Professor Don Aitkin, (Letters, June 23) to placate concerned citizens over the siting and design of the new ASIO complex on ''Const...
25 Jun 09 | Once complaints about the Senate were pretty basic: Senators were droning on to an audience of only a few of their peers, some of whom would be nodding off at times perhaps reflecting the strains of ...
24 Jun 09 | The Administrative Appeals Tribunal has ruled the culling of kangaroos on Defence Department land in Canberra can resume (''Majura kangaroos back in firing line after tribunal upholds cull'', June 23,...
23 Jun 09 | Without entering into the particular case of John Grant, the Prime Minister and the Treasurer (''Honesty the basic issue behind email distraction'', June 21, p20) perhaps it's time to remind everyo...