Letters to the Editor
29 Apr 09 | Catholic Archbishop Mark Coleridge (Letters, April 27) has a nerve writing about ''the good of all in the ACT'' concerning the publicly funded Calvary Hospital from his publicly funded Archbishop's H...
28 Apr 09 | The ACT Government has proposed to buy the public hospital at Bruce from Little Company of Mary Health Care and to sell to us Clare Holland House.
If the proposal is implemented, Calvary Health Care...
27 Apr 09 | The article ''Government slammed for lack of consultation'' (Canberra Times April 23, p.8) is misleading. Your journalist asked the ACT Planning and Land Authority for information regarding lake fore...
25 Apr 09 | Letters to the Editor
24 Apr 09 | I am confused. Aren't we involved in Afghanistan to make the place a safe democratic country for all Afghans to live in peace and harmony? If so, it would seem illogical to grant anything other than '...
23 Apr 09 | Kevin Rudd has, in his usual overblown style, described people smugglers as ''evil'' that can ''rot in hell''. I suppose we should be thankful that he did not describe them as ''the great moral challe...
22 Apr 09 | There is no doubt that as with cars and cyclists not mixing, neither do cyclists and pedestrians. On my quiet Sunday walk, as I started to extend my arm to indicate that I was turning right off the fo...
21 Apr 09 | Canberrans should be concerned that this city is now seen to be the new McMansion capital of Australia with the biggest houses in the nation (''City of McMansions'', April 19, p1).
Bigger houses ar...
20 Apr 09 | The Canberra Times' editorial ''Bipartisan effort to end dark days'' (April 13, p8) suggests that Malcolm Turnbull is not working in the interests of Australia and should be more supportive of the Gov...
19 Apr 09 | Supply is underwhelming
ONLY 25 per cent of eggs sold are free-range or barn-laid (''A paltry existence'', Forum, April 18, p6-7).
17 Apr 09 | While sympathetic to the police call to dob in dangerous drivers (''Police call on Canberrans to dob in dangerous drivers'', April 15, p1), until something changes, there is little point.
Due to res...
16 Apr 09 | Recent Letters contributors have written about residential redevelopment, rejecting multi-storeyed towers, with one contributor preferring ''low-rise, high-density''.
The latter could be code for wh...
15 Apr 09 | Canberrans are finding that the power of the mighty dollar is insidiously starting to destroy the legacy of yet another one of our most influential founders, Professor Lindsay Pryor the international...
14 Apr 09 | The announcement by the Australian Government that $43billion will be spent over the next eight years on the introduction of a new broadband facility is not unwelcome in a time when unemployment is on...
13 Apr 09 | I have been waiting for some word of compassion from our Government for the 150,000-200,000 people held hostage between the warring parties in north-east Sri Lanka; some word in support of their righ...
12 Apr 09 | Schools left out in coldACT EDUCATION minister Andrew Barr has said all ACT schools will be carbon neutral by 2017.
09 Apr 09 | Can anyone take the Federal Government seriously? Their recent spending tsunami is beyond belief. The proposed $43 billion super fast broadband network splurge ahead of more critical infrastructure ...
08 Apr 09 | While Graham Downie (''Revolutionary with spirit'', April 6, p10) identifies the resurrection correctly for many as the foundation belief without which there would be no Christianity, this is worth a ...
07 Apr 09 | The Children's Book Council of Australia announced its short list this week.
On the following day, I checked the ACT Public Library holdings for these books and found that of the 30 titles, 13 were...
06 Apr 09 | The dignified refusal of our Attorney-General Simon Corbell to be stampeded into joining NSW in reproducing the panicky South Australian bikie legislation brought to mind Rudyard Kipling's words about...