Letters to the Editor
11:10 AM AEDT | Yes, the ''Clayton's deal'' has ultimately borne fruit. However, Australians will never believe that a deal was not negotiated to induce the boat people to disembark from the Oceanic Viking.b
15 Nov 09 | Help, don't hurt
THE HARSH and judgmental article by Jim Wallace (''Stifling debate on gays'', November 13, p21), from a so-called Christian, is enough to make me weep. Where is the love and compassion?
14 Nov 09 | May I congratulate Daniel Reynolds, (''Champion Canberran baulks at life in the faster lane'', November 12, p24) and his father on their Australia No1 effort in the National Formula Vee motor
08 Nov 09 | Future is out there
WHEN Kevin Rudd and other world leaders meet at the climate change summit in Copenhagen next month, they should remember the words of futurist Peter Ellyard. He sa
07 Nov 09 | The study mentioned in your article (''Snows of Kilimanjaro may vanish in 20 years'', November 11, p6) disagrees with other studies on this subject.
01 Nov 09 | Wake-up call not heard
DANIELLE CRONIN suggests that the community has received a massive wake-up call about the epidemic of Type 2 diabetes (''No remedy from the Coalition'', Octobe
31 Oct 09 | Only a day or so after Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's very welcome call for the Commonwealth to take a much greater national responsibility for improving the long-term planning of our major cities (October 28, p6), we have Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner saying he would like to see an agency move to Gungahlin.
25 Oct 09 | Fat is not a happy word
THANK you, Heather Ford! (''High Cost of obesity demands a fat tax'', October 20, p11). It's always a relief to read an intelligent article on the link between obesity, and the quality and cost of food.
24 Oct 09 | The ACT college reform plan (''Plan to split college system'', October 22, p1) is a brilliant idea and if implemented will solve a lot of community angst concerning youth unemployment and job
18 Oct 09 | Elephant on the boat
LIKE other journalists, Danielle Cronin ( ''Refugees Hit in Whip of Frenzy'', October 16, p23) appears not to want to mention the elephant on the boat with the
17 Oct 09 | Kevin Rudd's decision to try and match the Opposition in being ''tough'' on asylum-seekers is self-defeating.
15 Oct 09 | Hazards of trees
11 Oct 09 | A man of war?
WHY IS Barack Obama on the front page of The Canberra Times? What has he done to 1) deserve the Nobel Peace Prize and 2) usurp our front page?
10 Oct 09 | The tree in Corroboree Park which Rosslyn Beeby reported the felling of (''Ainslie residents dispute tree felling'', October 3, p3), was a magnificent specimen, and a special tree to me.
05 Oct 09 | The NT police inquiry into the asylum-seeker boat fire raises more questions than it answers. While exonerating the navy of any wrongdoing, it claims film footage of events showing naval per
03 Oct 09 | As a soil scientist I appreciated the breadth of your editorial (''Red Storm carries a food warning'', Forum, p12, September 26) on this continent's future productive capacity. May I make so
27 Sep 09 | Online future off course
THE ARTICLE about the future of information and technology (''The future's out there'', September 26, Forum, p4) may be a little optimistic, at least as far as Australia's future is concerned. To begin with, the proposed National Broadband Network will only allow us to catch up with the rest of the developed world and even if the plan for mandatory...
26 Sep 09 | The arboretum's Tree Advisory Panel, which I chair, is as concerned as Ron Gray (Letters, September 21) that the trees established at the site survive and flourish under our likely future c
20 Sep 09 | Let's see public debate
THE TREASURERS response to the figures showing the increasing Australian population projected for the future regrettably omits any recognition that such a future increase is unsustainable (''Booming population to hit 35 million in 40 years'', September 18, p1).
19 Sep 09 | The inevitable spin about how we have been saved from recession sounds like a repeat of a bad movie.