Letters to the Editor
19 Sep 09 | The inevitable spin about how we have been saved from recession sounds like a repeat of a bad movie.
13 Sep 09 | Pollies party on
MY TEENAGE child was reading the report of the ''parliamentary party'' on the front page (''Party time: $580,000 for official events'', September 10) and asked why we didn't receive an invitation since we were paying for it.
12 Sep 09 | You excitedly report a six-week teacher training course for graduates in law, economics, science and arts (''Program puts pressure on to learn to be teachers in just six weeks,'' September 1
09 Sep 09 | Gwendolyn Gray's letter (September 7) concerning health services should be compulsory reading for all involved in the development of health policy.
One particularly important but of
08 Sep 09 | The increased cost estimate for the Cotter Dam (''Stanhope shocked over that dam bill'', September 4, p1) and the political reaction to it come as no surprise given the history of the debacle
07 Sep 09 | The response to your editorial (''Fees a bitter pill'', August 28, p24), by Dr Philip Barraclough (Letters, August 29) contains a number of inaccuracies and misleading claims. However, the a
06 Sep 09 | Get our priorities right
SHOULD not our Chief Minister Jon Stanhope remove his ''blinkers'' (''Govt tells bewildered traders to rack off'', August 28, p1) and focus more energy on get
05 Sep 09 | Manning Clark wrote ''after the giants come the pygmies'' as an established historic trend.
Canberra was set up as a model city to be the best in the world by men of vision such as King
04 Sep 09 | I am bemused as to why, on its own, Canberra and the surrounding region needs a 24/7 airfreight hub.
We are not an industrial region as such, and most, nearly all, of our freight imports
03 Sep 09 | The reported City Hill overhaul (''Trees get chop in City Hill overhaul'', August 29, p2) is yet another amazing ''cart before the horse'' fiasco by so-called professional planners in this c
02 Sep 09 |
Congratulations to all East Timorese people, including Carmen Monteiro, on the 10th anniversary of their independence from Indonesia (East Timor stands firm, August 29, p4).
It wa
01 Sep 09 | Someone needs to protest at the extravagant attack on ACT Health doctors and the public advocate by the ACT Chief Justice last week (''Judge slams Health over starvation case'', August 29, p
31 Aug 09 | I have been working in the arts industry for over 20 years.
In this time I have had the pleasure of being able to observe and contribute to the cultural and artistic life of Australia.
30 Aug 09 | Stake out the pavement
YOUR EDITORIAL (''CBD display ban threat to city soul'', August 28, p24) rightly credits the late Gus Petersilka as the man who gave Canberra its outdoor cafe s
29 Aug 09 | After presiding over the most disgraceful period on the protection of basic human rights in Australian political history, former prime minister John Howard (''Bill of Rights threatens democr
28 Aug 09 | Now is not the right time if there could ever be one to be downgrading Canberra's rail transport connection for the sake of a large lump of real-estate money (''End of the line for Kingsto
27 Aug 09 | Today I visited my GP for a repeat prescription of my Hormone Replacement Therapy medication.
I was advised that the Rudd Labor Government had removed all types of HRT from the Pharmaceu
26 Aug 09 |
Once again we need to congratulate our highly-regarded local government, and especially minister John Hargreaves, for having the courage to stand up for the boring minority and t
25 Aug 09 | At the same time as US officials are fulminating at the early release of Abdel Baset al-Magrahi after his conviction and imprisonment relating to the death of 270 persons at Lockerbie in 1988,
24 Aug 09 | I am disappointed that the Coalition and Greens refused to vote for the Rudd Government's emissions trading scheme in the Senate.
Don't they know how important it is to reduce emissions