Letters to the Editor
21 Aug 09 |
The visual of the Griffin Plan Amendment 60 printed in John Thistleton's article on the ASIO building (''Secret Manoeuvres'', Forum, August 15, pp 4-5), reveals a plan for Section 49,
20 Aug 09 | So as a step towards saving $20 billion the Department of Defence is to axe Duntroon's Beating the Retreat scheduled for 24 and 25 September (''Beat it: bean-counters march off with Duntroon tradition...
19 Aug 09 | Like Jon Stanhope, Victorian Premier John Brumby accepts no responsibility or accountability, either for himself or his fire chiefs, for faults revealed in the handling of the Black Saturday fires, pa...
18 Aug 09 | Once again the forces of political conservatism in Australia are employing the politics of fear against a reformist government this time stirring up concern about who is going to pay back the debt bu...
16 Aug 09 | Monstrous reminder
THE ARCHITECT of Parliament House may think ASIO's new headquarters is a monster (''Parliament architect attacks ASIO building 'monster''', August 15, p5), but maybe he should look...
15 Aug 09 | The current Opposition spin that it is an unreasonable and arrogant Federal Government which will not sit down and discuss attitudes to its climate-change proposals while accusing the Government of i...
14 Aug 09 | The new move by the Rudd Government to eliminate the warrant requirement for searches is a disgraceful assault on civil liberties from a government that really should know better.
Since September 11 ...
13 Aug 09 | It is extraordinary that the Government is being criticised by the Opposition for giving too little compensation to the big polluters.
The Opposition could have demanded more compensation for state ...
12 Aug 09 | Anthony Moore (Letters, August 10) calls for more debate on climate change , but this is not helped by his trotting out the same old, often-refuted denialist debating points.
He implies scientists ...
11 Aug 09 | I do not pretend to understand the government's carbon emissions trading scheme, however, putting our faith in economists and free markets as the government would have us do is misplaced. If the globa...
10 Aug 09 | The Government says its cap-and-trade emissions scheme is the primary means of meeting its carbon emissions goal. It says it will set its cap at 5 to 25per cent below emission levels in 2000. It wil...
09 Aug 09 | Paying for online news
RUPERT MURDOCH is reported (''News to charge for web access'', August 7, p20) as saying that News Corp's newspapers could no longer afford to give away the content on its news websites.
08 Aug 09 | Five published correspondents in two days Dianne Proctor (August 6) and Bryan Docherty, Sam Nona, Janice Watkins and G.J. Katz (August7) all seeking to excuse Godwin Grech, a forger who, had he bee...
07 Aug 09 | The tawdry political affair of the moment, constructed by the Leader of the Opposition and his cohort, continues to play out against the background of the character assassination of the misguided publ...
06 Aug 09 | On Tuesday, I listened to commentary on ABC Illawarra radio by a journalist who decried the false piety of the alleged terrorist who refused to stand for a Melbourne magistrate when brought before t...
05 Aug 09 | H. Ronald (Letters, July 31) wants three reasons why Kevin Rudd wants 16- and 17-year-olds to vote. Not sure about Kev's reasons but here are mine.
First, they are intellectually engaged across more ...
04 Aug 09 | Tim Curtin (Letters, July 31) quotes, as percentages, the rates of growth of annual net increases in the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide for the five decades 19602009.
Now, I'm no mathem...
03 Aug 09 | In the article ''Pushing nuclear option to a critical mass'' (July 25, p12), Cathy Alexander quotes Dr Mark Diesendorf as saying that solar farms are increasingly able to store energy and wind farm...
02 Aug 09 | Back in the dark ages
THE GOVERNMENT of Albania, a majority Muslim country, is preparing to legalise same-sex marriage and calls it an important move against discrimination. Meanwhile, in Kevin Rudd'...
01 Aug 09 | The article ''Govt 'bedazzled by the dollar' in race for students'' (July 28, p2) rightly highlights immigration as the root cause of the present problems with the overseas student program.