Letters to the Editor
22 Jun 09 | Australia must match the US by going to the Copenhagen conference in December with a position on greenhouse gas emissions abatement that is legislated by the Parliament and not merely supported by the...
21 Jun 09 | More important matters
I AM appalled to read and hear about Malcolm Turnbull going after Kevin Rudd on the use of a ute given to him during the election campaign by one of his friends who happened to be a car dealer.
20 Jun 09 | Bongs, needles and drugs in the new prison (''Needles, bong in new jail already", June 18, p1)? Surely not! I jest, I would be more surprised if there were not these items in prison.
19 Jun 09 | The Lyons public/private development joint venture puts the ACT Government in an undesirable conflict of interest position.
We elect/appoint (and pay) our Government to run the ACT for the general g...
18 Jun 09 | It was with disgust that I read Senator Humphries's comments on the immigration bridge (''Humphries backs monument to migrants'', June 16, p3). He focuses on a few minor points made against the bridge...
17 Jun 09 | Your Business Editor John Thistleton describes rising house prices as ''positive'' and ''healthy'' (''Narrabundah home's magic million tag'', June 15, p1).
They aren't they're negative, and sick. ...
16 Jun 09 | Bryan Cossart (Letters, June 11) complains about the ''shivering smokers'' he had to pass in the entryway to the airport after his smoke-free ride in the aircraft, and his smoke-free passage through t...
15 Jun 09 | The deaths of two people over three days on Canberra's roads are both tragic and bitterly ironic, coming right after the Chief Minister's recent Road Safety Roundtable. There, Jon Stanhope expressed t...
14 Jun 09 | What about the trees?
SO, $60MILLION is needed to finish the arboretum.
Has resourcing the ACT's arboretum taken precedence over maintaining the ailing and unkempt trees, parks and verges?
12 Jun 09 | Senator Steve Fielding has returned from a visit to the United States and it seems he has been persuaded that the rising atmospheric CO2 level is not influencing global warming.
If he is wrong and w...
11 Jun 09 | Jenna Price (Times 2, June 9, p2) captures a bundle of important truths in her column about international students. She sees the inside of the educational beast from key angles: as a parent, working...
10 Jun 09 | Why should we stop sensible people enjoying the only three days out of the year from using fireworks? By saying that we must ban fireworks because people are getting themselves injured, pets are goin...
09 Jun 09 | The underlying causes of Canberra being changed from a planned to an unplanned city, highlighted by Professor Jenny Stewart (''Growing growl on Lyons site'', June 1, p9), were disclosed in hearings ...
08 Jun 09 | Is there any more vilified group in our community than aged-care workers?
Watch Four Corners or read the letters in the Times and you could be forgiven for thinking that our residential facilities...
07 Jun 09 | Run for Defence money
06 Jun 09 | Letters to the editor
05 Jun 09 | There are a number of factual errors in the article ''Push to ease book costs to aid 'revolution''' (June 1, p1) which require a response.
The biggest threat to the Federal Government's education r...
04 Jun 09 | No one disputes that some cyanobacteria are toxic. However, the closure of Lake Burley Griffin to boaters because of concerns about inhaling cyanobacteria verges on the ridiculous. I have been unable...
03 Jun 09 | ACT Education Minister Andrew Barr (''Push to ease book costs to aid revolution'', June 1, p1) is taking a very short-term view of the Australian publishing industry and Australian culture in choosing...
02 Jun 09 | The greatest opportunity to date for Australia to take a lead role in the United States-led ''war on terror'' is in the Rudd Government agreeing with the Obama Administration's request to accept a gro...