The notice from Access Canberra reads: "Tree removal and replanting. The condition of this tree has deteriorated to the point when removal is required.

"Its removal has been scheduled and the site is to be replanted in line with seasonal conditions and availability of suitable planting sock. For further information please contact Access Canberra."

A message in texta retorts: "What do you expect when you never water them! Tree Nazis!"

Will ACT Greens leader Minister Rattenbury protest this action and save the trees ?

There does not appear to be anything currently affecting these beautiful trees and it is possible, I believe, to water the roots below the surface with modern technology. Perhaps the bureaucrats in the ACT government are not aware of this.

Canberra was once a pleasant, liveable city.

It is now becoming a glass and concrete nightmare.

The problem of fools driving and using mobile phones will never be eradicated until we hit these clowns in their wallets.

I almost got cleaned up recently by a driver backing out of a parking slot at the local supermarket. What was she looking at? Her phone while she was reversing.

She was totally oblivious to the fact I was behind her until I hit the horn.

The texters are an even bigger worry. I have lost count of the number of times I've been tailgated on the Monaro and looked in the rear-vision mirror to see the driver's head down texting on his or her phone.

These idiots are potential killers of me and mine. Drastic action is needed now before more innocents are wiped out.

"Education" is a waste of time. The recalcitrants will never respond. The solution is massive pecuniary penalties. $500 is a mere slap on the wrist.

Try $5000 for a first offence and then $20,000, car crushed, six months jail, plus a criminal record for a second.

That would get the attention of the irresponsible.

Your editorial was perhaps a little too harsh on the Labor Party ("Labor needs to state its 2030 carbon target", canberratimes.com.au, February 22).

Their decision to adopt a zero net emissions policy by 2050 is to be applauded, along with rejection of using carryover credits to meet Paris targets.

You ask what their 2030 target is and yet, if you draw a line on a graph from current emissions to zero in 2050, it passes almost right through 45 per cent reduction by 2030.

That's the policy they took to the last election. If emissions reduction is linear, then they are back with last year's policy.

While it is commendable, the question remains, will it be enough to stop catastrophic warming?

Former coal and oil executive Ian Dunlop argues that we are facing a climate emergency and that we need zero net emissions, not by 2050, but by 2030 - in a mere 10 years' time.

Scientists warned us last week that the Great Barrier Reef faces another major bleaching event if oceans, currently very warm, don't cool in the next two weeks.

How many more extreme events must we endure before we realise we have to take radical action to reduce emissions?

Bob Salmond (Letters, Feb 21) points out the inequity of the age pension assets test, which exempts the family home. He would like to bring homeowners into the means-testing tent, but offers the alternative proposal of a universal pension funded by removing tax concessions on super.

The Morrison Government is unlikely to give such direct offence to older homeowners or superannuants, when it has other ways of going after their assets.

Homeowning seniors pleasantly surprised by the Pension Loans Scheme, which provides generous reverse mortgages, may be less enthused when they realise it is to provide them with the means of making bigger contributions towards funding their aged care.

The same fate awaits superannuants, including those in the accumulation phase. If Frydenberg's Retirement Incomes Review recommends a boost to employer contributions look out for a proviso quarantining a portion of the increase to fund the superannuant's future care needs.

At the last election the ALP and Bill Shorten got caught on the horns of a "jobs vs climate" dilemma in the Adani mess. It was actually a great opportunity for national leadership but Labor missed it.

If we could learn anything from Bob Hawke, Paul Keating or even John Howard it would be their ability to bring people along. The ALP needed to explain how transitioning out of coal doesn't have to be a win-lose situation but could instead be a win-win outcome.

Labor, under Albanese, now needs to show how Australia can build a new economy based on taking realistic and effective action on climate change while not ruining the livelihoods of workers, their families and local businesses who currently depend on the resources and energy sectors. It won't be easy. It seems that their task has become even harder now given the emergence of the so-called OTIS group within their ranks.

All this soul searching and emission targets announced by Labor will be academic if it can't develop consistent, effective, fully costed and well articulated climate action, energy and jobs plans and policies before the next election. Vague and ambiguous "visions" and good intentions just won't cut it. Obviously, it also needs a sincere and effective salesperson (a true believer) who can take Australians with them.

It's sad now to hear repeated seriously, respectfully and enthusiastically what June Dally-Watkins charmingly avowed: that finishing-school etiquette and deportment were the key to "civility" in society.

Assuming she even ever thought it related to proper, "civilised" conduct, one wonders to what she would attribute the predatory opportunism ubiquitous in Australia today? An insufficient acquaintance with curtsies and cutlery choice perhaps?

Bettina Arndt OAM's comments on the recent murders of a woman and her three children are astonishing. She's attempting to excuse the inexcusable.

It is never acceptable, Ms Arndt, for any man or woman to incinerate a partner and three innocent young children in a car, irrespective of how far he or she may have "been pushed".

I'm appalled at this vile act. I don't accept Arndt's hysterical claim anyone outraged is doing so simply because they believe all men have "evil violence in them".

The sooner Arndt's hyperbolic "poor men" claims are consigned to the garbage bin of history the better for our society.

Doug Hurst (Letters, February 22) poses three questions for Anthony Albanese to answer.

Fair enough. I have two questions for Doug Hurst to answer. First, just assume those projections of climate change are close to accurate, then how much does Doug think the extra intensities of heat waves, droughts, fire, floods and storms will cost individuals, industries and the country between now and 2050?

Second, how does Doug expect developing countries, or any other country for that matter, to reduce their emissions if Australia doesn't show it is willing to do so?

As a sometime hospitality worker I don't have a lot of sympathy for George Calombaris. I nevertheless find it interesting, but not at all unusual, that not one CEO from the likes of Woolworths, Coles, Bunnings, Target, Commonwealth Bank, the ABC, and Qantas has been forced to step down over underpayments.

None of these companies have been forced into liquidation or to rebrand or sell off parts of their operations.

There has been no damage to them on the scale suffered by the Made Establishment operations. What has proven to be a huge deal in George's case seems to be barely an "oops, we made a little mistake" moment for corporate giants who would be far better equipped to know and do the right thing from the get go.

The PM was asked in Question Time: "Why has the Australian government not listed a single right wing extremist group as a terrorist organisation?" He couldn't say why. My conclusion is that members of these organisations generally support the Liberals or the Nationals.

When, as it now appears probable, stocks of large screen TVs and other consumer goods in Australian stores begin to dry up, the flat earthers who attack China for its emissions may finally realise the real issue is our greed and affluence. When we outsource manufacturing we send carbon dioxide emissions offshore.

More "papal" brilliance. Mr Potato Head, with all the camera surveillance he wants trained on Australian citizens (Pope cartoon, February 27). So many eyes but he cannot see. As Jonathon Swift observed in 1738: "There's none so blind as they that won't see".

The coronavirus is something Morrison can't blame on Labor and the Greens. But I'm sure he's working on it. And he'll still get angry in Parliament.

Why is Canberra Airport lengthening its runway for international flight while Virgin has cut its direct flight to Perth? Doesn't make much sense to me. No wonder people support Qantas and Alan Joyce's visions. He cares about everyday Australians.

ACTION's timetables are rubbish but the staff are spectacular. I left my backpack on the 41 at Westfield, ran back but missed the bus. A young passenger, Michael, was quick enough to catch the bus number. He phoned the driver who was finishing the run at Cohen terminus and walked back with my pack.

I am amazed again. North Sydney got $10 million (without applying) to upgrade its pool ahead of the "regional and remote communities" the scheme was aimed at. I wish to apply for a Federal Government grant to improve my remote community out here at Isabella Plains.

When the government bans large assemblies to combat a Covid-19 outbreak will the religious cohort exercise their God-given "rite" to assemble for worship on the basis the government shouldn't dictate what you can and can't do in your own church?

Oh, Mark Sproat (Letters, February 27), you started my day with a laugh. Specsavers indeed.

OMG! Mark Sproat ("Say Again Kevin?", Letters, February 27), has actually written a letter to the editor with which I agree. How good is that?

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