The site is too small for any proposed outdoor stadium which should accommodate 30,000 to 40,000 people so that it meets the future needs of the ACT region.

The new outdoor stadium should be designed to cater for all football codes and cricket; a smaller version of Melbourne's Docklands. Spectator facilities for watching cricket and AFL at Manuka Oval are a disgrace.

EPIC is the best site in terms of adequate space and is on the light rail. A modern indoor stadium is needed with the AIS Arena which opened in 1981 being no longer suitable for large events.

A modern indoor stadium, besides helping the Canberra Capitals, might also help to entice the Canberra Cannons out of hibernation.

It would also be a viable venue for large concerts. A smart designer might be able to incorporate an indoor pool under the stadium and integrate it with the convention centre.

The ACT government should look at the Perth Arena located in the city centre which has rejuvenated major indoor sports teams located on Perth.

Re ("Report backs Civic Stadium", canberratimes.com.au, March 15).

The elephant in the room for me is the inability of our transport planners to provide transport to the site.

It would need significant park and ride in strategic sites around the city, like Oxford, UK, with free public transport.

If it is not linked, it will fail and you will still have the age old enemy of emissions.

As for the pool, it must stay.

And the convention centre has been conveniently forgotten. I did hear that for every dollar invested there would be a return of $4. Is that true or false?

Scott Morrison and his illiberal Liberals just don't get it.

Women are incandescent with rage. They have had enough of living with the threat of violence and sexual assault.

The patriarchy is again in issue. Social change is odd. For years nothing seems to change. Then suddenly there is a spark and the whole rotten edifice goes up in flames.

To borrow from W B Yeats: "All changed, changed utterly: A terrible beauty is born".

I have lived in public housing for nearly 20 years. Yes, there are people in public housing who willingly trash their properties, are ungrateful, and cause chaos and disruption for the other residents in the community.

However, using the same brush to paint all public housing residents as bad and ungrateful is disgraceful, discriminatory, and defamatory.

I believe The Canberra Times is not only guilty of this behaviour, it is an enabler of the general community's attitude and perception of public housing.

The majority of us who live in public housing take great pride in our homes, just like those in our community who live in private housing.

Discount air tickets subsidised by the federal government to aid hard-hit tourism and travel sectors are a good initiative.

But rather than nominate a few limited travel destinations, albeit with the promise of more to come, surely a fairer program would be simply to say all destinations are covered other than those specifically excluded where the impact of COVID-19 has been relatively small. Not only would such an approach allow many more tourism areas to participate it would avoid criticism that the current scheme primarily benefits the two largest airlines servicing the currently approved destinations.

Crispin Hull's Opinion article ("The political scourge that's not debatable", canberratimes.com.au, March 13) really struck a chord.

As he wrote: "The main skill learned in debating is to develop the capacity to support or oppose any proposition, argument, selected "fact", or interpretation of selected fact, however specious or spurious, however exaggerated or mendacious they may be.

That skill, of course, is to be used in "winning". Belief, conviction and the search for the truth have nothing to do with it.

The school and university debating exercises are conducted in a moral vacuum. The aim is to marshal whatever you can lay your hands on to help your side win.

Hull went on to highlight the absence of the scientific method and critical thinking in Parliament. There are virtually no scientists now, as was the case 30 years ago. If people cannot think critically when presented with facts and distinguish between argument (based on facts) and assertion (based more on opinion than facts), then they will not make the right decisions.

This means this country is way behind the rest of the world in dealing with the existential threat of climate change. Many parliamentarians debate to their hearts content but do so in a moral vacuum that is largely fact-free.

It is indeed encouraging the Morrison government has endorsed the Rule of Law as one of its fundamental principles.

This marks a dramatic turnaround from its continued exercise of the illegal Robo-debt scheme, its prosecution in closed court of whistleblowers who dared reveal Australia's internationally illegal activities in East Timor, and its use of Federal Police to raid offices and homes of journalists, unions and the opposition.

Perhaps next it might espouse accountability as another its tenets?

On the National Museum of Australia's anniversary this week, the current director, Howard Raggatt unearthed some of the concealed controversy that accompanied the event. He does not mention the human tragedy.

The demolition of the hospital had been promoted as a spectacle of entertainment. It was so mismanaged debris flew uncontrolled and a 10-year-old child, Katy Bender, watching from across the lake, was killed.

In commemoration of this there is a small, undistinguished, memorial near the opposite shore.

The anniversary is an appropriate time to include a prominent memorial in the museum itself.

In "Defence just can't afford a tin ear", (canberratimes.com.au, March 9) Nicolas Stuart makes a startlingly silly, and certainly callous, suggestion that the allies should have bombed Hitler's concentration camps in order to put them out of action.

Hitler started building his concentration (extermination) camps in 1933-1934. There were eventually over 30 extermination centres plus many smaller or satellite camps.

How does Stuart delude himself that bombing any one, let alone all, such camps would have advanced victory? Even by World War II standards such bombing would surely have been a war crime.

Bombing would have killed more innocent civilians on top of those killed by concentrated bombing of Germany's cities and towns.

Bombing the camps would hardly have stopped Hitler's murder of millions: perhaps the murder method would have become on the spot shooting.

Deaths by the systematic mass murder of individuals, as distinct from civilian casualties of bombing, were unlikely to be reduced or prevented. This is an unfortunate, silly view.

The tourism support scheme is good. The traveller has a vast number of venues to stay at. That means discounts can be sought. There are only three or four airlines. They may set their own price.

It is a bit rich for Meghan Markle, from her 20 room mansion, to deep fry the Royals when the media reports indicate some members of her own family are as mad as hatters.

While the royals do not quite represent Alf Garnet in Till Death Us Do Part, no one is squeaky clean. We are all guilty of similar misdemeanors (or worse) so let's not fantasize about the royal script or even life in general. The real winner in this escapade is the promotion of Meghan Markle.

The government will slash airfares to encourage us to holiday domestically. I wasn't aware we could holiday anywhere else at the moment.

Eye colour racism? Well said Penelope Upward. (12/3) Blue eyed and blonde was my given at birth, but there were family across the channel speculating whether I would progress from crawling straight into goose stepping.

Brendan Murphy looked like a rabbit in the headlights on Thursday trying to change the definition of full vaccination. I expect the government to change tack soon and take the position they will not report on the vaccination rollout progress for operational reasons or national security.

The eloquent letter-writer M Moore (Letters, March 12) laments the disappearances of elected politicians. I put it to you that if our Prime Minister were to fall down some stairs he would be unlikely to damage his spine.

So Barr creates a first by providing free transport for the women's rally at Parliament House. Does this constitute "your taxis at work"?"

On Sunday morning I sought help to deal with an injured male kangaroo in my garden. Two rangers arrived within the hour and humanely cared for the poor creature. They showed respect to me and the kangaroo. I'm very grateful.

The article by Crispin Hull ("The Political Scourge that's not debatable", March 13, p21) is brilliant. It is spot on in identifying the root cause of what is wrong with our parliamentary system and why good debaters are drawn to politics.

No wonder integrity is an issue when the debaters are so good at cleverly twisting words around purely to suit their arguments and egos.

So, the Myanmar junta has charged six journalists over coup coverage. Is anybody surprised by that? That shit happens invariably after a military coup because the junta does not want the truth revealed. And, revealing the truth is what any good journalist must do.

When I ride my bicycle I pedal forward. I've tried to pedal backward but it never works for me. I wonder where I can learn how to pedal backwards? Oh, I know, I'll ask the Prime Minister, he's an expert.

Mike Quirk (Letters, March 14) thinks that electric buses could provide similar benefits to light rail. I doubt that they would provide the most important benefit: the improvement of property values along the route.

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