The damage is just part of an ongoing pattern of violent behaviour around the CBD and Braddon that mostly goes unreported.

They regularly leave their cigarette butts, their vomit, the scooters upended, the potted plants smashed and the branches broken from saplings. Only the Lord (and those who work in the emergency department) knows what damage they do to each other.

Are the bars adhering to the law on the responsible serving of alcohol?

Perhaps innovation and entrepreneurship is in order and we should be developing a cafe-based culture that sells "weed" along with the more modern chemicals that elevate people to a "relaxed and comfortable" state of mind?

Jack Waterford has gone too far ("Leave management of grants to the pros", canberratimes.com.au, March 19) in equating consultancy companies with prostitutes and saying "there is absolutely nothing they will not say or do for money, especially if the client wants it".

Not only is this an unsubstantiated generalisation of the ethics and motives of consultants; it is a pejorative and similarly generalised slur on legitimate sex workers, predominantly women, who work under what I can only imagine would be extraordinarily challenging, confronting and at times, dangerous circumstances.

It seems that Jack Waterford doesn't quite understand this, secure in the comfort of his city office/comfortable working-from-home arrangements.

Zed Seselja has talked to a few people about Viking Park. Josh Frydenberg has hinted he might support him. No money is involved, the hint will be forgotten after the election.

Seselja has also written a letter to the Science and Technology Minister about using old CSIRO land site for affordable housing. The site has languished for years because of difficulties. Nothing will happen.

Seselja has only come out of his slumber because his numbers people tell him David Pocock is a real threat to his Senate sinecure.

Although I disagree with David Pocock's idea of a Civic stadium, I applaud his general policy of Canberra getting a fair share of the federal government's future infrastructure projects, as there is little in the pipeline at the moment.

Seselja you've had three terms to establish a track-record of doing stuff for Canberra. Isn't it a little too late to start now.

By the way, kudos to Karen Barlow and Chris Dutton for an excellent series of articles on the stadium wars.

For years there has been debate on a new Canberra stadium including the redevelopment of the GIO Stadium, a new facility in civic and now the proposal by Zed Seselja to redevelop Vikings Park.

I believe all are unsuitable.

The GIO Stadium is poorly located in Belconnen and has inappropriate support facilities (parking, public transport etc). It would also be to expensive to redevelop.

Similarly a Civic facility would not be cost effective requiring the re-alignment of Parkes Way, closure of existing facilities especially the popular swimming pool.

Viking Park is a private facility and like GIO Stadium is not centrally located, has limited local support facilities (parking etc) and public transport that would require multiple bus transfers for northern patrons.

Ideally, the government should consider a new stadium at the Phillip Oval where it is more central across all suburbs, heaps of parking and good close access of public transport within walking distance from the Woden Bus Exchange.

Yes there would the need to relocate some existing Phillip Oval facilities but this would come at a significant cost savings than the three existing proposals (GIO Stadium, Civic and Viking Park).

It is interesting stadiums have become the hot topic for the coming ACT Senate election.

Without criticising the need for stadiums, or sports that would benefit from new purpose-built assets, what everyone has been silent about is that the Civic pool complex is home to many aquatic community sports.

Some of these risk becoming homeless if these facilities are loss.

Canberra has a spring board diving club, a proper water polo pool, under water rugby, artistic swimming, a training ground for triathletes, many swimming squad clubs, little nippers, and a place to train in scuba diving.

I would ask The Canberra Times and those running for the Senate to open a discussion on how the aquatic sports will be accommodated.

Maybe our federal members could dig that little bit deeper and look after everyone in this equation. A revamped Civic pool would make an amazing territory aquatic facility. We are probably one of the only jurisdictions across Australia without one.

You'd think will the mean-girl scandal impacting the ACT through the "senator for the public service" Katy Gallagher would mean Peter McLaughlin (Letters, March 24), would be more interested in her current activities rather than cheap ad hominem attacks on Zed Seselja.

What, there's to be no conservative representation at all for Canberra? Maybe a one-party government like Russia or China for Peter? Why bother voting? Taxation without representation, heaven for leftists?

Peter should not be too concerned about any publicity for Zed, anything he gets will be swamped by that already gifted to faux "independents" like David Pocock, whose policies are utterly indistinguishable from Labor or the Greens, tag teaming Zed just like, er, mean girls. How about some more publicity for Katy Gallagher?

Not content with being the less notable of the triumvirate and the senator for the public service, she has been trailing her coat as "defending Medicare". Huh?

From whom, and based on what? For those who have forgotten, Medicare is a bi-partisan agreement.

Shouldn't tame fact checkers and the AEC have a look at Gallagher's claim of having to "defend" Medicare in exchange for her parliamentary salary?

In 1993 John Hewson lost the unloseable election.

Arguably, the turning point was when, asked on TV by Mike Willesee, he could not explain how his proposed 15 per cent GST would affect the price of cake. He choked on the necessary detail.

Similarly, who can forget Mark Latham's aggressive handshake of John Howard before the 2004 election? The alternative prime minister was frightening. Bill Shorten had his moment in 2019 when he would not tell reporter Jonathan Lee if he did, or did not, support the Adani mine. Now it is Anthony Albanese's turn.

Will he, or will he not, take action against bullying in his party. Yes or no, Mr Albanese; is bullying acceptable? If no, then act strongly against the mean girls.

No, Ros Gordon (Letters, March 11) I don't think you are being unreasonable in objecting to people addressing you as "darling". As an older person I have this problem too. My initial reaction is to cringe and to feel angry. It makes me feel that the person addressing me thinks that I am a silly old fool. In reality they are probably trying to be kind and caring but they don't seem to realise that the term can actually be hurtful.

Certainly, it is ageist: I doubt that teenagers are addressed in this fashion. I have no objection to the term "ma'am" but think that any title is unnecessary. Nevertheless, I was highly delighted when a cheery young male shopkeeper greeted me with the words: "How's your day been so far, dude?".

John Sandilands' (Letters, March 18) question on what constitutes war crime is complex and is usually decided and written into history by the "winning side".

But for the common people, these answers are self evident. The best day of my mother's life was when a US Sherman tank flying the Union Jack cautiously crept down our street.

Those subject to the bombing of Darwin might argue that the British Pacific Fleet and US Navy would have spent years and sacrificed countless lives liberating the Pacific, if not for nuclear "war crimes".

The millions of common people fleeing Vladimir Putin's onslaught and seeking sanctuary in the West would certainly be able to answer John's question.