8/08/2008 | While correctly drawing attention to the failings of majority government in the ACT Assembly and in particular the Stanhope Government, Keith Hume (Letters, August 5) ought to have tried to address wh...
8/08/2008 | I wonder if anybody in Australia realises there is more to the Olympic Games than swimming.
I have never in any country I have spent time in seen such unbalanced coverage of this massive event as...
7/08/2008 | I wish to register my, and my family's, total disgust at Primary Health Care's decision to close the Wanniassa Health Centre.
As long-time residents of Wanniassa, the accessibility of our family doc...
6/08/2008 | So John Coates (''Without funding, golden days are over: Coates'', August 4, p1) thinks Australia's ''image and self confidence are at risk from falling levels of sporting success'' unless there is ...
6/08/2008 | The internet Olympics ticketing scam reveals the way the internet and the financial systems are both permitted to operate without concern for the best interests of the community.
I am not arguing fo...
5/08/2008 | The news of the closure of the Wanniassa Medical Centre (''Clinic move pains patients'', August 1, p1) shocked us all, especially the short notice for the doctors and the patients.
I believe that t...
5/08/2008 | This coming ACT election is probably the most important in years.
We gave Labor a majority government last time and a Labor-controlled assembly before that, and they, like successive Liberal governm...
4/08/2008 | There will always be mug punters (''Fresh proof it's easier to pick a sucker than a winner'', July 23, p19), none more so than on improvements to the internal combustion engine. There have been magnet...
4/08/2008 | It is no surprise that Kevan Gosper's public exposure of the IOC's closed-door dealings with China on Olympic media restrictions has led to calls for his resignation. Nor is it a surprise that he was ...
3/08/2008 | Game on
NOW THAT the Chinese leadership has caved in to outside pressure to relax the country's internet censorship for the Olympics, maybe the International Olympic Committee might like to give the world an undertaking that it will do a long overdue purge on its structure so that it is more open and up front on how it does business.
1/08/2008 | The current conflicts between the The ACT Planning and Land Authority and the National Capital Authority were inevitable.
Two great mistakes were made with the formation of the pseudo ''self governm...
1/08/2008 | When Susan Harris Rimmer (''Borders erected around unlimited right to detain'', July 30, p13) says that the asylum-seeker reforms offer a major improvement for those on the mainland, but that they do ...
31/07/2008 | Australia is expert at exporting brainpower, with no economic benefit to ourselves.
Zhengrong Shi, a former University of NSW photovoltaics researcher, failed to attract Australian Government suppor...
31/07/2008 | My dictionary says a contract is an agreement, a written one, enforceable by law. It will however be a contradiction if the NRL try to argue that Sonny Bill Williams has breached his contract (''Gallo...
30/07/2008 | When I read comments from the likes of Crispin Hull (''Leading all roads to Civic is dense policy down fiasco drive'', July 26, pB7) and others (Letters, July 28), it makes me wonder what the rest of...
30/07/2008 | How can ordinary investors obtain better information about the arcane practices of the big banks? We have been told repeatedly by the banking sector that risky lending practices in the US have not bee...
29/07/2008 | After 11 years of denial and inaction by the Howard government, Australians elected the present Labor Government to take urgent action on climate change.
If our planet reaches its tipping point, and...
29/07/2008 | Crispin Hull apparently believes (''Leading all roads to Civic is dense policy down fiasco drive'', July 26, pB7) that at some time from around the 1980s, because ''big developers'' detested the decen...
28/07/2008 | Thank you to Crispin Hull for articulating (''Leading all roads to Civic is dense policy down fiasco drive,'' July 26, pB7) so clearly what I and, hopefully, many others think about Canberra planning ...
28/07/2008 | The Gungahlin Drive Extension spend-up of $90million is public money allocated to buy our votes. When William Hovell Drive was duplicated it didn't take long before peak-hour traffic jams were back....