The end is now in sight for the fight to preserve west basin

We are now approaching D-Day for West Basin and it is time to set the record straight. Walter Burley Griffin designed a lake surrounded by park...

Letters To The Editor

2 13.07.2020

Australia's national security laws leave us on a similar path to Hong Kong

Hong Kong's new national security laws are attracting well-deserved condemnation. It's a pity that there hasn't been greater recognition that...

Brian Toohey

2 13.07.2020

Canberra comes into her own in winter, now we've seen her at her best

If there's one thing that being holed up during a Canberra winter has taught me is that it could be worse. I'm a fan of winter, always have been....

Karen Hardy

2 latest

I vividly remember the first time I saw a person of colour

With issues of race now on all thinking minds I am remembering, vividly, the first time I ever saw a person of colour. Not many of us, surely, can...

Ian Warden

3 latest

We love the council when it's building bridges - not going through your rubbish

Bitumen is black gold around here. One side of our house used to be exposed to an unsealed road, the ramifications of which we were unaware until...

B. R. Doherty

3 latest

The myth of doing more with less

When you eventually make your way back into the office, chances are your boss will greet you with words along the lines of "we are all going to...

Gary Martin

3 latest

Essential parenting supplies

JUST LIKE A SCOUT: As a parent, it is always good to be prepared, especially on those long car trips with a good supply of wet wipes, sick bags,...

Christy Kidner

3 yesterday

Walking away is never the 'easy' option

At some stage in our life it's likely that every one of us has called it quits over something. We have decided that the energy we are expending...

Gary Bentley

2 yesterday

Protecting teens in cyberspace

Many parents worry about their teens being contacted online by a stranger, so here's how to keep your family safe. - Ask your teens regularly about...

Jessie Mitchell

2 yesterday

Opiates can address pain in more ways than one

May I add my support for the three previous writers on the issue of the TGA decision to further limit access to prescribed opiates (Letters, July...

Letters To The Editor

3 yesterday

One cannot say the law is above our politicians

The US Supreme Court has many things in common with the Australian High Court, including some reputation for containing the odd sexual harasser,...

Jack Waterford

3 yesterday

Is it time we pivoted to an elimination strategy?

Scott Morrison summoned his self-restraint and resisted temptation. Invited on Thursday to attack the Victorian government over its disastrous...

Michelle Grattan

4 yesterday

Howard looking the other way on Trump is a stone-faced betrayal of conservative values

If Donald Trump had ever wondered about the world beyond Mar-a-Lago or Manhattan, he might have viewed South Dakota's famous Black Hills as his...

Mark Kenny

3 yesterday

When the government prosecutes whistleblowers, it is sending a message

We are in the midst of a public health and economic crisis, and the federal government is regularly making momentous and life-altering decisions,...

Ebony Bennett

2 yesterday

We are witnessing the fall of a great power

Just how rotten is the United States' political system? The answer is rotten, as in it will only take a small kick for the whole edifice to fall...

Crispin Hull

3 yesterday

City needs to do better with social distancing than this

When the Chief Minister talked up the then-proposed easing of restrictions that were to allow increased numbers in outdoor and small business...

Letters To The Editor

2 previous day

Dietary advice we've been fed for decades is wrong

I'm half way through my 12 months as 2020 Australian of the Year. I wake up every day knowing over 250 Australians will develop type 2 diabetes...

Dr James Muecke Am

3 previous day

Why you can't always say what you want

I have been thinking about political correctness because I recently watched a documentary titled Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich. I did not know that...

John Malouff

1 previous day

Confessions of an Arts graduate

Picture: Shutterstock Readers, trust me (for I am a journalist) with your lubricious secrets as I ask you these stickybeaking personal questions....

Ian Warden

2 previous day

This pandemic will reshape the spaces in which we live

About now, I imagined I'd be downsizing to a two-bedroom apartment with views. This would be the life. No more worrying about guttering or gardens,...