9/07/2008 | Sometimes you hear a stray sentence on the news that makes you realise you have been lied to. Deliberately lied to; systematically lied to; lied to for a purpose. If you listened closely over the past...
9/07/2008 | Nobody has asked me to give any advice about Canberra's new prison, the Alexander Maconochie Centre, but there has already been fairly extensive discussion in the columns of this newspaper and in many...
9/07/2008 | Professor Ross Garnaut's draft report probably put some people off buying newspapers on Saturday. ''Act now or face catastrophe'' was our headline. ''Adapt or perish'' was how The Sydney Morning Heral...
9/07/2008 | Everyone ''knows'' why the Murray-Darling river management has been such a mess. The basin runs through four states and a territory, each with its own local interests, not least in irrigation and agri...
9/07/2008 | I imagine the Prime Minister is disappointed at the indifferent quality of Professor Ross Garnaut's draft climate change review report. It is a poorly argued document, ill-conceived and prospectively ...
9/07/2008 | The Howard government approved the Griffin Legacy Plan, but it was rejected by the Joint Standing Committee on the National Capital. Mostly a blueprint for the insensitive value maximisation of ACT la...
8/07/2008 | Next time you go out for a meal at Dickson, take a look at the head office of the ACT Planning and Land Authority.
It's around the corner, in Challis Street. The sign at the front reads ''Dame Pat...
8/07/2008 | The driver's pleasant smile and happy reassurance could not hide the fact that there was actually a big problem. The exact dimensions of the difficulty had become rapidly apparent as we'd dodged the ...
8/07/2008 | The G8 summit, which opened yesterday on Hokkaido, in Japan, conjures images of a political accident and emergency ward on a Saturday night. George W.Bush, leader of 'the greatest nation on earth', i...
8/07/2008 | The experiment with majority government in the ACT has not worked.
In a single-chamber legislature like the Legislative Assembly, neither major political party should be allowed to operate with a ma...
8/07/2008 | There could hardly be any positions more ridiculous, or less defensible, than those at either extreme of the confected debate about the photography of pre-pubescent girls, stirred up again this week b...
8/07/2008 | Sorry John Passant (Letters, July 6), but the Chief Minister Jon Stanhope's election year suggestion of free bus travel for all will do absolutely nothing to put more bums on seats.
Admittedly it wo...
8/07/2008 | Des Moore's letter (July 7) with its several questions directed to Ross Garnaut is essentially an unconcealed denial of the reality of climate change.
No doubt Nelson, Bishop and Minchin will sque...
7/07/2008 | There is an old rule in politics: Don't set up an inquiry unless you know what it is going to find. The Garnaut review is shaping up as yet another example of the rule in practice. Those wanting an in...
7/07/2008 | It is a matter of extreme concern that the Commonwealth Government and its appointed representatives appear to be living in a fantasyland where the local manufacturing industry is not being driven int...
7/07/2008 | Back on Monday, May 26, Paul Lennon stepped down as Premier of Tasmania and was replaced by David Bartlett. Lennon also resigned his seat in the House of Assembly.
At the Tasmanian general election o...
7/07/2008 | By spelling out the urgency of the task to tackle climate change, Professor Ross Garnaut has highlighted the shortcomings of the ACT's current response.
His address provided a powerful case for early...
7/07/2008 | A terrible injustice has been perpetrated on the volunteers we have in our community.
On June 11, the section 63 long-stay car park in Civic went into private hands.
Immediately, the owners refus...
7/07/2008 | The Garnaut draft report raises innumerable questions about any trading scheme to reduce CO2 emissions, let alone one starting in 2010. First, does our former ambassador to China seriously belie...
5/07/2008 | I find it interesting that Acciona has withdrawn from building a wind farm on Molonglo ridge (''Energy firm pulls plug on wind farm for Molonglo'', May31, p5).
It did so after realising the proposal ...