29/08/2008 | Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's speech outlining the next steps in the education revolution focused on performance and accountability of schools.
Nowhere did we hear the words ''needs of children and sc...
29/08/2008 | It started a few years ago with the removal of pieces of playground equipment, including the climbing equipment at Weston Park.
I write of the disappearance of those normal practices and activities ...
28/08/2008 | J. Lindsay's comments (Letters, August 25) regarding the Tuggeranong pool fiasco were spot on.
But in deciding to get precious about ''fair-weather swimmers'', Lindsay missed the main thrust of the ...
27/08/2008 | Oh dear Kevin Rudd. What a blinkered and ill-informed suggestion to withhold welfare payments from those whose children play truant.
In my time as a deputy principal in an ACT public primary school...
27/08/2008 | The suggestion to older single women to change suburbs to find a man is an interesting one (''Love drought a tale of two suburbs'', August 26, p1).
I agree with Megan Doherty's report that many older...
26/08/2008 | Now that the Beijing Olympic Games extravaganza has finally drawn to a close, the cries for more funding for Australian sports will re-emerge.
What will probably not be explained, though, is just ho...
26/08/2008 | Anyone who reads the report by the Assembly's public accounts committee about the Rhodium farce will be in turn flabbergasted, incredulous and then angry.
The leading entrepreneur in this saga is ...
25/08/2008 | Is there an ACT Government in recent memory which could not be accused of squandering taxpayers' money?
Ric Hingee (Letters, August 23) is correct to point out the skewed priorities of the Stanhop...
25/08/2008 | I find it interesting that the administrators of rugby league promote it as the game for the working class and for its entertainment value. Who is running rugby league? Is it the National Rugby Leagu...
24/08/2008 | Ban makes good sense
I WRITE in support of the Bill by the Canberra Party's Richard Mulcahy to ban the sale of drug paraphernalia in the ACT. There are a number of reasons for this.
22/08/2008 | ''Can Pakistan make a fresh start?'' (August 20, p19), I doubt it.
The problem with Pakistan first and foremost is its legitimacy as a nation-state. Pakistan was founded in 1947 purely as a consequen...
21/08/2008 | Ian Sharpe, in his cartoon last Sunday, showed Jon Stanhope being handicapped by some of the unpopular decisions taken by the ACT Government. However, he missed one that the Government seems intent o...
21/08/2008 | The ACT Government must believe in Santa Claus if it thinks that sales tax cuts for low-emission vehicles (''Tax cuts for green machines'', August 20, p1) will have any substantial impact on car purc...
20/08/2008 | It is hoped the release of the ACT Government's discussion paper regarding raising the school leaving age and re-engaging so-called disengaged youth (''Outcry at plan to lift school leaving age'', Aug...
20/08/2008 | ''Bullying and intimidation are not acceptable ways to conduct foreign policy in the 21st century,'' George W. Bush says in regard to the South Ossetian crisis. The lack of moral credibility that le...
19/08/2008 | John Thistleton's report ('''Sneaky tax' may force up rents,'' August 16, p9) raises some interesting points of concern about the Unit Titles Amendment Bill. It also demonstrates the truth of the old...
19/08/2008 | The Attorney-General, Simon Corbell, in an attempt to discredit the views in my earlier letter, states that he is confident that the new controlled operations legislation will prevent corruption and i...
18/08/2008 | In response to Robert Allan, medical director of the Phillip Medical Centre (Letters, August 14, p16), I would like to highlight a number of issues that as a former patient of the centre I feel could ...
18/08/2008 | Barry York claims (''If you want to be red, don't be green'', August 16, pB2) that the environment movement is basically submissive and religious in its view of nature. Although it is hard to generali...
16/08/2008 | To the Point