Cartoon / Dose of Dorin
Cartoonist PAUL DORIN looks at the classroom response to the teacher shortage.
Opinion
Views on the news from Canberra’s top columnists
"While most of us look forward to having access to an affordable electric vehicle, there is a serious human rights issue that needs to be considered as society makes the switch.," says "Canberra Matters" columnist PAUL COSTIGAN.
Author of 29 books, "The Gadfly" columnist ROBERT MACKLIN shares a glimpse of the crazy, self-absorbing life of the long-distance writer.
KEEPING UP THE ACT discovers a new celestial super-massive black hole... right here in Canberra!
Opinion
There’s no positive news about social housing
"The ACT government has a target of 15 per cent of social housing within new multi-unit developments. That target was ignored when social-housing sites were sold for development along Northbourne Avenue," says columnist PAUL COSTIGAN.
Opinion
Dangers behind ‘mundane’ taunt on health symptoms
JON STANHOPE and KHALID AHMED are concerned at the bureaucratic mocking of people seeking care at an emergency department because of a subjective assessment that their condition is 'mundane', but it all comes down to underfunding.
Letters
More to the environment than cute furry animals
Letter writer JONATHAN MILLER says significant societal change will be needed to address the drivers of environmental decline.
The chief minister was an embarrassment to his position with a performance on radio that "Seven Days" columnist IAN MEIKLE – not a psychologist – says gave a startling insight into a man realising perhaps the spin is coming unstuck.
Cartoonist PAUL DORIN wonders about the effectiveness of herd immunity.
"Canberra Matters" columnist PAUL COSTIGAN leaves the material world for a walk around the Belconnen Arts Centre precinct...
Why does the RBA keep hiking interest rates? It’s scared it can’t contain inflation, says PETER MARTIN.
"There’s the common perception that the bureaucracy lauds it over the politicians. If so, it’s a democratic problem to have unelected bureaucrats running the show," says "Canberra Matters" columnist PAUL COSTIGAN.
A special guest joins "KEEPING UP THE ACT" this week, a testament to the pluralistic approach of "CityNews".
After spending spent the past six years hands-on within the construction industry, letter writer VESNA STRIKA, of Gungahlin, has no qualms about wanting to do something – anything – else!
"Lack of vaccination against covid is a key factor in Australian hospitals being overcrowded with more deaths than with the previous waves of the disease," says columnist MICHAEL MOORE.
When it comes to viruses, there's a lot going on, says cartoonist PAUL DORIN.
"Canberra Matters" columnist PAUL COSTIGAN takes a mooch around the public art mix in Civic, the good, the bad and the ugly.
The rising cost of living is taking its toll, says cartoonist PAUL DORIN.
Labor is winding back reforms meant to hold super funds accountable to their members, writes PETER MARTIN.
