Cartoon / Dose of Dorin
Here's an unexpected virtue of an electric car, says cartoonist PAUL DORIN.
Opinion
Views on the news from Canberra’s top columnists
"All prosecutors, and all judges, should heed Portia’s words in The Merchant of Venice: 'The quality of mercy is not strained. It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven...' Legal columnist HUGH SELBY sees lessons for lawyers everywhere.
New government funding for family violence is unprecedented, but it can’t afford to wait, says ANASTASIA POWELL.
"The current 12-hour system is idiotic. Fortunately, it would not often be the case that 12 midday would be confused with 12 midnight.," writes Whimsy columnist CLIVE WILLIAMS.
Opinion
I’ve never met an Aboriginal I didn’t like
"Why do our white compatriots so easily forgive the British for not just stealing the Aboriginals’ homeland but then trying to wipe them out," asks The Gadfly columnist ROBERT MACKLIN.
Opinion
KEEPING UP THE ACT
A word from our Divine Seizer Barrus Pompus Maximus: "Hipsters, gypsters and gender betwixters, lend me your ears, along with all your money... "
Opinion
Brazil bans X, will other countries follow?
Brazil just banned the social media platform X. Could other countries follow suit, asks TARIQ CHOUCAIR.
"Has the Labor-Greens government just given up on Canberra? Ten years or even five years ago it wasn’t like this," says letter writer RACHAEL NANO, of Lyons.
Attorney-General Dreyfus authorised a large payment to Brittany Higgins. There was neither a legal basis nor compliance with the procedure for compensation claims. But does the National Anti-Corruption Commission care, asks HUGH SELBY.
‘It’s time to give up on normal’: DAVID BOWMAN looks at what winter’s weird weather means for the warm months ahead.
They come from above: MEG EDWARDS explains why magpies, magpie-larks and lapwings swoop in spring.
Happy Father’s Day, Daddy Pig – despite your faults, you’re TV’s greatest dad, says BEN McCANN.
VINCENT HO says constipation increases the risk of a heart attack – and not just on the toilet, a new study finds.
Be there as our Dear Leader discovers a new part of Canberra (to him), far to the south and long forgotten by his government.
Opening his front door to a furniture delivery, JOHN ROGERS, of Fisher, gets a lovely surprise…
"Now, I know a lot of local Laborites have had direct CFMEU backing, but having an actual CFMEU employee running for office?" Letter writer ANNE O'DONNELL wonders what's going on with Labor's Kurrajong candidate Aggi Court.
"The vape black market is thriving in Australia and will continue to sell unregulated vapes with unknown ingredients and unknown nicotine levels to anyone of any age who has enough money to buy them," writes PROF ROSS FITZGERALD.
"As to 'belittling, harassment and bullying of the prosecutor' the judge accepted that he made unacceptable remarks." Columnist HUGH SELBY salutes the process, but decries the need to have facts of the Newlinds case leaked.
40°C in August? Climate expert ANDREW KING explains why Australia is ridiculously hot right now.
