How fairly has Australia advanced?
The contention around Australia Day grows with each passing year and now, says NICK OVERALL, more than ever, it’s important to ask the question, what is the history of Australia Day and does it have a future?
Opinion
Views on the news from Canberra’s top columnists
What's the longest word in the English language? What's in a word? "Whimsy" columnist CLIVE WILLIAMS has the answers.
Reader GIL MILLER has been fined three times for unwittingly exceeding the new 40km/h limits on Northbourne Avenue. He's having panic attacks worrying if he's been caught again.
"When some teenager at Macca’s gets your order wrong for one of the adjectives on your frappuccino iced hedgehog chai-fruit tingle, and there’s a queue behind you, just smile at the youngster serving you," says columnist ANTONIO DI DIO.
Opinion
Will the NCA stop this tram south nonsense?
"Is there anyone within the NCA’s world who thinks it is a good idea to insert another set of traffic lights on Commonwealth Avenue to allow the tram to enter every couple of minutes," asks "Canberra Matters" columnist PAUL COSTIGAN.
Opinion
Out of the woods… and then comes Djoko
Just when embattled PM Scott Morrison might think he's out of the woods, along comes Novak Djokovic to mess things up, writes columnist ROBERT MACKLIN.
Opinion
When will the covid wave be over?
When will this COVID wave be over? ADRIAN ESTERMAN offer four numbers to keep an eye on and why.
Cartoonist PAUL DORIN looks a what a difference a year makes when it comes to covid.
BRONWYN CARLSON and LYNDA-JUNE COE detail the contentious history of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy as it reaches its 50th anniversary this year.
JON STANHOPE recently wrote about the life of his brother Rick's father-in-law, Derek Holyoake. This has now led him to a memorial window in St John's church and the story of a terrible wartime massacre with a Canberra connection.
"Community councils are frustrated with the process whereby developers and their consultants show up at meetings to present on their latest development. The exercise is usually a blatant waste of community time," writes PAUL COSTIGAN.
"If ever a writer and historian were deserving of a Nobel Prize, whether for literature or peace, that person is Henry Reynolds, now in the golden years of a life that has changed a nation," writes columnist ROBERT MACKLIN.
What if you've tested positive to covid? NATASHA YATES explains what to do next...
Supermarket shortages are different this time: FLAVIO MACAU explains how to respond and avoid panic.
Daily case numbers across Australia are already 30 times what they were in the Delta peak. We've gone from covid control to chaos – what now for Australia? Two pathways lie before us, says Prof RAINA MacINTYRE.
"The main beneficiaries of conflict seem to be ambitious politicians and defence industries. Amidst the patriotic fervour we forget about the damaged individuals and ruined lives that war produces," writes CLIVE WILLIAMS
"I don’t want to overstate it, but it feels as though we’re in a conflict that decides whether or not we descend into the kind of chaos so beloved of Hollywood dystopians," writes "The Gadfly" columnist ROBERT MACKLIN.
"The lack of care by the planning directorate in how it approves knock down rebuilds in established suburbs has been devastating for the older suburbs," writes "Canberra Matters" columnist PAUL COSTIGAN.
Letter writer RICHARD JOHNSON laments the tram heading south saying: "Yet to come, and extending over many years, will be the digging up of roads, a major new bridge over the lake and destroying heritage trees on Commonwealth Avenue."
