Views on the news from Canberra’s top columnists
“I’d be concerned if a decision to ban tobacco in the AMC has already been made and the only issue of concern to the government and officials is how to prevent detainees from rioting,” says […]
“Energy prices need a cold, hard look. There are regulators. But there were also banking-industry regulators who have now been exposed as less than useless,” writes MICHAEL MOORE
“This city needs a real-life planning minister who works with the electors to get great results – not one that sits on his hands and watches the city’s amenities being degraded,” writes PAUL COSTIGAN
“The Suburban Land Agency does not… hold enough liquid assets to meet all its current liabilities,” writes JON STANHOPE
CEDRIC Bryant’s recent letter (CN, October 31) contains a number of factual errors that need to be corrected. Not one country around the world has a ban on the use of glyphosate. Nor is glyphosate […]
THE Coalition has taken another knock in Newspoll, now trailing Labor 45-55 per cent on a two-party basis. Scott Morrison’s personal ratings have also worsened, in a poll that comes in the wake of his […]
Armistice bring a busy time for a ‘silent soldier’, says “Seven Days” columnist MIKE WELSH
MALCOLM Turnbull has delivered a hefty blow to the struggling Morrison government by refocusing attention on the one question it has desperately tried to smother. That is: why was he sacked? When he appeared on […]
TODAY (November 8) Scott Morrison will announce an extensive suite of military, diplomatic, financial and people-to-people initiatives in a major boost to Australia’s role in the Pacific. They include setting up a $2 billion infrastructure […]
“Given the combined history on Canberra’s development and the lack of empathy on planning matters from the Chief Minister, Planning Minister and the Urban Renewal Minister, things are not looking good for Downer,” writes PAUL […]
I STRONGLY endorse the comments of reader Bjorn Moore (“Grumpy”. CN, October 25) about the extent of illegal parking in Canberra. I have contacted several representatives for Ginninderra, including Ministers Ramsay and Berry and all […]
“Revelations about ball tampering, sledging and gambling in the international arena were mind-boggling,” writes ‘The Gadfly’ columnist ROBERT MACKLIN.
Was the dismal PM’s XI crowd a harbinger to ScoMo’s political innings, wonders ‘Seven Days’ columnist MIKE WELSH
THERE’s a nice story about Arthur Fadden – the Country Party leader who became PM in the 1941 hung parliament amid conservative leadership turmoil – deciding not to move into the Lodge after a colleague […]
MALCOLM Turnbull was correct, in policy terms, when this week he called out Scott Morrison’s ill-judged plan for Australia to consider moving its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. The inevitable political consequence, however, is […]
“Barr’s spark was on Monday in late October. Tuesday was a different story. The question moved away from LGBTIQ to other vulnerable people seeking rental affordability,” writes MICHAEL MOORE
“I have struggled to understand why the government abandoned the Affordable Housing Action Plan and I refuse to accept that flooding the market with cheap, high-rise flats is a valid replacement plan,” writes JON STANHOPE
“Canberrans want their cherished city to remain human scale and to be enhanced as the bush capital – more trees, green spaces and biodiversity – not less,” writes PAUL COSTIGAN
By associate Prof Reena Ghildyal and Cynthia Mathew from the University of Canberra
“I do think we can learn a little from the way Americans deal with their older artists. I think it’s true that the older a writer/performer gets, the better he/she gets,” writes JOHN SCHUMANN
A NATURAL storyteller from a young age, Eva Warren’s writing journey began as a dream – like most authors – but in the end became a healing activity after losing her husband. “I worked out […]
“What must the Sydney based and essentially nameless and faceless members of the Suburban Land Agency board think of their first year’s effort?” JON STANHOPE doesn’t spare them on Page 3.
IN the dizzying European summer of 1990 a former Canberra public servant took part in a defiant street demonstration in Berlin directed against the looming disappearance of the East German state. The name of this […]
MANIPULATIVE, terrible and fierce, yet William (Billy) McMahon was, until now, the only Australian prime minister who didn’t have a biography written about him. The 250,000-word, 766-page biography, “Tiberius with a Telephone”, by Patrick Mullins […]
3PM UPDATE: MADISON HAS BEEN FOUND SAFE AND WELL, SAY POLICE TEENAGER Madison Clews-Proctor hasn’t been seen since last Thursday, November 8, at her home in Kambah. The 15-year-old contacted her family on Friday but there […]
