KEEPING UP THE ACT
Wake us when it's over... here's KEEPING UP THE ACT's return to Labor's loyal Just Us League.
Opinion
Views on the news from Canberra’s top columnists
"We have seen an upsurge in far-right politics that has been heavily based on the refugee and immigration issue, but it will affect many people other than refugees," writes JOHN MINNS.
Keep an eye on the Senate, says ZAREH GHAZARIAN, the people elected to it this year will have immense power for years to come.
Legal columnist HUGH SELBY says the nub of the problem with indigenisation is that in the Australian legal system that governs us all, it lacks the substance and the relevance to be given the role of “significant”.
Letters
Dread of finding kangaroo injured and left to die
"Please slow down on the roads, look out for wildlife and to check animals that have been hit. It's possible for animals such as kangaroos, possums and wombats to survive a car strike," says letter writer REBECCA MARKS.
Opinion
Cartoon / Dose of Dorin
Predictably unpredictable is how cartoonist PAUL DORIN is calling the federal election.
Opinion
Trouble at Tesla as consumer boycotts start to bite
Trouble at Tesla and protests against Trump’s tariffs suggest consumer boycotts are starting to bite, write ERIN O'BRIEN and JUSTINE CONEYBEER.
"Youth justice management has decided that they, like adult corrections, are a law unto themselves. Oversight simply doesn't apply. They are getting away with this because the ACT government condones that conduct," writes HUGH SELBY.
Whimsy columnist CLIVE WILLIAMS jumps in the deep end with a look at swimming, wherever it occurs, and his impending ambition to swim six kilometres across the Bosphorus Strait.
"They went through so many scrapes, just escaping before the opposing forces moved in... the tension never let up." ROBERT MACKLIN says the TV drama The Americans has an ending that might throw a piercing light on the dilemma we face today.
There's lots to catch up in KEEPING UP THE ACT's latest look at Nurse Rach's snake oil and medicine show.
The contentious construction progress of light rail continues to evoke responses from CityNews readers, most of whom are refusing to lie down and let the government's tram spin roll over them. Here are the latest letters.
"The Canberra community should appreciate that the work of the Integrity Commission has demonstrated its ability to hold people in high office to account," writes MICHAEL MOORE.
The 2025 budget has few savings and surprises but it also ignores climate change, writes STEPHEN BARTOS.
Columnist HUGH SELBY returns to the plight of little Dion and his gran and their dreadful life as ACT Housing tenants with a leaking roof, mould, jammed bedroom window, water-damaged plaster and a toilet cistern about to fall off the wall.
"Tariffs generally are bad for world trade, especially for the weakest trading countries," says letter writer TIM WALSHAW, of Watson.
Here's a little bedtime-story nostalgia from cartoonist PAUL DORIN.
Columnist HUGH SELBY heard from Little Dion recently. He wanted to tell Hugh about what makes his gran cry.
Why would someone grieve a family house so much once it's sold? Psychologist LAUREN BREEN says it's normal to grieve a place, especially if it coincides with a parent dying or moving into residential aged care.
