Views on the news from Canberra’s top columnists
"Ministers Berry and Vassarotti are unrelentingly determined to evict widows from their homes and the security of their neighbourhoods, refusing to let these people live out their leases." It's shameful. It's "Seven Days" with IAN MEIKLE.
"People are seeking a planning system that provides confidence, certainty, clarity, trust and values consultations. Based on what's been released so far, the new legislation is a failure on all of these criteria," says PAUL COSTIGAN.
"Whimsy" columnist CLIVE WILLIAMS slips on his sandshoes for a lap around the history of jogging.
"An air of lunacy has developed around the agreement between the Solomon Islands and our biggest and most lucrative trading partner during this surreal election campaign," writes columnist ROBERT MACKLIN.
"The list of things the NCA is getting wrong is too long for this brief opinion piece. They are today’s version of the bureaucrats who worked hard to mess with the Griffins' creativity and design concepts," writes columnist PAUL COSTIGAN.
HERMAN SAFRANSKY, a visitor from the US, says he's noticed a recent outbreak of the pandemic, medically referred to as chromophobia (fear of colours).
"All states and territories are caught up in the rush to lift restrictions while hardly recognising the overwhelming driver for Morrison is winning an election rather than seeking the best interest of the community," writes MICHAEL MOORE.
Who would have thought that the path to earning a "Tree City of the World" accolade was chopping down and neglecting trees. The ACT government spinners have triumphed again. It's "Seven Days" with IAN MEIKLE.
You can't be too careful, the way the prices are rising right now, says cartoonist PAUL DORIN.
When it comes to Mother's Day, cartoonist PAUL DORIN has a good point to make!
Honeybees have joined humans as the only known animals that can tell the difference between odd and even numbers.
"Unfortunately, the performances of local federal election candidates have not been individually or collectively too exciting," says PAUL COSTIGAN.
Buying a house isn't easy, says cartoonist PAUL DORIN.
"His 12-year-old brain travels from confused to suspicious to frankly murderous in the same nine seconds it takes my 7-year-old self to hurtle from fake innocence to guilt to liver-melting fear," writes "Kindness" columnist ANTONIO DI DIO.
In a very personal column JON STANHOPE writes: "We Australians should, as we grandstand about our commitment to our 'Pacific Ocean family', have a hard and honest look at our treatment of the most important member of that family."
It's been a long way from Batemans Bay for Citizen Shane...
Letter writer RIC HINGEE, of Duffy, raises the unanswered questions of why the ACT government opposed the inquiry into the Orroral Valley bushfires.
It's nice to have so many policy options for the upcoming election, says cartoonist PAUL DORIN.
