KEEPING UP THE ACT
Do chairs, dreamcatchers (organic) or red trams offer more political hope for Canberra? KEEPING UP THE ACT might just have a point...
Opinion
Views on the news from Canberra’s top columnists
Letter writer SUE DYER, of Downer, is looking for enlightenment from the ACT Integrity Commission about the extent to which snake oil was an embedded project ingredient at the CIT.
Legal affairs writer and former barrister HUGH SELBY says the presumption of innocence is dead and buried. It has been inverted. It is now a presumption of guilt unless and until a court finds the accused "not guilty".
There's a word that describes the smell after rain, another for the rumble of a hungry stomach and one for when you don't want to get out of bed. "Whimsey" columnist CLIVE WILLIAMS bets you haven't heard of them…
Opinion
KEEPING UP THE ACT
Public toilets in Canberra seem to cost more than anywhere on earth to build. Luckily, Minister Chris Steel helped KEEPING UP THE ACT make sense of it all for you...
Opinion
Whistleblowers: has Dreyfus lost his moral compass?
"Mark Dreyfus has promoted his place as a proponent of whistleblower protection law. But his actions this week are in stark contradiction," writes legal columnist HUGH SELBY.
Opinion
Climate change will cook the insurance industry
"Not even the finest fine printer will save the insurance industry from the worldwide ravages of climate change," predicts "The Gadfly" columnist ROBERT MACKLIN.
Cash may no longer be king, but the Optus debacle shows it is still necessary, writes CHRIS VASANTKUMAR.
In this exclusive column, our ever-lovin’ CHIEF DUDERINO says that in the lead up to the 2024 election they're going to flick the loony switch: "I’d like to tell you everything we have planned, except we don’t even know ourselves!"
Because the great majority of criminal cases are finalised with sentencing following a plea of guilty, the public hears too little about the vital role of crime-scene examiners and forensic scientists, writes HUGH SELBY.
Letter writer IAN PILSNER makes no bones about it. He thinks the anti-colonialists should thank the many convicts that were shackled for the long and arduous hours of backbreaking work to build the foundations of this country.
ANDREW FRASER reckons it's pretty rough that only former Prime Ministers, some in the job for barely days, get explanatory signage in the Canberra suburbs named after them yet other prominent Australians are snubbed by the ACT government.
Legal columnist HUGH SELBY looks down the checklist to see how Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus is performing. The results are underwhelming...
Optus said it didn’t have the ‘soundbite’ to explain the crisis. We should expect better, writes PETER ROBERTS.
In a crisis, Optus appears to have ignored Communications 101, says ALISON STEVEN-TAYLOR.
"I learned there’s a whole IT industry out there building convincing websites and fabricating glowing Google reviews to order," writes "Whimsey" columnist CLIVE WILLIAMS.
"If he is fair dinkum, then Rattenbury will amend his new law to have a single judge decide if there are sufficient grounds to have the territory properly fund those preparing a 'second appeal' for a prisoner," writes HUGH SELBY.
PETER MARTIN explains why it’s a good bet the RBA’s Melbourne Cup Day interest rate hike will be the last.
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