How does the ACT government ensure that raw political and union loyalties are more than balanced out by higher quality experience, skills and abilities needed for publicly paid-for staffer positions, asks letter writer SUE DYER, of Downer.
The blinding brightness of exterior vehicle light indicator and headlight design, whether electric vehicles or just the ordinary sedan, adds to what is already a volatile driving experience on Canberra roads, writes ANGELA KUETER-LUKS.
"Having paid someone more than $700,000 over two years while not carrying out any specified duties, the public deserves some honest enlightenment instead of just being told about a well-timed retreat from the public payroll," says SUE DYER.
The ACT budget appears to be a case of massive hubris, detachment from the real world, continuing reliance on past policy focuses and an innate inability to understand and respond to changing circumstances, says letter writer RON EDGECOMBE.
Letter writer JACK KERSHAW sees and emerging Acton Peninsula as the logical place for the light rail to cross the lake. Walter Burley Griffin's unbuilt third bridge suggests Mr Kershaw has a point.
"The ACT shows disregard for actual public service delivery. No wonder Canberrans throw up our hands and put up with dirty, litter-strewn, vandalised roads, parks and infrastructure," says letter writer G NIELSEN.
Letter writer DARRYL JOHNSTON,of Tuggeranong says "it's worthwhile drawing public attention to the recent actions of the Danish Consumer Ombudsman against what it considered was 'greenwashing' of wood heaters and wood burning.
"It’s a trap in the system that Canberrans should be alert to," says community leader DR DAVID DENHAM. "Decisions on knock-down rebuilds of single dwellings in Canberra cannot be scrutinised, even if they have a DA."
Letter writer SUE DYER, of Downer, says: "All Liberal candidates should make clear their commitment, or otherwise, to ensuring that the final form of our VAD system is adequately supported and resourced in the next Assembly term."
"Economic rationalism... drove the Commonwealth's Canberra policy away from [the] grandiose construction ethic of creating a monument to Australia's national identity," says letter writer JOHN D PURCELL, of Kambah.
"It has become increasingly apparent the government is hell-bent on digging an even larger financial and social hole by extending light rail," says letter writer MIKE QUIRK.
Letter writer COLIN LYONS, of Fadden, says the neglect of the Transport Canberra information office in Alinga Street, Civic, is an example of "incompetent public transport management in Canberra by the government".
"If encouraged, the golf course roos will move off on to the reserve, but I have no doubt they will be unnecessarily and brutally slaughtered." Letter writer GWENDA GRIFFITHS despairs for the Red Hill kangaroos.
"We are more informed and better educated today about... the harmful health impacts of smoke from wood heaters, despite what the wood-heating industry claims," says letter writer DARRYL JOHNSTON, of Tuggeranong.
No doubt the ACT government's rhinestone cowboys will again be eagerly salivating the opportunity to fine citizens paying Anzac Day homage to those who did something worthwhile for their country, says letter writer JOHN MURRAY, of Fadden.
"The extent of high-rise development in the Woden Town Centre is beyond the pale. Similarly in Belconnen it has gone too far," says letter writer COLIN LYONS, of Weetangera.
"Elizabeth Lee's right that there should be an inquiry into the currently opaque LVC system. But rather than telegraphing the outcome, the LVC assessments should become publicly available," says letter writer IAN HUBBARD.
For letter writer GARY SHAPCOTT, of Hughes, the federal government's plans for aged care have become painfully personal.
All up (build plus 20 years operations and maintenance), light rail Stage 2 to Woden will be about $5.2 billion ($1.7 billion for 2A and $3.5 billion for 2B. Hair-raising stuff, says letter writer MAX FLINT.
