URBAN development and renewal in a city the size and age of Canberra should be innovative, creative, exciting, visually and physically appealing, high quality and a source of pride for years to come. It should […]

IS BURT (the Braddon United Retailers and Traders) really serious about making the roundabouts in Braddon “celebrated icons” of adversity, challenges and triumphs (“Seven Days”, CN November 22)? It was bad enough that the Chief […]

PAUL Costigan’s astute observations about the devaluing of community inputs to ACT government consultation processes would strike a loud chord with many who attended the recent “design” workshop on the revitalisation of Section 72 in […]

I AM concerned at the apparent complacency shown by our Emergency Services bureaucracy to the dangers of vehicles being stolen and then set alight in remote parking areas such as Paddys River, Point Hut Crossing, […]

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 […]

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 […]

IT would appear either arrogance or defiance that Bayer/Monsanto mounted a television advertising campaign for its glyphosate product. These ads followed almost immediately after the ABC’s “Four Corners” program revealed its possible links to cancer. […]

DAVID Rolfe is completely right (“Rising rates park misery on Melrose Drive” CN, October 11), no business should see these massive cost increases with nothing to show for it; we are certainly not getting better […]

RECENTLY, I visited the Canberra Hospital five times to see a patient. On each visit only one of the four hand sanitisers near the entrance was working. On the first occasion I asked where I […]

MALCOLM Turnbull needed a few more days in The Lodge, thinks columnist Robert Macklin (CN, September 20). Really? Why? So he could destroy, irrevocably, the Liberal Party he purported to lead? Fortunately rank-and-file members persuaded […]

I ENJOYED reading Paul Costigan’s recent “Canberra Matters” column (CN, September 13) where he commented on the fact that Canberra was not necessarily an age-friendly city, despite the best efforts of aged-care workers and the […]

COLUMNIST Paul Costigan (“Bishop moves to checkmate his neighbours”, CN, August 30) will need to wave a magic wand if he expects the Anglican bishop to take his media advice and talk directly to his […]

MAYBE it’s time the people of Canberra threw out the out-of-date Labor/Greens government. The current Labor/Greens government is systematically ruining and poisoning this beautiful city of ours. The rates keep going up and they keep […]

COLUMNIST Michael Moore seeks a needle-exchange program in the Alexander Maconochie Centre (“Prison guards ‘should not set policy’”, CN, July 25). He writes that “while there had been breakthroughs in anti-viral medicines, prevention was better […]

THE new Crace bus service has no direct bus to the city, which is absolutely insane as residents have to change multiple times to get there. Route 54 must pass through the Barton Highway and […]

THE article, “New choir plans to empower girls through music” (CN July 5), does concern me, so I hope the choir replies. Nicole Muir, CEO of the hosting organisation, the Australian School of Performing Arts, […]

MICHAEL Moore is spot on with his piece on the appalling planning state of our beautiful city (CN, July 12). I ask myself exactly the same questions he does every time I drive past the […]

RETURNING to work after July 1, like thousands of other Canberra workers who have to park in one of the many ACT government-operated parking lots, I got yet another stark reminder that Andrew Barr and […]

I REFER to Michael Moore’s column (“Arrogant Labor’s thumbs up to cynical push polling”, CN June 28) regarding questions requiring “black and white” responses to planning surveys. The government is proposing Territory Plan Variations to […]