A weekly archive of Canberra’s favourite glossy magazine
"While MP Andrew Leigh is singing the praises of traditional suburbs such as Hackett, the ACT government’s ideological mindset is to strategically bomb them with more apartments and higher-density living," writes columnist MICHAEL MOORE.
Arts editor HELEN MUSA reports that 99 years after the birth of Italian-Australian architect Enrico Taglietti comes an exhibition unique to the nation’s capital.
"Had Steel shown a little humility he would have stood out as a potential chief minister. Instead, he remains a Labor hack, another hardliner." Columnist MICHAEL MOORE isn't mincing words this week.
"The leadership demonstrated by independent MLAs Thomas Emerson and Fiona Carrick means the ACT government has now supported some of the most vulnerable people in our community," writes political columnist MICHAEL MOORE.
"Flea did not grow and mature from a complex teenager into a fine person. He always was." ANTONIO DI DIO continues his Short History of Kindness by remembering “a difficult young kid" who wasn't.
Multiple studies have identified the protective side effect of flu vaccination against heart disease, says columnist MICHAEL MOORE, also chair of the Immunization Policy Taskforce of the World Federation of Public Health Associations.
As our faltering health system wobbles on in deep distress, under poor and inept management, JON STANHOPE & KHALID AHMED prescribe a look at the acclaimed Oregon Plan, which held legislators directly accountable when things went wrong.
"The Australian 'tall-poppy syndrome', where individuals who achieve prominence are cut down, ensures no leader is spared criticism. Politicians, being highly visible figures, become easy targets for caricature," writes CLIVE WILLIAMS.
DAVID TURNBULL continues his series of profiles of Canberrans with a story. This edition, the focus is on a remarkable Dutch migrant who has built bridges between the country he grew up in and the country he now calls home.
"A bureaucratic jungle faces the hapless seeker of information… the applicant needs endless patience and either a lot of money or no money at all." HUGH SELBY wonders whose interests the ACT freedom of information process is serving.
"How parties and candidates frame their messaging and identify with voters in the first stages of the federal election will have a significant bearing on the final result," writes political columnist ANDREW HUGHES.
It’s taken prolific military historian Peter Stanley 30 years to get his latest tome – a wartime novel of sport and war – on to the bookshelves. ROD HENSHAW shares the story of the book and why it took so long to see the light of day.
Some people are described as hot blooded – but is there much of a temperature variation between individuals, and is your body temperature important? Whimsy columnist CLIVE WILLIAMS has the answers.
For members of the Liberal and National parties, Canberra bashing is an easy point-scoring exercise outside of the ACT… but they might wonder then why they do not do so well at election time in the ACT, writes MICHAEL MOORE.
"We are the apex predator in the animal kingdom. But aside from the few species we have bred as dependents – mainly dogs – every other creature on earth fears us." ROBERT MACKLIN calls for a fair go for our fellow sentient creatures.
"Canberrans lucky enough to have a garden will have an abundance of dinosaurs visiting." How is that possible? Whimsy columnist CLIVE WILLIAMS explains all on Page 9.
"Aside from nuclear war, it’s hard to imagine a more destructive act from any human being. Yet the world’s leaders have remained silent." ROBERT MACKLIN says Donald Trump's climate call is America’s day of infamy.
"Let us hope that Emerson and Carrick have the doggedness to bring light to places in Canberra where those in power intend the darkness to hide their shortcomings." HUGH SELBY writes in praise of the power of independent politicians.
"It is not just our bodies that are fragile, our hearts are softer than the Wallabies defence in Scotland, only one sad movie away from being that 8-year-old inside, still remembering hurtful things," writes columnist ANTONIO DI DIO.
