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"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.
JON STANHOPE & KHALID AHMED use three graphs drawn from ABS data to show a stark picture of the ACT's nation-leading incarceration of indigenous people.
A Canberra startup is developing plastic-eating enzymes in a breakthrough for "infinitely recycling" fashion and bottles that would otherwise end up in landfill, reports MARION RAE.
For its twin summer exhibitions, the National Gallery of Australia has chosen to look at two female artists partly lost in the shadows of art history, reports HELEN MUSA.
The most rapid hair greying usually happens between ages 50 and 60. But does anything we do speed up the process? And is there anything we can do to slow it down? Here's the science.
There's the best of the best and the best of everything in this week's CityNews wrap of the year, from columnists to arts, streaming to books and food and wine, too.
"With a minority government installed, we can look forward to the New Year in the hope a government that's more accountable to the Assembly will deliver better outcomes for all Canberrans," says an optimistic MICHAEL MOORE.
Expect a week crammed full of crazy shenanigans, Geminis! And astrologer JOANNE MADELINE MOORE says Aquarians shouldn't expect close relationships to run like clockwork, either. And for Piceans? Your week in the stars is on Page 35.
Being a progressive in Canberra may seem ever so cool, that is unless you're indigenous, say JON STANHOPE & KHALID AHMED in a withering look at the people progressive Canberra is leaving behind.
"About this time each year, as Father Christmas raises his white bearded head, red cheeks glowing, I have a fantasy," writes columnist ROBERT MACKLIN. All is revealed on Page 12.
