Wilful blindness makes for poor policy on bail laws
"Much can be done to improve remand. The government should be seeking to do so." HUGH SELBY takes deep dive into the state of bail laws in the ACT.
Opinion
Views on the news from Canberra’s top columnists
"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.
From GPS to weather forecasts: CASSANDRA STEER outlines the hidden ways Australia relies on foreign satellites.
KEEPING UP THE ACT looks at what happened when Indie MLA Thomas Emerson dropped the shame of indigenous incarceration into the Legislative Assembly...
Opinion
Cartoon / Dose of Dorin
Too soon? Cartoonist PAUL DORIN tiptoes around why some people are trying to forget this past election.
Letters
What a shame the government’s killing dingoes
"Dingoes are not wild dogs. Using this vague term risks the needless killing of a native apex predator essential to healthy ecosystems," says letter writer WHITNEY ANDERS RICHARDSON.
Opinion
There’s no place like (living in a cohousing) home
"Cohousing Canberra, has been drawing up plans for a 30-unit development for the past few years. The member-elected committee has worked with members on a vision to model sustainable and co-operative living," writes TONI HASSAN.
Too late? Time will tell, says cartoonist PAUL DORIN.
"Sofronoff got away from us. Never again. If there is an inquiry, we’ll know before it starts what the outcomes will be." HUGH SELBY imagines what Labor's thinking in the wake of agreeing to an inquiry into indigenous deaths in custody.
In this first of a two-part series, MIKE QUIRK outlines the evolution of the metropolitan planning strategy since the late 1950s and issues associated with an urban growth boundary.
"Many of those who started jogging when it became trendy in the 1970s, now have knee and hip problems," writes Whimsy columnist CLIVE WILLIAMS, who looks at the pros and cons of running.
From the mouths of babes... a scary prospect! PAUL DORIN draws for all parents in this cartoon.
This week KEEPING UP THE ACT interviews Canberrans about their satisfaction with the ACT government... it's not pretty.
The World Health Organization argues vaccination is second only to clean water and sanitation in protecting the health of populations.
"A day began with a reasoned point of view about something: politics, sport, religion, veterans, lifestyle – current issues to be confirmed or questioned by the editorial." Columnist HUGH SELBY wants to make editorials great again.
Cartoonist PAUL DORIN asks the question we're all wondering about.
"The community has little trust in decisions of the current planning authority despite its extraordinarily laborious internal processes now involving four stages of assessment of DAs with separate officers for each," says RICHARD JOHNSTON.
LEELA ROSS and others take umbrage at an earlier letter calling on the Canberra Jewish community to justify the actions of the Israeli government in Gaza.
Cartoonist PAUL DORIN would vote for anything if you'd let him!
