Advice for our ‘arrogant, opaque’ government
"Until governance improves, the community will continue to suffer from the misplaced priorities of this arrogant, bumbling, bone-headed and opaque government," says letter writer MIKE QUIRK.
Letters
"The territory tentacles that recently acquired seven acres of Lake Burley Griffin lakebed at West Basin, are now extending into the national land of Commonwealth Park," says letter writer JULIET RAMSAY.
CityNews readers have their say on the consequences of the Bondi shooting massacre.
This is our last letters column for this year. Thank you to all our many new and regular correspondents. The lively, passionate and often provocative opinions we publish keep the editor on his toes! So one final time for 2025...
Letters
Please, someone, clean these filthy post boxes
For years letter writer VANESSA JONES has asked for action on dirty post boxes at Kippax shops.
Garden-sculpture thieves exhaust Tom and Claire
"Karma comes around," warns letter writer CLAIRE EAMES, of Holt, to thieves who have taken her husband Tom's garden sculpture – "a pretty lowdown act to steal from elderly people".
Letters
‘How appalling’: sports club lost to apartment blocks
"Kids and adults will be forced to give up their indoor sports competitions. How can such well used and valued assets be ripped away from the community they have served? Shame ACT government, shame!" says letter writer DIANNE DEANE.
Mark Parton has to transform his disparate party room into a cohesive opposition, develop a suite of policies that resonate with the electorate, then sell it to the voters. A tall order, says letter writer, IAN DE LANDELLES.
"To get dangerous, dead trees removed by our local government requires the 'patience of saints'," says letter writer ERWIN WEGNER of Giralang.
Denial of opportunity has not been the real problem; feminists have been duped by technology, says letter writer JOHN L SMITH, of Farrer.
"Comfortable houses and mature trees, lawns and gardens would be bulldozed over a 3.5 kilometre stretch." Letter writer SIMON SCOTT is concerned about rezoning on the western edges of Watson and Downer.
Reader ROSS KELLY is staggered to discover the road into his sleepy corner of Canberra is to be resealed – again. He reckons it doesn't need it.
"Ben Roberts-Smith earned his Victoria Cross and Medal of Gallantry in some faraway foreign land that his government saw fit to send him in order to fight an enemy of a terrorist regime," says letter writer and former soldier ROSS E SMITH.
Letter writer RON EDGECOMBE says there is so much for the ACT to learn from the Tasmanian Planning Commission report on the Hobart stadium proposal.
"The national capital and territory planning 'authorities', as minor units of government bureaucracies, will roll over and accept whatever the ACT insists on," says letter writer RICHARD JOHNSON, of Kingston.
"Shorter journey time is key to patronage take up. Light rail 2b will take longer, especially if it's routed through Barton – a turn off for patrons who don’t want to waste time sitting in a tram," says letter writer RUSS MORRISON.
"Ask yourself: if 63 people were dying on our roads every year, would the ACT government stand by and do nothing? Of course not. So why is nothing done when the cause of death is air pollution?" says letter writer DARYL JOHNSTON.
The ANU's full leadership team should not assume that the Canberra community, which includes many concerned ANU donors, will remain committed to supporting ANU getting to wherever it is being driven to, says letter writer SUE DYER.
"We did not want to sell... But we had no alternatives. No money to contest legally. We needed our kids to live somewhere safe. So I signed the papers, surrendering under duress." Mr Fluffy affected homeowner MARK HARRADINE, remembers...
