Budget Dose of Dorin
Winners and losers, it's budget time, says cartoonist PAUL DORIN.
Opinion
Views on the news from Canberra’s top columnists
With apologies to Britney Spears, KEEPING UP THE ACT devotes the column to Betty Blunder, Labor's lady of lapses.
Specialist doctors are charging too much. ANTHONY SCOTT has four options to rein in excessive fees...
"So who are the main under achievers, apart from the obvious ones of Chief Minister Andrew Barr and his Treasurer Chris Steel?" Letter writer RIC HINGEE isn't shy to name names...
Opinion
We didn’t create this mess; time for tough talk
ACT debt is $11 billion and rising. HUGH SELBY is calling for a debt management and reduction summit that would ask experienced, likely former, federal public servants to share the wisdom our Treasury officials are not permitted to utter.
Opinion
Perfume’s invisible language of self-expression
"Perfume isn’t only about how others perceive you – it’s also about how you feel. A fragrance can alter mood, confidence and self-perception almost instantly," writes Whimsy columnist CLIVE WILLIAMS.
Opinion
Taimus, mate, it’s time to leave the 19th century
Lawmaker Taimus Werner-Gibbings', after 1.5 years in the Assembly, has taken the mighty step to reduce the number of peremptory challenges in jury selection. "This isn’t even tokenism. It’s just pathetic," writes legal columnist HUGH SELBY.
The rate rises are taking their toll, says cartoonist PAUL DORIN.
KEEPING UP THE ACT catches up with the latest pronouncements of Jim 'Bomber' Bombsley, the Grand Field Marshal of the Australian War Glamorial.
The ACT Government has opted to send light rail Stage 2B up Commonwealth Avenue to State Circle east, despite the NCA originally wanting it to go up Kings Avenue and through Barton. But RICHARD JOHNSTON says we should forget it all.
"The increase in locally renewably-produced energy would free-up oil supplies for use in areas where increasing electrification is more complex such as mining and manufacturing," says letter writer MIKE QUIRK, of Garran.
"Sally Dowling's extraordinary explanation is that the decision to do over the judge was made at a meeting attended by her, but at which she was preoccupied with her mobile phone to the exclusion of all else," writes HUGH SELBY.
These tough economic times are taking their toll, says cartoonist PAUL DORIN.
"A few, undeserving and awful people wield far too much power," says columnist HUGH SELBY. "They hold it for themselves. The rest of us are like scurrying mice, hoping not to be squelched."
Believe it or not, Shane Rattenbury's hung up his pith helmet and departed the Legislative Assembly. KEEPING UP THE ACT looks at what might be next for the wilting Greens leader.
"In my late 50s I met Bill in one of my privileged roles. We had so much in common it was uncanny, and then – and then – I wept and he had to comfort me," writes Kindness columnist ANTONIO DI DIO.
Letter writer DIANNE DEANE has some sympathy for the seniors who lost their exercise class when CIT Bruce cancelled its higher-level intensity classes for over 60-year-olds, but GLENN ARMSTRONG may have an answer...
"Our public events should reflect a common Australian purpose, not one that divides, not one that seeks to prefer one part of the community to others," writes columnist HUGH SELBY.
Cartoonist PAUL DORIN takes a look at the government's NDIS dilemma.
