Bondi letters: The people who allowed hatred to fester
CityNews readers have their say on the consequences of the Bondi shooting massacre.
Opinion
Views on the news from Canberra’s top columnists
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...
"If a passing greengrocer has the guts to risk his life at Bondi beach then I should risk being called names for writing a few cautionary words," says columnist HUGH SELBY.
"Having spent far too many hours getting nowhere, I pushed the button to renew the software. I am able to write this article which maybe means I am re-signed to a program I don’t want." Columnist HUGH SELBY continues his tilt at Microsoft.
Opinion
Come back, Bill Gates, Microsoft needs a human like you!
"Microsoft cannot accept or process a new subscription until the existing one has been exhausted... Their mighty software has a glaringly stupid glitch." Columnist HUGH SELBY goes searching for humans to fix his software problem.
Opinion
‘Human’ story triumphs in telling Christian history
"Delving into pre-Christian sources for historical evidence is a difficult and dangerous game since the believers assert their right to censor and alter anything that doesn’t conform to the party line," writes columnist ROBERT MACKLIN.
Opinion
KEEPING UP THE ACT
"Santa" has written a special Christmas postcard to all his Labor MLAs at Trammany Hall, telling them to be good while daddy's away! KEEPING UP THE ACT's got a copy of it...
"It was a lightbulb moment to realise that small children get it right. Christmas is when they are spoiled rotten by Santa, parents and other relatives… but the payoff is what’s under the tree," writes a nostalgic HUGH SELBY.
"It needs to be demonstrated why paying 75 per cent of the increase in land value from a lease change is not sufficient incentive to encourage the desired development outcomes," writes planning columnist MIKE QUIRK.
Barnaby Joyce surprised no one this week and finally thrown his lot in with Pauline Hanson's One Nation party. Cartoonist PAUL DORIN captures the euphoria...
For years letter writer VANESSA JONES has asked for action on dirty post boxes at Kippax shops.
"Commissioner Minty has paid significant attention in her report to the importance of a 'structured day' in the rehabilitation of prison detainees," writes indigenous advocate JULIE TONGS.
"When your model relies on what is effectively a toilet tax, it only reinforces one truth – in Canberra, it is literally crap for business," writes GWYN REES.
"We must cross our fingers that Linda Reynolds retains an advocate who excels at cross-examination. Perhaps it will be our court-watchers’ Christmas present from Albo’s team fro 2026." Legal columnist HUGH SELBY sees gifts all around us...
"How often have you seen the victims win a revolution, then become worse than the original oppressor? How often have you seen someone vanquish a school bully then become just as toxic themselves," asks Kindness columnist ANTONIO DI DIO.
Tracing stolen property using tracking apps comes with complexities when the police get involved, says Whimsy columnist CLIVE WILLIAMS.
"How do the reforms overcome the obstacle of missing middle projects providing fewer opportunities for economies of scale than higher-density projects? To date the projects have provided high-end, not affordable housing," writes MIKE QUIRK.
KEEPING UP THE ACT drops in on the Labor Princesses gathering for the Emily's List Christmas party...
"Karma comes around," warns letter writer CLAIRE EAMES, of Holt, to thieves who have taken…
