Views on the news from Canberra’s top columnists
Whimsy columnist CLIVE WILLIAMS got predictable responses when he researched an article on what gave people pleasure, so he changed his question and asked what people found annoying. Then things got interesting...
Legal columnist HUGH SELBY looks at the dangers of being scammed while paying bills by email without first double-checking the banking details. Get it wrong and you could be paying twice!
DeepSeek: TOMGLIANG LIU explains how a small Chinese AI company is shaking up US tech heavyweights.
The Fair Work Commission says employees must now be “properly trained” in policies about workplace conduct, "not through a tick-and-flick exercise", reports industrial law expert RICHARD CALVER.
JON STANHOPE & KHALID AHMED use three ABS graphs to draw a stark picture of the ACT's nation-leading incarceration of indigenous people.
Australia has experimented with drug summits for 40 years. They've come with highs and lows, writes ROSS FITZGERALD.
In the second of his two-part series on managing population growth, planning columnist MIKE QUIRK looks more locally and finds the ACT needs to lift its game...
Letter writer RON EDGECOMBE, of Rivett, wonders if Andrew Barr's City Hill land sale is consistent with Walter Burley Griffin’s master plan for the future development of the existing open landscape environs surrounding the lake.
How nice it is to be able to celebrate, recent judicial work of “law and science” both so comprehensive, and of such quality, that other decision makers, lawyers, teachers and students can turn to it as a model columnist HUGH SELBY.
Are public schools really ‘free’? Families can pay hundreds of dollars in voluntary fees, says EMMA ROWE.
Support for changing date of Australia Day softens, but remains strong among young people, says new research.
Mind-bending, body-snatching, blood-sucking: parasites are bizarre yet vital for life on Earth, says EUAN RITCHIE.
"My only concern is Trump's dealing with China, but even there I think his tariff threats are part of his so-called Art of the Deal. Will he sacrifice American lives to prevent a Chinese takeover of Taiwan? Really?" writes ROBERT MACKLIN.
"Hopefully politicians will learn from LA that spending funds on fortifying our city against the natural disasters of climate change is more important than running a tram to Woden before it is too late," writes BEATRICE BODART-BAILEY.
In 1947 overseas migration was seen as essential to increase living standards by developing natural resources and to increase national security. But what now, wonders MIKE QUIRK.
"It’s bad practice [for] the commission to take four years to investigate and report on an issue where the facts were readily discoverable." HUGH SELBY doubles down on his call to abolish the snail-pace ACT Integrity Commission.
"At least 50,000 innocents have died in Gaza since October 2023 and the failure of the Jewish, Muslim and Christian religious leaders reveals the chasmic gap between religious teaching and religious-based conduct," writes HUGH SELBY.
Electric car sales have slumped. Misinformation is one of the reasons, say MILAD HAGHANI & HADI GHADERI.
Whimsy columnist CLIVE WILLIAMS devotes his column to digital living – the art of being constantly connected, yet somehow never truly there.
