David Jones’ business model explains why it failed
David Jones built its reputation on service, convenience and exclusivity. ROBERT CRAWFORD explains how the loss of those advantages contributed to its collapse into administration.
Opinion
Views on the news from Canberra’s top columnists
Even thieves are doing it tough during this cost-of-living crisis, says cartoonist PAUL DORIN.
"Bamboozle and nincompoop are reminders that English develops through usage rather than design, shaped by social interaction, error, and creativity," writes Whimsy columnist CLIVE WILLIAMS.
Cartoonist PAUL DORIN's found the problem to slowing inflation down...
Opinion
KEEPING UP THE ACT
KEEPING UP THE ACT sees a correlation between a $63-210 million contract for infringement cameras and 65,000 patients getting ceremoniously dumped off Canberra Health Service waiting lists.
Letters
No need: leave the Mawson tennis courts alone
There is no justification for an additional supermarket in Mawson, says letter writer PETER CLAUGHTON.
HUGH SELBY gets a growling request to stand up for 'the doggie sensation of our times, Bluey' in the face of a political imposter that has brought untold shame and distress, not only to her but to everyone in her family.
"Allegations that Russia possesses compromising material on Trump date principally from 2016-17. The Steele dossier alleged that Russian intelligence had collected damaging personal information," writes CLIVE WILLIAMS.
"To be blunt, shackling an expectant mother, whether in prison or elsewhere, is nothing short of barbaric," bemoans indigenous advocate JULIE TONGS.
Barack Obama pointed out that people – being hungry for solutions to the problems they now face – need to see what real leadership looks like. But, says HUGH SELBY, we have no such leadership in Australia. "We're in a bad place".
Illegal tobacco in the ACT? It's all about human rights. Why doesn't the customs minister get it? Let KEEPING UP THE ACT explain...
Another cartoon from the wry eye of PAUL DORIN.
"There are some ovals in the Belconnen area that are surrounded by capeweed and in places the weed is now growing on the oval," writes reader RON ROBERTSON, of Scullin.
Australia's aged care, child care and disability services are increasingly run as businesses, but at what cost? GABRIELLE MEAGHER examines why the market model is failing those who depend on care.
"Tissues of lies peddled without shame. No tissues for the tears of the damaged kids." HUGH SELBY calls out the ACT Government's new Youth Justice Strategic Plan for what it is: "A deliberate mirage, intended to deceive."
It's cup time, but cartoonist PAUL DORIN says his money's not on any of these these prospects.
"Purists will tell you the word 'decimate' dates back to the Roman practice of killing one in 10, but in common usage it just means 'devastate'. Whimsy columnist CLIVE WILLIAMS shares some words where their meanings have changed.
"Some folks never learn to read the room… they hear someone’s pain that reflects their experience and say to the woman weeping at her miscarriage, 'that’s nothing, I had six of them'," writes Kindness columnist ANTONIO DI DIO.
