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Opinion

Labor-Greens Government refuse to fix ACT housing crisis

In this opinion piece, Liberal Senator for the ACT, Senator Zed Seselja, argues it is the ACT Labor-Greens Government's deliberate squeeze on land supply that is at the core of the ACT housing crisis.

To the editor: Payne ‘needs to get her facts right’

This letter writer says Labor MP Alicia Payne needs to get her facts right and is critical of state Labor governments' pandemic management.

Respite Care for Queanbeyan needs ongoing funding

With the Monaro by-election on 12 February, it would be great to know the position of the local candidates on where their support is for Respite Care for Queanbeyan.

Urgent call for help to save Australia’s live entertainment industry

In this open letter to Australian leaders, live entertainment industry veteran Stephen White calls for urgent assistance so the industry can survive.

Vulnerable Australians left behind by pandemic mismanagement

In this month’s op-ed piece, Labor Member for Canberra, Alicia Payne, argues the Morrison Government has mismanaged the pandemic and is leaving vulnerable Australians behind.

Vale, Colonel Adrian Roberts

Bill Stefaniak felt honoured to meet the late Colonel Adrian Roberts, a Vietnam War hero who fought at Long Tan and lived in Canberra.

ACT drug decriminalisation push hits cul-de-sac

The ACT Legislative Assembly’s Bill to decriminalise the use of heroin, ice, speed, cocaine and ecstasy has hit a legal roadblock, according to Gary Christian, research director of Drug Free Australia (DFA).

To the editor: Stefaniak’s rosy view of Australia Day

Bill Stefaniak's laughable white-washing of the complex relationship between Australia Day and Australia's Indigenous people (CW, 20 Jan) is unworthy of your readers.

Why all Australians should celebrate 26 January

In a few days’ time we will mark Australia Day, which has become controversial in some quarters in recent times.

The ACT a great example of a Labor-Greens alliance

Senator Zed Seselja, Liberal Senator for the ACT, argues the failings of the ACT Government demonstrates the type of government one could expect from a Federal Labor-Greens alliance.

Opinion: Canberra Liberals promise to keep public safe in uncertain year

Canberra Liberals leader Elizabeth Lee reflects on the year that was, and shares her hopes for the new year.

Will this pandemic deter future generations of nurses?

There was a global shortage of nurses … and then the pandemic hit. Researchers, including a Charles Sturt academic, investigate how COVID-19 has affected an already struggling nursing industry and what can be done to save it.

Free rapid antigen tests makes economic sense for governments, our analysis shows

We’ve developed a model that estimates how cost-effective a policy of government-funded rapid antigen tests for all Australians would be.

‘Go Local First’ this Christmas to help Canberra business

Federal Member for Canberra, Alicia Payne MP, urges Canberrans to 'Go Local First' this Christmas to help small businesses in our region survive another tough year, and hopefully still be here to prosper in 2022.

To the editor: Freedom of speech Bill

If R. Jones and T. Gordon (CW letters 16 December 2012) think that Bill Stefaniak’s column should not be published in the Canberra Daily, this reader suggests they both go back to their left-leaning, Labor/Greens-loving media echo chambers.

To the editor: Young human brain not fully developed

There are calls to allow young people 16-17 to be allowed to vote. It is accepted virtually universally that the human brain does not fully develop until 22-24 years.

To the editor: What are Greens trying to do?

I think it is time for Bill Stefaniak to go back into politics. A man with so much intelligence and fight is wasted in not fighting for the people of Canberra.

To the editor: Clearly partisan

In his latest column (CW 9 December 2021 p10), Bill Stefaniak appears to allow his cynical partisan view of the world to dominate his thinking.

To the editor: Sensational nastiness

I am very disappointed in the CW for allowing the sensational nastiness from Bill Stefaniak to rant in your magazine.

Green ‘gerrymander’ set to trash ACT electoral system

Just when you thought we were safe from more Green madness, we now have two Green government backbenchers introducing into the Assembly a bill to lower the voting age in ACT elections to 16.

Opinion: Respect and make space for disability leadership

Advocacy for Inclusion's Stacy Rheese wants society to recognise and respect the diverse examples of disability leadership.

Travel bans aren’t the answer to stopping new COVID variant Omicron

There is global concern and widespread alarm, including talk of new travel bans, following the discovery of new COVID variant Omicron.

Supporting kids, improving safety at heart of raising the age reform

ACT Greens leader and ACT Attorney-General Shane Rattenbury responds to Bill Stefaniak's column on raising the age of criminal responsibility (CW 25 November 2021, p.14), arguing that supporting marginalised kids and improving community safety is at the heart of the ACT's reforms.

Healthy waterways build a healthy city

Canberra’s lakes and waterways are a central part of life in the capital. As a child, my favourite thing to do as a treat was to hire a paddle boat on Lake Burley Griffin with my parents.

Some 13-year-olds do commit serious crime, Shane

Long-suffering Canberra citizens are going to be used as guinea pigs for another social experiment, this time by our Greens Attorney-General raising the age of criminal responsibility from 10 to 14 years.

Working from home has put an end to ‘casual collisions’ that build trust

For many of us it feels like there’s no going back. We’ve had working from home foisted upon us. We don’t want to give it all up.

City Hill: Canberra’s ‘bellybutton of shame’

While City Hill might look like a verdant grassy knoll dotted with pines, on closer inspection it's overrun with rabbits, pockmarked by warrens and sorely neglected.

Cain: ACT Government ‘sitting on hands’ on land supply and housing

Canberra Liberals MLA for Ginninderra, Peter Cain, writes that the ACT Government should take action on rising house prices via land release.

To the editor: Stefaniak denying climate science

No, Bill Stefaniak, it is not okay to dismiss Greta Thunberg as ‘troubled’ (CW 11 November 2021 p8). Anger is a rational response to the unfolding disaster of climate change.

Stefaniak: Glasgow ignores China’s nuclear power pledge

Congratulations this week to, of all people, President Xi and his comrades for announcing that China will build over the next decade 150 new nuclear power stations.
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