Letters: Catholic schools are leaners rather than lifters
Catholic schools' resistance to the revised Gonski model of funding is predictable but disappointing.
Letters to the Editor
Canberra Times Letters to the Editor: Let’s cut Abdel-Magied a little slack, she is a fine Australian
Yassmin Abdel-Magied has contributed to Australia as a thinker and advocate, not just a settler.
Canberra Times Letters to the Editor: Chief Minister’s public housing comment opens door on criticism
What a street fighter and posturer the Chief Minister is.
Railroaded on light rail with consultation aimed to distract
Here we go again. A light rail proposal. No clear objective of what it is to achieve.
A public mockery
After 91 submissions, most condemning the plastics plant, Mr Gentleman has recommended against approval.
Premier shoots from the lip
Gladys Berejiklian's rant raises worrying questions about her understanding of the Australian Federation and basic tenets of our democracy.
Opportunities no longer exist
It's really not fair that so many of us had a free education but now young people are harshly penalised.
Don’t put tram in a jam
The announcement of possible routes for the Civic-Woden light rail project is an exercise in futility.
Vitriol has scuttled an important debate
April began and ended with cowardly attacks on outspoken Muslim-born women from racists, trolls and religious extremists.
Embracing freedom, America's greatness lies in the barrel of a gun
US President Donald Trump revealed that the greatest single risk of his presidency will be in dealing with the North Korean nuclear crisis.
Empanel a citizen jury to consider verdict on legislative disassembly
Can we have a 'citizen jury' to consider the question of sacking the Legislative Assembly.
Fair dinkum mate
The key to a successful life in Australia is to be a competent English speaker. Is that a value?
Canberra Times Letters to the Editor: If the cap fits, Barnaby
I was trying to make sense of Barnaby Joyce's utterances supporting his call to move the AVMA to Armidale ...
Canberra Times Letters to the Editor: Neglected Namadgi
There are no tracks and it required near superhuman strength to make progress in places.
Letters: Follow the Canadian lead on housing
It might be time to start taxing house sales to buyers who are not Australian passport holders.
Canberra Times Letters to the Editor: Honour our fallen and scorn the politicians who waged the wars
Parliamentarians on Anzac Day mouth words like they were "fighting for democracy" or "a better tomorrow" but neither a better life nor peace followed.
Canberra Times Letters to the Editor: Australia well positioned to hold measured talks with North Korea
Mark Kenny's article makes no attempt to look at the situation from a North Korean perspective.
Turnbull and Dutton don't display the Australian Values they profess
Malcolm Turnbull is full of bluster about "Australian Values", but when pressed for detail offers slogans.
Controlling 'truth'
The government's response to trouble on Manus Island was no surprise.
Letters: Gust of hot air won’t blow sense into APS relocation
The cost of decentralisation will be astronomical at a time we are supposed to be addressing an enormous budget deficit.
Leaders too unfit to 'deter'
Trump insists that we need US nuclear weapons for our protection and refuses to rule out their use on our behalf.
PM's justification for visa changes misses the ‘real issue’
We hear of no serious attempts by the government to protect workers' wages and conditions.
Letters to the editor: World literature a storehouse of propaganda on economics
Thank you for your enlightening piece on how Harry Potter has provided a generation of impressionable youth with incorrect economic ideas.
Letters to the editor: There is no point hiding – they know exactly where to find us
I have a personal electronic monitor, otherwise known as my Samsung S4 mobile phone, with me constantly.
Community must create services before housing tenants move in
The proposed relocation of public housing tenants to Weston Creek is a vexed and very emotive issue.
Letters to the Editor: A question of faith
Faith, atheism, housing affordability and a late-running tram.
Controversial ABC flats site continues to raise questions
How could a developer buy an enormous block of Civic land without knowing about the very public controversy surrounding it?
Letters to the editor: Let India pay for its mine
And how did an 'external' bus report become an 'internal' government secret?
Letters to the editor: Public-housing debate is not what it seems
Reading recent letters pages, one could be forgiven for thinking that the heartless ACT government has been clearing Braddon of public housing.
Letters to the editor: Dept of Defence, not attack
In his first measured statement on military matters, President Donald Trump said: "It is in the vital national security interest of the United States to prevent and deter the spread and use of deadly chemical weapons."