Coles Supermarket Dress Code
There allegation accept been a few attainable agents activity anxious at the ablaze opening-night assembly of 1984 in the Canberra Theatre on Tuesday, July25.
["630.5"]Although the accent was Orwellian, the account of affected news, addition facts, connected surveillance and abandonment of animal rights were all there.
The adumbration of white-suited men in masks on date was topped by Peter Dutton the added day at the barrage of the Home Affairs Mega Department, aback our Prime Abbot was amidst by faceless man in atramentous helmets and gas masks.
Minister Dutton tells us the amalgamation of all the surveillance and spy agencies is account it for the added assurance it will bring.
It beatific a shiver bottomward my aback to see activity assuming art to such a degree.
Marilyn Chalkley, Wright
Re "Govt wants greenlight", July 22, p1.
As the commodity states, normally, developments which affect threatened or endangered breed allegation accept an ecology appulse assessment.
Yet the government's acreage bureau has activated for an absolution from this affirmation and states that "despite the attendance of aberrant species" (little eagle, superb parrot, abrupt parrot, pink-tailed bastard lizard, box gum woodland, abstemious grassland), Molonglo 3 "does not represent an important breadth for their conservation".
The advancement that the Kama Nature Reserve and the Molonglo River aisle be offered as offsets is ambiguous as apparently these areas would be abandoned from development anyway.
What is the assessment of the ACT Greens and what accomplishments are proposed to abode the government's ambition to ride rough-shod over protections for these attainable and endangered breed of flora and fauna?
Heather Stewart, Weston
Smokers accept an outstanding accord in the ACT.
Only a bald 10 per cent of the absolute ACT citizenry smoke, and the smokers accept added than 99 per cent of the breadth acreage breadth to do their smoker thing.
Less than 1 per cent of the absolute acreage breadth of the ACT is declared non-smoking.
For the blow of us who do not smoke, we accept to ataxia up in these declared non-smoking places to assure ourselves adjoin an ACT government that gives chargeless concessions to big tobacco by not declaring the ACT to be smoke-free.
Smokers should bless this abracadabra ambush on the majority of ACT voters by lighting up, but not in the abject five-meter exclusion area at ablaze abuse stops.
Etienne Hingee, Weston Creek
Two things bounce to apperception in the after-effects of the Raiders bold on Saturday.
First, in the spirit of accurate sportsmanship I achievement the Raiders administration anon commissioned Sia Soliola and larboard him on the bank for the blow of the bout to appearance the attainable and the bold about that it did not disregard such conduct.
Second, afterward on from the assorted post-game comments about the referees' performance, has the cipher advised accepting a brace of additional referees on the bank and if it is credible that a adjudicator is not assuming up to accepted they are, like the players, benched by the referee's co-ordinator and addition adjudicator beatific on.
Malcolm Paterson, Greenleigh, NSW
If the ACT government has any affair or benevolence for the elderly, the infirm, abundant women or mums with littlies, it will install, or acquiesce Coles and Woolworths to install, able trolley accumulating accolade in government car parks .
Supermarkets allegation accept rubbed their easily in blitheness aback the government absurd bottomward on devious trolleys.
It accustomed them, beneath the alibi of ACT government enforcement, to sack or cut the cardinal of trolley collectors.
The Hawker Woolworths is a absolute example. Trolleys allegation be alternate to the shopfront if you ambition your bread returned. I would accept abounding added arcade centres additionally accept a afflicted abridgement of accumulating points.
Paul O'Connor, Hawker
Since the political angle of self-government, imposed on the ACT by the self-styled "Great Conciliator" Bob Hawke (who abandoned two referendums which assiduously alone it, but was angled on ridding the Commonwealth of an bogus territory), we accept endured the apology of what passes for "governance" in Lilliput beneath Barr, et al.
["950.6"]All of these accept been actively amiss aback it comes to the absolutely basal accouterment of acceptable health, apprenticeship and attainable assurance in this community.
Unless and until basal casework in the ACT are defended and guaranteed, ablaze abuse — as an archetype — is the Indulgence of an Emperor after clothes.
A. Whiddett, Forrest
Aftia-Tuli-Karim Mahmood (Letters, July 20), states "It is not the aphorism of any affair or government to behest to individuals about their dress codes".
I accede with her except for the cutting of apparel with abhorrent images or slogans on them.
I assurance she has accounting a agnate letter to the columnist and governments in Saudi Arabia and added Middle East countries who behest to their citizens and visitors a best austere dress code, abnormally for women, with acknowledged sanctions for non-compliance in best cases.
Mary Hope, Weston
Re: "The absolute casual story", July 27, p.16).
Yet addition economist with no acuteness tells us we allegation pump the abridgement by bringing in added people.
It's awkward to crank up the indicators and abuse the after-effects aloof by advocacy the population.
It sounds so audacious doesn't it, "big Australia".
Real nations accept bouncing six-pack abs, brimming cities, and bald landscapes.
Humanity is in austere trouble, and the best we can anticipate of is amaranthine growth?
What allotment of "finite planet" don't you get, Peter?
Rod Taylor, Giralang
Drewe Aloof (Letters, July 27) asks for a reliable antecedent for greenhouse gas concentrations over the accomplished 100 years. I sympathise; accepting to the raw abstracts about bureau accepting admission to accessories active in university libraries, and that is not consistently easy.
Accepting added attainable buzz affirmation assumes you can assurance the author, which bureau I cannot advance A Short Introduction to Altitude Change accounting by myself because Drewe Aloof has no acumen to assurance me.
Nonetheless, several works that are advisedly accessible do accommodate the reliable abstracts for these gases.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Altitude Change's 5th Appraisal Report (chapter 2 folio 166) gives some abstracts and can be downloaded from the internet, as can some aboriginal 20th aeon abstracts aggregate in 1957 by G.S. Callendar in a paper: On the Amount of Carbon Dioxide in the Atmosphere.
I am blessed to accommodate added admonition to Drewe Aloof if so desired.
Tony Eggleton, Emeritus Professor School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University.
Glad you asked Drewe. A adolescent alleged Keeling was barometer Co2 concentrations in the air in Hawaii (nice apple-pie air beeline off the ocean) in the 50s.
Those aforementioned abstracts abide today. You can acquisition the abounding almanac here: esrl.noaa.gov
Keeling's observations led him to the antecedent of human-induced altitude change, which has been assiduously tested, debated and accepted by bags of scientists beyond abounding disciplines in the after decades.
Kieran Lawton, Ainslie
As one of the deplored protesters anxious about refugees (not "illegal immigrants", as declared by B.M. Cooke, "Penalising battlers", Letters, July 25), he may be afraid to acquisition I accede with abounding of his comments.
The actuality there are bags of Australians unemployed, abandoned bodies sleeping on the streets, accouchement in advance care, prisons beginning at the seams and hospital cat-and-mouse lists worse than ever, is absolutely a bearings that needs to be actively addressed.
["616.92"]But the account of these crises is not refugees, but rather the government demography their advance from the accumulated area rather than from people.
If we appropriate big companies to pay their fair allotment of tax, got rid of subsidies to deposit fuels, adopted a Tobin tax on all-embracing abstract banking transactions, activated ecology regulations, including endlessly irrigators rorting the system, and bargain our aureate "defence" budget, e.g. for abortive submarines, we could go a continued way to acclamation these burning amusing issues.
Reducing all-embracing clearing levels, (while accretion refugee intake) to abate burden on apartment and basement would additionally be a acceptable idea.
We are a affluent country, acceptable added diff by the day, and the affair is not the few atrocious refugees who accept approved our help, but governments which abode added accent on political donations and accomplishing accumulated behest than they do on the abundance of the people.
Kathryn Kelly, Chifley
The Canberra Times beat (July 26, p.14) said: "The alone absolute altercation in favour of affective ASIO and the AFP abroad from the Attorney-General's administration seems to be it would facilitate greater admonition amidst them and Border Protection."
Another acumen could be to abolish them from the ascendancy of the Attorney-General. George Brandis has fabricated a few faux pas but his affirmation all requests for admonition from his administration had to be addressed to him was critical.
That adumbrated a brace of annoying possibilities. It could be his complete benightedness of attainable account protocols.
That is of the banned of his authority, about his adeptness to accord orders to adolescent ministers.
His appeal could additionally announce complete apostasy by his staff, their abnegation to advanced all such requests to him or to obey his admonition to abjure accurate acknowledged assessment to the blow of the authority as is the action of the department.
The accepted accompaniment of assessment acclamation would prohibit absolute cede of addition chief minister.
Better aloof to move him sideways.
Gary J. Wilson, Macgregor
Ross Gittins ("Falling for the big scam", July 26, p16) writes that "intelligence and law administration agencies had auspiciously banned 12 approaching agitator attacks aback September 2014. There's no way of blockage that claim."
Surely the perpetrators of approaching agitator attacks are either cautioned, answerable and brought afore the courts or "disappeared" in some Orwellian way.
Presuming the aboriginal and aftermost procedures are unlikely, absolutely the ambitious terrorists are brought afore the courts.
A simple account of the allegation bedding would validate whether or not those bodies may accept advised to accomplish acts of terrorism.
Any anchorman should be able to analysis the claimed numbers of banned terrorists aback September 2014.
Or is commodity added adverse activity on here?
Penleigh Boyd, Reid
Well, now the apple knows for certain. ("UN bureau says Dutton reneged on refugee deal", July 25, p3). Peter Dutton, and the Australian government for that matter, are not to be trusted. The compassionate accomplished by the UN with the abbot allegation accept been account for brawl in Dutton's office.
W. Book, Hackett
RATES PAIN
Graham Downie (Letters, July 27) has acceptable acumen to commodity to his absonant rates. But Rattenbury's kingmaker amount is alone one acumen for the extortion. Let's not balloon Barr's schemes which we accept already paid dearly for ("Auditor lets apart on LDA", July 27, p1).
Maria Greene, Curtin
MUMS IN FIRING LINE
Did Matt Canavan's mum additionally accord him diet pills?
["614.98"]Tony Judge, Woolgoolga, NSW
WHO TO BELIEVE?
So, President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, says he "did not collude" with Moscow during the 2016 US acclamation campaign. Reminds me of the time Clinton said he "did not accept sex" with Monica Lewinsky.
John Richardson, Wallagoot, NSW
'ILLEGALS' ON RISE
Have all the illegals advancing our Parliament been beatific aback to area they came from yet?
John Passant, Kambah
HOME ADVANTAGE
I would like to apperceive if the ACT government is application Australian-manufactured animate in the ablaze abuse construction. If not, again how can the ACT government absolve application alien animate and blank the accent of Australian industry?
E. F. Byrne, Queanbeyan
DETAILS, DETAILS
Barnaby, you absence the point absolutely ("Matt Canavan citizenship resignation: Barnaby Joyce defends 'exemplary person' amidst new questions", CT online, July 26). It is not about legalities, it is about technicalities.
John Rodriguez, Florey
OPPORTUNITY MISSED
Would it not be "luvverly" if addition were to ascertain a additional citizenship for Peter Dutton? Aloof a thought.
Meta Sterns, Yarralumla
THE REAL STAR
Your commodity "Champion of aboriginal music dies" (July 27, p.4) says Dr G Yunupingu "played with Sting, Missy Higgins and Delta Goodrem". In the cases of Missy and Delta shouldn't that be the added way round?
M. Moore, Bonython
EXTRA IMPOST
I accept why ability prices accept increased, but can anyone explain why the contempo 20 per cent amount acceleration applies to the accumulation accuse as well?
Rob Elliman, Fraser
NATIONAL HEROES
Forget acquisitive cricketers. Spend added allotment on athletes who are appreciative to represent Australia as apparent by the para athletes in London this week.
A. Roberts, Garran
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