John Cotterill News Today

Yet another miserable mark for mismanagement by former multi-minister Scott Morrison, approving the upgrade of the Australian War Memorial before an expensive business case was available

Two-way tolling on the Sydney Harbour Bridge may help spread the burden but the pylons have shifted.

Economically, practically and politically, nuclear just does not stack up for Australia with its clear blue skies and plentiful winds.

Whether it is Scottish castle libraries, plunge pools, executive trips to Henley regattas or the latest comparison between the obscene amount of money spent by a few private schools on capital works and entire state school funding, it is clear that the current funding model is failing students.

What a convoluted and outlandish manoeuvre Peter Dutton is employing in attempting to convince voters that Anthony Albanese’s reform of the tax legislation is a betrayal.

The problem in the apartment building industry is the number of developers and builders who have moved up from small-scale house projects to multistorey apartments.

The attack on heritage is in effect the same land grab on older inner-city areas that developers ran in the late 60s and early 70s, a campaign all about developer profits and not about affordability of housing or good urban planning.

The government could use the precedent established by the Howard government in 2000. In that year, the Howard government made public, in advance of the then 30-year rule, historical records on Australia and East Timor between 1974 and 1976.

Convincing an electorate to host a nuclear reactor or its generational waste would make for a challenging electioneering position.

Education is not a competition, readers told the Herald, and the focus on HSC results fails to identify the many benefits of education.