Max Flint News Today

"Light rail has been from the outset and remains a financial disgrace!" thunders letter writer MAX FLINT, co-ordinator of  Smart Canberra Transport

Letter writer RIC HINGEE says that being "woke" is not necessarily constructive or productive, especially when it comes to buying fire engines!

Discussions with shoppers and local residents suggest there is a very low level of awareness about plans by Woolworths to buy an ACT government-owned, open-air car park at Hawker shops, says letter writer KARINA MORRIS. 

Letter writer JOHN MURRAY is disgusted at the ACT government for chasing fines from families who were paying their respects for those who served in Vietnam.

In our final post of letters debating the issue of the Voice, DAVID JENKINS, of Casey, asks why shouldn’t we recognise the long indigenous history of places, "particularly when so many are currently named after absentee imperial overlords".

Letter writers PHILLIP and BETH HARRIS moved to Goulburn because "under the Gallagher and then the Barr governments, we have seen health, education, city maintenance and public housing funding continually pillaged to fund the tram".

Reader ANN KENT, of Forrest, writes to say the ACT government is "treating City Hill as just another piece of real estate" and RON EDGECOMBE, of Evatt, bemoans a multi-storey development that "totally ignores" the surrounding streetscape. 

Letter writer MAX FLINT reminds us of the MOU between the ACT government and Unions ACT that provides for all tenders being let by the government to be reviewed by Unions ACT and, by association other unions, such as the CFMEU.

Using interest rates to control inflation is unfair as the burden falls disproportionately on the households with mortgages, especially those who have bought in the last few years, writes reader MIKE QUIRK, of Garran.

Letter writer ANDREW SNOWDON, of Wamboin, says: "It's time to remember what roads are actually for, and do something to improve flows, not hamper them."