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"Economic rationalism... drove the Commonwealth's Canberra policy away from grandiose construction ethic of creating a monument to Australia's national identity," says letter writer JOHN D PURCELL, of Kambah.
Letter writer COLIN LYONS, of Fadden, says the neglect of the Transport Canberra information office in Alinga Street, Civic, is an example of "incompetent public transport management in Canberra by the government".
"We are more informed and better educated today about... the harmful health impacts of smoke from wood heaters, despite what the wood-heating industry claims," says letter writer DARRYL JOHNSTON, of Tuggeranong.
"The extent of high-rise development in the Woden Town Centre is beyond the pale. Similarly in Belconnen it has gone too far," says letter writer COLIN LYONS, of Weetangera.
The first U.S. president famously wore ill-fitting, painful false teeth. Legend has it they were fashioned out of wood.