Repetitively enacting the same solutions for longstanding problems and getting similarly disappointing results is very dumb human behaviour and is even worse public policy. At the Central Coast on the […]
Read MoreWaging the good fight against rising hatred
The issues raised in one of the best editorials of the year are certainly timely and focus on a central conundrum for editors worldwide. There is a hypothetical risk that […]
Read MoreTeaching respect
If children are not taught to respect their parents, school teachers, bus drivers or police, it will never become instinctive when they mature and are surrounded with a myriad of […]
Read MoreWhen former leader talks we should listen 2024-12-29
As PM during the Lindt Cafe crisis and his personal involvement with the Rural Fire Service, few leaders could possibly hold a candle to Tony Abbott when he prognosticates on […]
Read MoreA cheerful dose of common sense
In wishing fellow letter writers, Telegraph staff and readers a Happy New Year, I’m appreciative of the kind acknowledgments of writer GPB (DT, 12/12) when he extolled the mission statement […]
Read MoreMisplaced rhetoric
James O’Doherty is to be applauded for insightfully adding commonsense to our interpretation of the behaviour of Police Minister Yasmin Catley after recent shootings on our beleaguered Sydney streets (Minister […]
Read MoreUN send off cheered
News that Premier Dominic Perrottet has refused access to NSW’s prisons to the highly politicised UN must be applauded. (UN prison inspectors jet out in a big huff, 24/10). If […]
Read MoreTexting drivers be warned
With the recent introduction of mobile phone detection cameras across NSW, the sentencing of Lisa Mottram to jail for four years is another big warning to everyone, especially our technologically […]
Read MoreNo warnings
Drivers using mobile phones will be in trouble soon as the anonymously located cameras start snapping. (TXT cams turned on in weeks, 10/11). I oppose the argument that drivers should […]
Read MoreSign of the wrong road strategies
Carl Scully correctly argues that speed cameras are located in road death traps. (“Speed trap trick”, 5/11). In other words, from previous experience, all signage is telling us that “this […]
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