CHRISTOPHER RYAN says the ACT government lacks fundamental connections with the community…
LETTER writer Sue Dyer (CN May 20) is absolutely correct about the ACT government’s lack of public toilet facilities.
A government run by people with no children, not out and about using public transport with them, or older parents, is lacking one of the fundamental connections with the community.
I add that the government cannot properly maintain the existing toilet facilities – soap and water are beyond its ability.
The government cannot learn because of its limited (or no) life experience of the fundamental older and younger human needs.
Another world… inside the Environment, Planning and Sustainable Development Directorate’s new Northbourne Avenue offices at Dickson.
“The archaic bureaucracy collective that forms the planning directorate is overdue to be broken up for the sake of Canberra’s lifestyle and the city’s contribution to the future of the planet,” writes “Canberra Matters” columnist
PAUL COSTIGAN.
THE ACT Government’s planning directorate has an impenetrable structure that reminds me of the “Star Trek” concept – the Borg Hive – called The Collective.
Paul Costigan.
Anyone who is assimilated into this collective is transformed from being a thinking individual to being a drone – they no longer speak plain English, instead they mutter the spin of the day.
“Our family’s experience of the interaction between the mental health and the justice systems for our family member was as traumatic as the incident that led to them being held in custody,” says our lead letter this week.
WE write to echo concerns of racism in the Alexander Maconochie Centre prison expressed in Jon Stanhope’s column “The shameful politicians who don’t give a stuff” (CN March 4).
As Canberrans, we struggle to get a voice to be heard, but how do we alarm those who put this in the “way-too-hard basket”?
The case Mr Stanhope outlined was not an isolated incident of strip searching a female detainee in view of male detainees.