Letters & Editorial

The audit report confirms what has long been obvious: the Australian National University’s catastrophic restructure was neither necessary nor prudent. It was decided on by a council with limited insight and only arbitrary financial details. When it was clear it was failing, no changes were made.

People who worked with Paul Brereton at the National Anti-Corruption Commission say he suffered from the baggage of being a judge. He could never step down from the remove of the bench.

How can it be that a woman goes into a strange house and her body is later found dumped in a fridge and no one is prosecuted for her murder? Her name was Isla Bell. She was 19. This week, she was remembered by her family as a gem, an exquisitely beautiful soul. She walked everywhere with an open heart.

It is an assumption of the Westminster tradition that good government requires good opposition. It is something like Newton’s third law of motion, the stability depending on the equalness of corresponding forces.