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letters November 25, 2023
As Israel continues its relentless bombardment of Gaza and its civilians, the death toll mounts and traumatised, displaced Gazans face the risk of starvation and disease, Penny Wong calls on Israel to exercise restraint and observe international law...
letters November 18, 2023
The word “elite” appears no fewer than 13 times in Rick Morton’s article (“ The age of entitlement ”, November 11-17). Instead of the media giving publicity to private schools by continually referring to them as “elite”, why not tell it like it is:...
letters November 11, 2023
Nothing justifies the sickening brutality of the crimes committed by Hamas. However, no side has clean hands (Jonathan Pearlman, “ No clear end to Israel–Gaza ground invasion ”, November 4-10). Israel has for years severely restricted the movement...
letters November 4, 2023
Your journalists and commentators have nailed different aspects of the fallout from the Voice vote ( October 28–November 3 ). Their ideas mesh well into a positive approach to pulling us from the Peter Dutton-led attack on truth in our democracy...
letters October 28, 2023
Thomas Mayo’s beautiful words of hope in “ After the vote ” (October 21-27) were very moving. I find it hard to understand how he can be so generous and rise above this disappointment to ask the Australian community to open our hearts and minds and...
letters October 21, 2023
Professor Marcia Langton is to be thanked for her untiring work for reconciliation and her informative article (“ Marcia Langton: ‘Whatever the outcome, reconciliation is dead’ ”, October 14–20). As one of those many millions of non-Indigenous...
letters October 14, 2023
Thank you, Polly Hemming, for continuing to expose the Australian government’s Janus face on climate change (“ Meet the climate hustlers ”, October 7-13). As United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has said, the fossil fuel industry is the...
letters October 7, 2023
Rick Morton’s investigation of the “No” campaign (“ Anatomy of a ‘No’: The people voting against the Voice ”, September 30–October 6) highlights that key reasons for so many people drifting towards voting “No” in recent weeks have been the lack of...
letters September 30, 2023
Patrick Dodson’s honest and measured entreaty (“ The Voice is a test of enlightened democracy ”, September 23-29) is a salve to our all-consuming Voice maelstrom, from the story of First Nations soldiers returning from World War I service resaddled...
letters September 23, 2023
In the midst of the astonishing torrent of misinformation and manufactured fear released by the “No” campaign on the Voice, it was wonderful to read the articles by Barry Jones and Paul Bongiorno (“ The Voice is our Brexit moment ”, “ To HAFF and...
letters September 16, 2023
It is distressing to read backbenchers are being gagged if they cannot actively support the “No” campaign (Karen Middleton, “ Liberal ‘Yes’ supporters threatened with losing preselection ”, September 9-15). I had been led to think the Coalition...
