Letters to the Editor
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Are we mature enough to hear?
In 1968 Professor Stanner lamented the 'cult of forgetfulness’ dominating the Australian attitude to the indigenous peoples of this land. The 2023 Referendum has been the latest instance of such forgetfulness.
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Get the baseball bats out
If I may paraphrase the late Wayne Goss, it should come as no surprise that the Queensland electorate will be sitting on their verandas wielding baseball bats come the evening of 26/10/2024.
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Are we inching inexorably towards WWIII?
I am still in shock from the picture of dead children in Southwest Palestine.
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The right or otherwise of Israel to defend itself
Is the current government in historic Palestine a legitimate government?
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Is China our biggest threat?
If Australia is to be afraid of another nation, it's biggest threat is the US dragging us into a war that no one needs.
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Abandon sovereignty!
Regular readers of P&I basically know the details and agree with the argument of Vince Scappatura's article "Australia’s evolving nuclear posture: avoiding a fait accompli (Part 1 of 2)"
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Comfortable middle classes must do more
Do the dire predictions of a heated world outlined by David Spratt make any impact on governments?
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“Is there an honest Australian news source”?
I had entirely given up on Australian newspapers, television, and radio and in recent times (for the last year) have only listened to, read, or watched Al Jazeera.
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Thoughts and prayers
Today, on Oct. 7, there is no context. Not what happened on 6th October 2023 or all the days back to the Nakba and back, back to Theodor Herzl.
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Why I grieve for our grandchildren’s futures
With environmental policy driven primarily by the fossil fuel industry, we are heading for climate disaster.
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Ignorance trumps racism – mostly.
“Is it racism that guides these politicians?” Ali Kazak asks. That seems to be true of Peter Dutton and his fellow travellers.
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ABC – disgraceful partisanship
Lebanese and Palestinian lives mean nothing to our national broadcaster.
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‘Provocation’
A year ago, Peter Dutton described the Hamas attack on Israel ‘unprovoked’. I assume he has had now had sufficient time to learn about international relations, human nature and Palestine’s sad, painful history that he would avoid using such an inappropriate descriptor again.
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RESPONSE TO KELTY ON THE ALP
I wouldn't be holding Kelty, one of the architects of the Accord, up as a model of how a Labor pollie or unionist should be.
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“How high should we jump?” – Canberra
Our Foreign Affairs Minister, instead of calling in the Israeli ambassador to protest at the harrying, and forced displacement from their homes, of thousands of Australian citizens in Lebanon, can only seemingly manage to say: “get on a plane”.
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We must get serious about climate change action
Bill Kelty writes, “We need a Labor Party agenda in which the big issues are confronted.” He points to the environment, climate change and indigenous rights as examples.
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David McBride and the AMC
The fact that Australian Army war crimes whistleblower David McBride has been granted a chance to appeal against his five years and eight months sentence at the dreadful Alexander Maconochie Centre federal prison in Canberra is long overdue.
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How to survive on an isolated planet
We inhabit an isolated planet with finite resources and a robust, but not indestructible, environment. The fact that our environment continues to support life today does not mean that it always will.
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Universities as a place of higher learning? YES
As a 72 year old retired I like to think successful Tradie I have had a front row seat of the mess that is our education system has become.
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“Merely academic”
Our gad-fly, "Clover Leaf" group, had gained audience with the Vice-Chancellor and President of Monash Inc.
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The mask is off
Susan Dirgham brings together a number of opinions very well.
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Advanced Care Directives and Living Wills
As an old Intensive Care Nurse of at least 20 years I agree with Ken, but I encourage all people approaching older age to take advantage of their ability to autonomously express their wishes for their end of life care.
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The Albanese Enigma
Anthony Albanese won his party leadership not as the victor of an open, contested party election, but through backroom negotiations. He brought to the leadership no sense of being the champion who had best fought for Labor values and won the party’s affection.
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It’s all in the wording
"Why shouldn't we support Hamas?" This is exactly what needs to be asked.
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The Zionist Lobby Marches Onwards
‘… the uglier truth is that in Australia the Israel lobby doesn’t need to work very hard to secure its political objectives. For the most part, they are pushing at an open door. ‘
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AMC Canberra
"The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.”
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‘David McBride and the Alexander Maconochie Prison in Canberra’ should be distributed far and wide
Prof Ross Fitzgerald's October 1 exposé David McBride and the Alexander Maconochie Prison in Canberra should be distributed far and wide.
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Retributive justice is no justice
The Media's lack of interest in the very real plight of a man whose primary crime is taking action in the public interest (regardless of what the government exclaims) says much about modern Australian society.
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David McBride and the Alexander Maconochie Centre
Prof Fitzgerald's disturbing revelations about conditions endured by military whistleblower, David McBride & other inmates at the AMC in Canberra ought be taken seriously by governmental authorities and by the Australian media.
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A pathetic picture of Australian justice
I am writing in response to Ross Fitzgerald's piece regarding the appalling conditions in the Alexander Maconochie centre and the mistreatment of David McBride.
