Letters to the Editor

  • Not just Robodebt

    It is not just wrongful decisions by DHS and DSS which have had a major impact on people’s lives, but also cruelly poor administration by what is now Home Affairs.

  • Nuclear subs deal sunk

    Submarines are not required, not wanted

  • WHOSE FAULT IS IT

    Where does the responsibility fall? The former LNP gov. I suggest. Bad Timetable changes. Wrong Sized Trains from Spain. Failure to maintain manufacturing at Newcastle. Underfunding maintenance with a reliance on outside contractors. Labour has been in Gov since may. If this was May 2026 the situation would be very different.

  • Six hundred years of reform?

    Catholics are missing the point when talking about the failure of the Catholic Church. If it has failed and is irrelevant - get rid of it.

  • Confusing the evidence

    Advocates for both sides in the school funding debate need to check their evidence.

  • Julian Cribb and Saul Griffith must be heard

    Two prominent Australian writers have very recently highlighted the critical urgency of action to preserve our human future. Science writer, Julian Cribb put it succinctly in “Pearls and Irritations” this week. “While much of humanity was glued to the unfolding drama over one tiny submarine, the Earth we all inhabit, is slowly, steadily and impeccably imploding around us.”The evidence shows that humanity is heading towards collapse of our civilization, that could be avoided if we were not largely ignoring a series of remediable interconnected catastrophic threats of our own making.

  • There is a plan for human survival

    There is a plan for human survival, it is just being ignored.

  • Retired US Admiral confirms Australian subservience

    A retired US Admiral's chilling account of Australia's subservience to the US military.

  • Ordering women into silence

    I feel more than a shiver of apprehension over the Bruce Lehrmann case, I feel outraged, bruised and ultimately shamed for not joining with other women feeling the same way. I've been a rape survivor, worked for women in rape crisis centres and helped women to find safe refuge away from their violators. Every time this happens to a woman and the court system shames and humiliates her, it brings back how powerless I was made and how it returns more than 50 years later.

  • China – Is it Really a Threat

    I would like to endorse Michael Keatings Assessment (P&I June 15, 2023) that China has overtaken the United States as the world’s largest economy. PPP or Purchasing Power Parity is indeed the measure used by international organizations including the World Bank.

  • Wen Wei Po NOT an anti Beijing newspaper

    Wen Wei Po was a pro-Beijing newspaper. It has always been

  • Relations with China

    Mike Lyons is bang on the money. Both Labor and the LNP seem unable to articulate even a half-sensible approach to China.

  • An Answer to Neoliberalism

    Cooperating for a Better World

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