Letters to the Editor
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Australia’s climate action should be acknowledged
Thanks Julian Cribb for alerting readers to the 2024 State of the Climate Report.
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The Thorn and the Carnation may hold the clue
The PM has described Yahya al-Sinwar as a terrorist, rather than a freedom fighter.
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Global climate disaster, COP and Cribb’s solutions
"We are on the brink of an irreversible climate disaster", (William Ripple et al, 2024 State of the Climate Report). But our federal government continues to approve new coal projects.
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The storm of climate chaos
The article, "In the Eye of the Hurricane" (19/10/24), captures the dire reality of our climate crisis with chilling accuracy
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Sinwar
Only by looking on the Al Jazeera website did I learn that Yahya Sinwar was born in a refugee camp in Gaza.
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Sovereignty
Duggan's case is an outrage exposed only by Collaery and P&I.
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Another perspective on end-of-life
I appreciated recent articles by Ian Chubb and Ken Hillman on end-of-life issues.
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It’s the little things ….
Why is it the little things that pull you up short?
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The Referendum 12 Months On
The Referendum 12 months on may as well be lightyears away.
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Shame indeed!
Thank you Margaret Reynolds, Alison Broinowski and others for writing what desperately needs to be said to the United Nations and to the world as a whole.
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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.
