Letters
Flame trees’ fiery warning for tinderbox Aussie bush
The wildfires ravaging Los Angeles hold important lessons for Australia which, like California, has large forests of highly flammable (introduced) eucalypt trees, which are nicknamed “gasoline trees” in the US.
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Fixing hospitals should take priority over fast rail
Living on the Central Coast, I am all for the construction of a high-speed rail link to Sydney. Currently it takes approximately the same time (1.5 hours) to drive from Gosford to the CBD on an increasingly crowded M1 as a train service that is frustratingly slow in sections.
The bank of nan and pop has undermined the fair go
Jordan Baker’s article about the growing ubiquity of the bank of nan and pop in the payment of school fees should make us very concerned about the direction our society has decided to follow.
Where’s the good in Riverwood? Get a heart!
With the number of homeless aged people on the rise, how heartwarming it would have been if the residents of Hardwicke Street had put out the welcome mat.
We need to exercise common sense before trundling off to a GP
A substantial number of patients who see a GP are suffering a minor ailment or illness that resolves on its own.
Coalition haunted by its anti-Medicare history
Liberal spokesperson Anne Ruston claims that “the Coalition always has, and always will, invest in Medicare”. Well, except when under Malcolm Fraser they demolished Medibank and opposed any changes to the ramshackle health scheme we had.
Dutton must face coal, hard facts. Nuclear will not work
The owners of our coal-fired power plants have pointed to the biggest single flaw in Peter Dutton’s nuclear plan: those plants will all be gone before the first reactor can make an appearance, and long before the last is up and running.
Value the independent voices in parliament
Andrew Wilkie regrets signing a deal with Julia Gillard when she didn’t follow through with gambling reform and says the independents would be well advised to stay independent.
Legal action to deny school change is abuse of privilege
I am really shocked that anyone would bother trying to sue a school for going co-ed. What is wrong with people that they feel they have to protect exclusiveness and the exclusion of girls?
No shame in compliance culture
The famous Australian mateship concept and the notion of a fair go are demonstrated and reciprocated by our compliance culture. If more countries embraced these quaint practices, I’m sure the world would be a better place.
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