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Teal appeal: Independent MPs Allegra Spender, Zali Steggall, Sophie Scamps, Zoe Daniel and Monique Ryan.

Independents have one main priority – their constituents

The teals have consistently shown they consider every policy tabled in parliament on merit, free from party control and influence, a reader writes.

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Opposition Leader Peter Dutton.

This referendum folly is as mad an idea as I have heard in years. Dutton must rule it out

The last thing Australians want is the distraction of yet another ideologically inspired constitutional referendum.

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A whole yellowfin tuna was consumed at Powerhouse Museum’s Christmas celebration.

Powerhouse Museum’s $30,000 seafood feast sticks in the craw

Readers are not impressed by news that the controversial Powerhouse put on a lavish Christmas party for staff and stakeholders.

I agree with your editorial that young people need help negotiate social media’s minefield of misinformation (“Civic’s classes key to health of democracy”, 10 February). Most young adults today get their news from various social media platforms, where algorithms determine a user’s feed. Unless social media users are educated in media literacy and critical thinking, they will not have the skills to decide what is an accurate news source and whether items they are being fed are actually misinformation or propaganda. Much is put upon the school curriculum to educate young people in today’s world and for the future, but media literacy and critical thinking are surely a high priority, perhaps for both teachers and students. Levane Abdoolcader, Padstow Heights

Civics lessons will help our youth survive a minefield of misinformation

Younger Australians need help to negotiate social media’s rising torrent of lies, writes a reader.

PM Anthony Albanese

Brandis’ reminder of previous pathetic governments

George Brandis had the gall to denounce Whitlam’s cabinet as “old dinosaurs and clueless eccentrics” but what of those who hid behind Scott Morrison, a reader writes.

Is Albo destined to be a one-term PM?

What is the legacy of the first (and perhaps only) term of the Albanese government? The loss of the Voice seems to have frozen his appetite for reform.

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John Howard (centre) understood the need for a Liberal “broad church”. Departing, departed and sidelined liberals of the party: Simon Birmingham and Paul Fletcher (left); Julie Bishop, Christopher Pyne and Julian Leeser.

Liberals’ ‘broad church’ has become a pervasive sect

Behind the Liberal banner, reasonableness has been steadily squeezed out and, with supreme irony, the breadth of its ranks has been shrivelled to exclude moderation, pragmatism, compromise and tolerance.

Paul Fletcher MP

If the Libs offered more pros, there might be no ‘con job’

I voted for Nicolette Boele in the last federal election not because Paul Fletcher was part of one of the worst governments ever inflicted upon this country, but apparently because I am such a stupid woman I had no idea what I was doing.

NSW Premier Chris Minns.

Banning protests because they cost money to police is a bridge too far in a liberal democracy

The Premier Chris Minns wants to stop pro-Palestinian protests by giving police extra powers to obtain court approval to halt marches to protect their budgets.

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Australian Israeli Geoffrey “Danny” Majzner in front of his sister Galit Carbone’s home where she was killed by Hamas during the October 7 attack.

Moving pictures tell heartbreaking story

One day, across a field pockmarked with bomb craters, two parties might walk towards each other in tears and embrace, remembering all those lost on both sides in a stupid, pointless, unwinnable war. I wait for that day.

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