It is more important now than it was before climate claims to build dams

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews is clearly living in the past, back when climate change was called global warming and we were told it would never rain again. He doesn’t seem to realise that the alarmists changed the term to climate change, allowing them to claim the heavy rain that was falling was what they had predicted.

Of course, that would mean dams would be even more important, because they would mitigate flooding during those periods of heavy rain and store water for periods of drought, so maybe Andrews has a selective memory about these things.

Burt Bosma, Surrey Hills, Vic

With farmers across Australia struggling through drought and in desperate need of water to maintain the future existence of their farms, the ridiculous remark from the Victorian Premier was very unhelpful.

Of course, dams don’t make it rain but they provide water and are a vital resource in times of drought. Instead of making stupid comments, Daniel Andrews — like all premiers — should be investing in dams that are desperately needed.

Thomas Carrie, Summer Hill, NSW

Trans stupefaction

According to experienced paediatricians, the frontal lobe of humans, crucial to complex decision-making processes, only reaches maturity by age 25, which hasn’t stopped the Australian Psychological Society advocating for transgender decisions to be left to the discretion of teenagers (“Ignore parents of trans kids, say psychologists”, 2/10).

In his book The Madness of Crowds, Douglas Murray begins his chapter on trans thus: “Every age before this one has performed or permitted acts that to us are morally stupefying”, fully expecting our descendants to say, “what the hell were they thinking?” It’s reminiscent of Jonathon Swift’s words, “Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late”.

Mark Awerbuch, Crafers, SA

Molan must prevail

Sanity prevails with Jim Molan getting the backing of the NSW Right and set return to the Senate (”Molan for Senate after Mundine opts out”, 3/10). He had the highest ever vote for a senator when NSW voters ignored the factions at the election in placing Molan in an unwinnable position.

Voters displayed their disdain and voted for Molan under the line, but the cards were stacked against him. Justice should prevail and the people’s voice will be heard.

Ian Kent, Renmark, SA

Left-handers rise up

In line with Bella d’Abrera’s denunciation of the ludicrous pursuit of identity politics in universities (“Academics spending big in search for racism, 3/10), I was going to suggest that humanities departments focus their good/evil research on the marginalisation of “otherness” by right-handed bigots, of left-handers in our society.

But an internet search revealed that this is already underway. I found theses on “the inner experience of left-handers using descriptive experience sampling”, “the shortcomings of handedness” and “the effects of handedness on completion time during performance of multiple tasks”.

While many of these projects were focused on cognitive patterning, for those prepared to embrace the postmodern glug that is identity-ism, the leap from psychological to socio-cultural construct has proven to be easily made.

Sighing at the silliness of it all, I even began to wonder if we might be on the verge of revolution, whereby I could avenge my primary school trauma of being rapped over the knuckles for writing with the “wrong” hand. Arise, fellow lefties. The universities have decreed that our time has come.

Richard Yaxley, Carina Heights, Qld