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In the days of the Roman Empire, to stand up in public to espouse your Christianity was most likely to result in a trip to the Colosseum for a brief meeting with a couple of hungry lions for the entertainment of the masses. The Israel Folau case indicates that little has changed in today’s “progressives” empire.

Wilson Tuckey, Ascot, WA

I have much more respect for Israel Folau than Rugby Australia. Folau was expressing his genuine views on a subject of importance to him. That is his right in a democracy. If it can’t accept that, then perhaps RA should call it a day.

Gavan Duffy, Edens Landing, Qld

Censorship and termination for mentioning hell and salvation is futile and churlish. These issues are as old as the hills and anyone who thinks they can suppress them is as naive as the communist censors of past century.

Tony Sasse, Kew, Vic

I, too, am offended by Israel Folau’s recent comment on social media. I may not be gay but certainly fall into some of the other categories of the hell-bound.

Pat McErlean, Hermit Park, Qld

Why is the Prime Minister spending so much time claiming the Labor Party can’t manage money? Isn’t the Liberal Party broke? Didn’t the last PM have to donate $1.7 million? If you can’t manage your own party, how can you manage the economy?

Raj Krishnan, Bondi, NSW

Barnaby Joyce describes clearly how Labor proposes to confiscate tax refunds for low-income shareholders (“Beware the red dawn “, 12/4). It is ironic that Labor’s cynical cancer-care campaign proposes to divert this money, confiscated from self-funded retirees on modest incomes, to boost payments to medics who are already enjoying high annual incomes.

Ian Bernadt, Swanbourne, WA

Julian Assange’s first incursion into the world of leaked information was to expose US war crimes in Iraq. It’s generally conceded that the war in Iraq, supported by US president George W. Bush, British PM Tony Blair and Australian PM John Howard was a catastrophe for the Iraqi people. Blair paid for it with his career, Howard paid for it by becoming only the second sitting PM to lose his seat at an election. If Assange’s leaks had anything to do with ending the Iraq war, he deserves our gratitude, not our scorn.

Brian Sanaghan, West Preston, Vic

Black holes are weirder than science fiction (“Humanity gets first glimpse of one-way door out of the universe”, 12/4). When I was at school, light was photons, and photons have no mass. But an object with no mass cannot be affected by gravity. So how come black holes can affect photons?

Edwin Grimshaw, Sunrise Beach, Qld