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Suella Braverman seems to live up to her name; she is brave, articulate and tells it like it is – unlike the new Lord Cameron, who bailed out as prime minister after misjudging the Brexit vote (“Braverman in withering take-down of ‘weak’ Sunak”, 15/11).

Roseanne Schneider, Toowoomba, Qld

There is one glaring omission in the steps being taken to rein in classroom misbehaviour: the parents. A suite of short videos, perhaps, Preparing Your Child for the School Day would highlight the critical role parents play in this endeavour.

John Lake, Mosman Park, WA

Janet Albrechtsen exposes how we are dumbing down our society and our business world with her comment that “only an equality of outcome will do”. A society that chooses mediocrity over merit or gladhanding over substance is designed to fail. Do we forget Alexis de Tocqueville so quickly?

Alexander Haege, Tamarama, NSW

Full marks to Bunnings for dropping the dangerous engineered stone (“Voters back a ban as Bunnings stop sales of stone benchtops”, 15/11). We all want corporate Australia to have a conscience, particularly when extreme safety issues arise out of products they sell.

Jenny Morison, Forrest, ACT

Couldn’t Chris Bowen add fisheries to his portfolio so we all could enjoy cheap fish as well as “cheap” energy? Of course it, too, may require tweaking with a bit more “firming”. But compared with what he believes he can achieve with electricity, which goes off far quicker than fish, this shouldn’t be a problem.

Gordon Thurlow, Mooloolah Valley, Qld

The AFL heralds its Opening Round as though it is wonderful. There has always been an opening round, this is just a half opening round. It must be a slow AFL new week.

Dennis Fitzgerald, Box Hill, Vic

As usual Janet Albrechtsen succinctly demonstrates that the latest identity fad of stamping out unconscious bias by abolishing merit-based hiring is just another iteration of the emperor’s new clothes.

Paul Everingham, Hamilton, NSW

In the wake of the woke, and when out of earshot, we used to refer to HR as Human Resistance. As Janet Albrechtsen so rightly points out, we are now faced with the prospect of the CEO becoming the chief equality officer and the CIO becoming the chief incompetence officer. We should acknowledge and apply the principle that “you can’t manage what you don’t understand”.

Jim Taylor, Brisbane