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Poor Laura Tingle, suffering from “a terrible chill on hearing Peter Dutton’s budget speech”, then experiencing an odd mental/optical aberration, having a “sudden flash of people turning up to try and rent a property” because of his policies. On hearing her words we felt a pain, emanating from a pain in the neck.

Anne Willett, Surrey Hills, Vic

Speak for yourself, Laura Tingle. I am Australian, Australia is my country, and I am not racist.

Tony Brownlee, Narellan, NSW

Why is Laura Tingle allowed to use the national broadcaster, the ABC, as a platform to espouse her political views, which are more attuned to pronouncements out of the politburo rather than those of a supposedly balanced taxpayer-funded public broadcaster?

John Kostanic, Applecross, WA

So the left-wing uni students don’t have a problem with Chinese national students attending our universities – nor do I. They do, though, have a problem with Australian citizens of Jewish culture attending our universities.

Murray Horne, Cressy, Vic

Much as I believe that we can only benefit from international student graduates staying here, in most cases they return to their homeland. These leavers are replaced by the next cohort of arriving students. How does this affect our housing crisis?

Tim Doe, Bellerive, Tas

Anti-Semitism has no place in Australia, whether it targets Jews or Arabs, who are all Semitic people. And “Israel, right or wrong” isn’t on, either.

Margaret Furness, Strathalbyn, SA

The bleating about moral equivalence in Gaza pales into insignificance when comparing the paltry $2.5m initial aid deal offered to the Papua New Guinean government, against the more than $1bn sent to Ukraine.

Rob Park, Surrey Hills, Vic

It’s such a shame that the CSIRO that we used to rate so highly has become tainted by politics, as so well described in Judith Sloan’s commentary (“CSIRO’s flawed nuclear report is riddled with errors”, 28/5).

Bill Horn, Blairgowrie, Vic

We see where the Greens may have derived their name: nothing to do with the environment, everything to do with the politics of green envy.

Paul Prociv, Mount Mellum, Qld

If Direction 99 is telling the Administrative Appeals Tribunal to go easy on criminals, I wonder what the other 98 are telling them?

Paul Ginman, Cremorne, NSW