Letters
Modern Labor is losing the battle of ideas
Whatever their faults, former PMs Turnbull, Abbott and Keating were all driven to change things.
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Big pharma’s ill will
Trump’s move on the PBS has shown that the US alliance is over. We are now on our own.
Three cheers for Reaganomics in a sea of tariff storms
Ronald Reagan said that “trade strengthens the free world”, in 1988. Trump needs to heed that advice.
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Cometh the election hour, cometh the teals
While Labor and the Coalition are busy mud-slinging and one-upping each other, independent candidates and their volunteers are hard at work on the doorstep.
Dutton plan: Free lunches, cuts to services
Stand by for the whole gamut of Trump’s MAGA suite of anti-government moves, which would make our lives more difficult.
Liberals using ratepayers’ pain for political gain
The NSW Liberal Party is stating that if they had not made a mess of nominating Liberal Party candidates in the last local government elections on the northern beaches, the proposed 40 per cent rate rise would not be happening.
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.
Trump’s war on efforts to slow climate change futile
By doubling down on his cry to “drill, baby, drill” and removing all limits on America’s booming fossil fuel industry, the new president has once again declared war on the world’s climate mitigation efforts. But this is a war he can’t win.
Rail strike adds to the argument for driverless trains
Jennifer Giles was always mystified as to why Sydney would duplicate a perfectly good Bankstown rail line with a driverless metro line. Not any more
Back to (or building) the future?
It is both ironic and appropriate that Peter Dutton has chosen to copy the New Zealand Nationals’ election slogan of “Back on track”.
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