The Australian Bureau of Statistics and the government have completely misread the mood of the people with their emphasis on punishing people rather than encouraging participation in the census.
Readers are appalled at the potential privacy breach, the nature of the questions on the census and the lack of compatibility with users' computers.
Readers explain why they are cynical about the census and changes to the data collection methodology.
Readers criticise Channel 7 for not showing popular Olympic events in high definition and for switching coverage before races are completed.
Readers continue to debate whether there should be a royal commission into banks.
If the homeless were victims of a natural disaster, governments at all levels would immediately act. But the homeless are victims – of changing economic conditions beyond their control. As a nation we should feel ashamed at our treatment of this group.
Readers discuss the commercial banks' failure to pass on the full interest rate cut to borrowers and whether there needs to be a royal commission into the banking industry.
Readers criticise the testing regime for measuring only a narrow range of skills, while others argue that more money must be invested in the early years, when the foundations for literacy and academic achievement are built.
Readers are concerned that the census won't truly reflect the demographic and cultural makeup of Australia, and that the system will not be able to cope with the demands of millions of people logging on at the same time.
Readers discuss whether allowing universities to enrol as many students as they want has led to a ''degree factory culture''.
Readers express concern about the implementation of the National Disability Insurance Scheme, which could leave vulnerable people open to exploitation. Meanwhile, older, well-educated people feel they are being left on the scrapheap.
Readers have diverse views as to whether the Prime Minister made the right decision not to support Kevin Rudd's bid for the top job at the United Nations.
Trump is tapping into a sense of defeat in the US. His success in the primaries is also evidence of a victory of demagoguery over ideology. Working-class Republicans have struggled with the party's neo-liberal ideology since the growth of the Tea Party movement. For conservative working-class Americans, the ideology caters to their social views but offers them nothing economically, with excessive deregulation and trickle-down economics having failed. Trump has found a cheap way of winning support by appealing to his supporters' visceral social instincts, claiming to protect US workers while espousing both American hegemony and isolationism, and somehow equating Hillary Clinton with the shortcomings of his own party. His angry and rambling acceptance speech is also proof that Trump intends to divide, conquer and rule, something sure to hasten America's demise rather than "make it great again".
Readers discuss former prime minister Tony Abbott's article, ''Nation must learn from terrible victory of WWI''.
Readers react to the appalling treatment of youth in detention in the Northern Territory.
The NT juvenile detention expose is a test of a prime minister's leadership. So far, Mr Turnbull has fallen short. He announced a royal commission, saying he had acted "decisively". In other words, credit to his strong leadership. It's a bit cheap, really, because there was no other decent course of action to take. I haven't heard him use the boys' names, acknowledge that they are just kids or that they are part of the Indigenous other in our nation still emerging from the black deaths in custody scandal. That would be the pathway to empathic healing. Yes, he said it was "shocking" and "appalling", but that doesn't resonate with the collective shame we feel as a nation that we have come to this level of depravity. How did we get to be like this?
Watching ABC's Four Corners I felt like an animal. In her opening, presenter Sarah Ferguson said we could not look away. I wanted to run away.
If homelessness were a sport we'd see some action. Governments are quick off the mark when a football stadium or tennis centre needs a multimillion-dollar boost.
Readers discuss the issues of homelessness and the shortage of affordable housing for the unemployed and people on low incomes.
Readers ponder what constitutes a true Liberal, and what constitutes a real Malcolm Turnbull.
Readers discuss environmental issues, including the gradual transition to renewable energy.
The HILDA report provides the evidence for what most of us recognise intuitively. The wealth, on paper, of Baby Boomers is increasing because they bought houses at a time of relatively stable unemployment and when speculation was not rife. Thus, much of their wealth has been gained through rising land values rather than economic growth.
Readers discuss Pauline Hanson and why One Nation's agenda may appeal to some people.
People such as Pauline Hanson do more to promote terrorism and hatred than any Muslim immigrant, mosque or halal certification.
Readers discuss issues of social inequity, including homelessness, how older workers are treated, and the gap between public and private schools.
Readers discuss the terrorist attack in Nice on Bastille Day.
When Michael Kroger writes that "the Liberal Party's No.1 brand equity is ... being better economic managers than Labor" (News, 10/7), he is actually highlighting the party's major weakness.
Readers have mixed views on China's actions in the South China Sea and also on how Australia should respond.
A reader hoped inanities such as 'we have a mandate' would cease after this election result.
Justice Minister Michael Keenan tried to defame the Labor candidate in the WA seat of Cowan, stating that Anne Aly had written a letter of support for a known terrorist. This statement was untrue and a blatant misrepresentation of the role of Dr Aly, who was acting entirely in line with his own government's policy on national security.
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