• January 8

It should have been Malcolm Turnbull to form a new, enlightened and progressive "coalition" of like minds.

• February 7

Another politician voted in as the candidate for one party leaves to join another or set up their own party or become an independent. This is not right. It is an abuse of the electoral system and the voters.

• FEB06

Donald Trump is correct to describe the deal done between a politically expedient Australian prime minister and an outgoing American president who did not have to concern himself with political consequences as a "dumb deal".

In light of Donald Trump's fiery phone call with Malcolm Turnbull, we have received an unprecedented number of letters from Americans apologising for their president.

• FEBRUARY 4

As a citizen of the United States, I apologise for the nature of the telephone call from our president, but that would become a full time job.

In a week in which President Trump gave Australia a stark demonstration he isn't going to play by the rules, it seems apt that we reconsider one of our conventions.

It’s not that easy to get a letter published in the Herald, but things could be worse.

• FEBRUARY 3

ould we please stop falling for the term "clean coal" ?

• FEBRUARY 2

If Malcolm Turnbull is to govern for all Australians, climate change must be at the top of his list of objectives.

• February 1

Our Prime Minister's failure to condemn Donald Trump's new immigration laws is indeed pathetic but if it allows just one family to escape the gulags we have created on Manus Island and Nauru it will have been worth it.

• JANUARY 31

Malcolm Turnbull turns to water as soon as a matter of actual substance comes to the fore.

• JAN30

Regardless of which issues Gladys Berejiklian chooses to champion now that she is Premier, ("Early tests for Premier as byelections loom", January 28-29) it is important to remember that she is still a member of the same political party as the former Premier, was a minister in that Premier's government, and will still be subject to the same party faction, lobbyists and developer pressures.

• JANUARY 29

No wonder young families are having trouble buying a home of any kind in Sydney when real estate agents are actively wooing overseas Chinese property buyers.

• JANUARY 28

The Greens are looking very much like the Democrats under Meg Lees.

• JANUARY 27

I wish you luck, Ian Macfarlane, battling for me and millions of other Australians of Anglo-Celtic ancestry against the likes of Barnaby Joyce.

• JANUARY 26

Barnaby Joyce shows, yet again, how out of touch he and the Liberal Party are with reality.

Mark Porter: Thank you for the publication of my sesquicentenary letter.

• JANUARY 21

As a recently retired public school teacher and Deputy Principal, I'm surprised that my first letter to the editor in forty years of readership should be in defence of a Liberal politician, Mike Baird. The majority of comments (Letters, January 20) contained the generosity of spirit of a Donald Trump tweet.

• JANUARY 25

The stark contrasting of Donald Trump's juvenile twittering and the measured intelligence of Xi Jinping has serious implications for our own foreign and trade relationships.

• JANUARY 24

Exponential population growth brings exponential growth in the complexity and difficulty of governing.

• JANUARY 23

Trump's inauguration is set to redefine America's role from that of a global player in the promotion of democratic values to a nation ideologically obsessed with its own self-preservation.

• JANUARY 22

After spending so much taxpayers' money on weekend trips with his wife to Broome, I hope Mr Cormann at least had the decency to pay for his own cigars.

• JANUARY 20

It's a shame Premier Mike Baird won't be around for an election to find out what the people of his electorate, Manly, and throughout NSW think of his achievements.

• LETTERS

Letter writers respond to Premier Mike Baird's surprise retirement this morning. Many were critical but some made tributes to the man who left, citing family reasons.

• JANUARY 19

Julie Morgan's reasons for opposing voluntary euthanasia do not withstand scrutiny.

• JANUARY 18

When you've all finished arguing about euthanasia ... could you all volunteer some time to help out those who, despite similarly "undignified" lives "not worth living", most certainly do not want to die?

• JANUARY 17

With the strong possibility now of a debate on voluntary euthanasia in the NSW Parliament, I suggest an advocacy group called "Equal Rights for Humans" be formed to air their views to members of Parliament ("NSW to debate law on voluntary euthanasia", January 16).

• JANUARY 16

Congratulations, Prime Minister. You have taken a stand and shown leadership to over the rorts of all parliamentarians.

• January 15

It seems that human kindness, empathy, respect, tolerance and compassion are only deemed important to a minority of the population.