Is it wise for our political leaders and journalists to be so enthusiastically endorsing Trump's reflexive military response to a gas attack that has not yet been investigated?

• APRIL 8

Bernie Fraser's warning of growing inequality, like the shot heard round the world, is the warning that should be heard round Australia.

• APRIL 7

"Quite frankly there are worse people and you simply don't know what you'd get if he were to be replaced," is as chilling a thought as the actual release of chemical weapons against Syrian civilians.

• APRIL 6

Handing the Adani company unlimited water access is intergenerational theft of unprecedented proportions.

• April 4

I'm sure it is 'for political reasons' that the coalition refuses to act on this massive issue.

• NOVEMBER 28

Fidel Castro started his political life as a ruling-class nationalist, opposed to the corrupt US supported/appointed regime of Fulgencio Batista.

• COMMENT

Independent chairs for planning panels must be appointed to ensure proper consultation.

• APRIL 3

While Coalition politicians repeat the mantra that Australia has one of the highest corporate tax rates in the world, Australian "mum and dad" investors are enjoying an effective corporate tax rate of zero, due to dividend imputation. This is obviously the lowest in the world. 

• April 2

Section 18C needs reform because it doesn't work ... Mutual respect is earned, not imposed.

• APRIL 1

In launching chagrined annoyance at her Coalition colleagues who prevented the ratification of a 2007 extradition treaty with China is Julie Bishop still smarting from a previous ticking off by the Chinese Foreign Minister?

• MARCH 30

Entities like the Land and Property Information service are the invisible manifestations of good government: unglamorous, unremembered, generally unappreciated (until they disappear), but nonetheless critical to the successful operation of the state.

• MARCH 31

Why is Berejiklian pushing ahead with the building of new tunnels to substandard dimensions, and conversion of the Bankstown line to cattle-class metro, when cities all over the world are moving to double-deck trains?

• MARCH 29

One has to wonder about the contorted policies and twisted minds controlling Australia's Department of Immigration and Border Control when we read of its lax "control" of the labour-hire companies run by Queensland businessman Emmanuel Bani.

• MARCH 28

If the latest polling figures don't get the message across to Malcolm and his crew that the electors are heartily fed up with adversarial politics then there is little hope for them.

• MAR27

I am appalled to read that our government is selling "military equipment" to Saudi Arabia.

• March 25

Thank you for informing us there are more compassionate options out there.

• MARCH 25

Tony Abbott is advocating the federal government assist the asbestos-riddled Hazelwood power station.

• MARCH 24

Listening with horror and helplessness to the news from London this morning, I realised that when the news shifts to "the current war in?", I switch off.

• MARCH 23

While there may be legal confusion on the proposed Section 18C changes of the Racial Discrimination Act, there is no confusion on its intent in the minds of minorities.

• March 20

So Peter Dutton thinks concerned business leaders are mere puppets in the hands of dastardly lobby groups ("Turnbull government 'won't be bullied' by CEOs on same-sex marriage, says Peter Dutton", smh.com.au, March 19). Heaven forbid that anyone other than a politician should have an opinion.

• MARCH 22

Ron Bird speaks sense on the subject of allowing superannuation to be used to buy a home.

I suggest there are two fathers of rock'n'roll: Chuck Berry and Bill Haley.

• March 20

Proposals to raid superannuation for deposits on home loans is exactly as Keating says; reckless.

• MARCH 17

Chris Danckwerts (Letters, March 16) asks why we need an energy market at all. Answer? We don't – unless a market can be designed that achieves some public good.

• March 19

Let us thank Bethan and Johnny McElwee, who have generously revealed their poignant journey with their daughter Aviana, ("When the new normal is getting ready for your baby's death", March 12). The photographs are so beautiful that they almost distract us from the words describing the disease of muscular spinal atrophy, its effects and prognosis. But this information, however depressing, enables us to understand the constant demands upon these devoted parents. Our thoughts, hopes and prayers go to Bethan and Johnny as they ensure that every precious moment of Aviana's life is filled with love and wonder.

• MARCH 18

Credit is due to Jay Weatherill for giving the federal government a piece of his mind ("Frydenberg, Weatherill slug it out for cameras", March 17)

Forget supercharging the Snowy Hydro scheme, the steam rising off Herald readers contemplating the failures of privatisations past and the folly of privatisations future could drive all the turbines the nation needs to solve its energy crisis.

• MARCH 16

In all the discussions over energy policies at state and federal levels the question that needs to be asked is: why do we need an energy "market" at all?

• MARCH 15

As someone who works in education I found the revelations of the case involving Australian Careers Network appalling.