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Class system rewards predatory behaviour
Current housing policies are entrenching poverty and inequality.
Current housing policies are entrenching poverty and inequality.
Readers put forward their choices for questions on the new citizenship test.
Readers discuss the PM's 'citizenship shake-up', including the 'Australian values' test.
Readers discussed the government's proposed changes to the controversial 457 visa program.
A reader suggests a worthy substitute to spending millions on chocolate Easter eggs.
Readers air their grievances about various Coalition policies.
Readers are annoyed at the AFL muscling in on the Good Friday Appeal for the children's hospital.
A reader wonders when the government is going to start looking after the interests of locals.
Readers continue to express outrage at both major parties' support for the mine.
Readers discuss the situation in Syria, and the terrible sufferings of the Syrian people.
Readers think Port of Melbourne's new owner should pay for the roads and rail lines it wants.
Readers lament the unexpected death of much loved satirist and comic legend, John Clarke.
A reader describes the call for regime change as insanity.
Readers debate whether the US bombing will help in negotiating an end to the Syrian war.
Each passing decade since the middle of the 20th century has seen increasing complexity in society, the economy, the environment and in global relationships. As with most changes over time and on this scale, new industries and professions rise and others fail to evolve and are left behind. The evidence seems clear that politicians are in the latter category: an increasingly less diverse group of career politicians unaware of or incapable of adapting to progress and who lack the skills to identify, communicate and tackle the challenges facing the nation and the world.
Readers continue to attack the government over its support for the Adani coal mine.
Readers discuss effect of negative gearing and CGT discount on residential property prices.
Readers discuss taxation, including the recent change to the company tax rate and the 'blitz' on tax dodgers.
Readers discuss whether Ayaan Hirsi Ali should have visited Australia.
Readers describe the cash splash as being a triumph of ideology over effective policy.
Readers ponder the direction of society.
It is timely to reassess just what has been achieved by the rush to transfer government assets into private hands.
Readers discuss the controversial hairstyle ban, now overturned, by Bentleigh Secondary College.
Readers have rejected claims people expect aid expenditure to benefit their own country.
Readers spare a thought for the less fortunate citizens.
Readers question the need for changes to Section 18C.
Redevelopment plans destroy market's unique character.
Readers discuss how difficult it is for first home buyers to get a foot in the property market. They are particularly concerned about the effect of negative gearing and the number of foreign buyers.
Readers react in the aftermath of the London terror attack and to Pauline Hanson's anti-Muslim comments.
Readers discuss the terrible attack in London, including the media coverage of it.
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