Katy Perry said today "love conquers fear and love conquers hate"

• JUN 5

I don't think most Australians give a fig about whether Australia move(s) to the top of the league table ("The luckiest country", June 3-4). Most Australians are more worried about whether they will remain in full-time work, whether their wages are going to remain stagnant, or they will be able to rent a house let alone buy one; whether they can afford the surgery they need; and how far their standard of life is slipping.

• JUNE 4

Isn't it ironic that one of the healthiest choices that customers can make in supermarkets these days seems to be to avoid the "healthy food aisle"? ("Raw facts: just how healthy is the health food aisle?", May 28).

• June 3

Unfortunately for first home buyers, the Premier clearly doesn't survey the Sydney housing market.

After lunching at China Doll in Sydney, Cory Bernardi and his so-called dissatisfied NSW Liberals would be very satisfied.

• June 2

I did not know until this morning that the GPO somehow represented to me the heart of Sydney.

• June 1

The Berejiklian government's change on its clumsy emergency services tax – whoops, "levy" – reveals more of its ongoing incompetence.

• May 31

Barnaby Joyce should be ashamed of himself.

• MAY 30

Last year a good friend of mine had a terminal illness and was rapidly deteriorating in capacity.

• MAY 29

It seems our governments will stop at nothing to pander to the desires of the property industry.

• May 28

Hygge is the real concept of the moment.

• May 27

As a former employee of the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, who was there at the time of the Lindt Cafe siege, I read with interest the bail chapter in the coroner's report.

• MAY 26

It's time to re-evaluate our notions of what constitutes "expert" advice – I hope the police are doing that right now.

• MAY 25

There are two separate prisms through which the Manchester bombing must be viewed.

• MAY 24

The future loss of valuable infrastructure and land due to rising sea-levels is another example of inter-generational theft.

• MAY 23

I am dumbfounded that Dutton can claim asylum seekers are "taking the system for a ride".

• May 22

The Lindt Cafe siege perfectly illustrates the truth of the old saying "A stitch in time saves nine".

Demountables have morphed into cheap alternatives to solid infrastructure and facilities.

• MAY 20

Whatever the true jobs figure may be, once the coal from this giant mine is burnt, the carbon dioxide which is released into the atmosphere will effectively cook the planet, and all the aspirations of the Paris Climate Summit will be lost.

Irritatingly bland or alarmingly self-indulgent, readers could get no satisfaction from the public utterances of our top political leaders this week.

• MAY 19

Although inconvenient to commuters, I feel the bus strike on Thursday was necessary.

• MAY 18

It took a week to figure out that Gonski 2 is just as flawed as Gonski 1?

• MAY 17

Governments are intervening increasingly in our lives, now they want to intervene in our death.

• MAY 16

It is hard to feel sorry for the fruit and vegetable growers complaining about not having enough labour to pick their produce.

To Westpac chairman, Lindsay Maxsted, let me say "Welcome to the real world" (Bank tax will set 'a terrible precedent'..."May 13-14).

• May 14

I was told by an eight-year-old Fidget Spinners are good for fidgeters ("Fidget spinners taking over city", May 7).

• MAY 13

It is not the entity – the bank – which is greedy, it is the people who run the banks.

• MAY 12

There's a reason that Australia's biggest banks are so widely loathed.

• MAY 10

The Australian government is continuing its selective vision of entitlement.