• JULY 06

Readers criticise often 'sanctioned' violence in football games and call on AFL to stamp it out.

• JULY 5 WEDNESDAY

I was horrified to think that Australians believe the misery of people starving in Africa is somehow self-inflicted ('Ugly Australian attitudes to African crisis revealed', The Age, 4/7). It disgusts me. 

• JULY 4 TUESDAY

The latest census data showing 146,600 people arriving in Victoria in 2016, is yet another alarm bell that our infrastructure is going to be totally overwhelmed. Should this trend continue, Melbourne may have a massive population of 10 million by mid-century.

• JULY 3 MONDAY

Readers are frustrated and angry at the public pronouncements by former prime minister Tony Abbott.

• JULY 02

Our readers comment on Tony Abbott's current political behaviour and its implications for the LNP.

• JULY 01

Readers discuss the positives and negatives of our healthcare system and the importance of funding medical research.

• JUNE 30

Readers discuss the factions in our political parties, particularly the Coalition, and what it really means to be 'left', 'right' or 'centrist'.

• JUNE 29

Readers discuss the difficulty of learning another language and the best ways to teach it.

• JUNE 28, WEDNESDAY

Readers discuss the best way to resolve the same-sex marriage impasse.

• JUNE 27 TUESDAY

Readers continue to respond to the Fairfax investigation into aged care.

Readers respond from across the spectrum on the value of retirement villages, and the citizenship test.

Readers discuss the government's plans to change the English component of the citizenship test.

• JUNE 24

Readers continue to discuss Pauline Hanson's comment about students with disabilities in schools.

• JUNE 23

Readers discuss Pauline Hanson's controversial suggestion that children with autism should be removed from mainstream classes.

• JUNE 22

Readers discuss Gonski 2.0 school funding and the government's battle to get it through the Senate.

• JUNE 21, WEDNESDAY

School funding involves billions of dollars of public money. What the current proposal fails to acknowledge  is that being sector-blind Gonski 2.0 fails to notice the typical cost differences between the sectors.

• JUNE 20, TUESDAY

Readers discuss the urgent political need to address the failings of our electricity system.

• JUNE 19, MONDAY

Readers take differing stances on the comments from ABC morning radio presenter Red Symons.

• JUNE 18

Readers discuss the possibility of China's influence in Australia.

• JUNE 17

Readers discuss the terrible fire at a high-rise in London, including why it happened and what we can do to prevent a similar tragedy occuring here.

• JUNE 16

Readers discuss the decision to pay $70m in compensation to asylum seekers on Manus Island.

• JUNE 15

Readers discuss a range of environmental issues, including the Adani mine, wind and wave tidal power, and coal.

• MAY 14

Readers rail against Immigration Minister Peter Dutton's proposal to amend the Citizenship Act to allow him power to overrule decisions by the Administrative Appeals Tribunal.

• JUNE 13

Readers have mixed views on the Finkel report.

• JUNE 12

Readers express mixed views on giving authorities even more anti-terrorism powers.

• JUNE 11

The adage "it takes a village to raise a child" is now, more than ever, pertinent to the well-being of our communities.

• JUNE 10

Readers discuss transport in Victoria, including proposed Doncaster ''rapid transit busway''.

• JUNE 09

In the wake of the Brighton siege, readers discuss the issue of parole and rehabilitation of violent criminals.

• JUne 08

Readers continue to discuss terrorism, including how to prevent further attacks.