• JULY 15

Readers continue to discuss pro-coal stance, clean energy and global warming.

• JULY 14

Readers discuss issues relating to the environment, including the proposed surcharge on new cars and the increased power prices.

• JULY 13

Readers discuss the planned redevelopment of the Queen Victoria Market.

• JULY 12 WEDNESDAY

Readers, in the main, find it hard to fathom why politicians would not sign up for uniform ethical standards.

• JULY 11 TUESDAY

Readers discuss what 'liberal' PM Robert Menzies would make of today's political issues.

• JULY 10 MONDAY

Readers are alarmed, and sceptical, of a missile defence shield for Australia.

• JULY 09

Readers discuss various aspects of Melbourne's public transport system

• JUNE 08

Readers discuss the situation with North Korea, and how Australia and the world should react to it.

• JULY 07

Readers discuss a range of issues relating to sport, including violence in football, the cricketers' pay dispute and Bernard Tomic's performance, both on and off the court.

• 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.