What is "un-Australian", Minister Dutton, is to attack the constitution and the rule of law. They are what gives us our very Australian freedom. ("Lawyers representing asylum seekers are 'un-Australian': Peter Dutton", smh.com.au, August 28). Dominic Toomey, SC Annandale
Is this the start of what we can look forward to when Minister Dutton fully establishes his super ministry?
NAPLAN is stressing out millennials, Gen Y wants their parents' money, and Baby Boomers are living longer than ever and spending the kids' inheritance.
Lord mayor Clover Moore called the proposed $11.3 million Cloud Arch sculpture "heroic" ("Wider, heavier – and three times the price", August 25). Sir Humphrey Appleby would have been proud of her!
I have a suggestion that may help David Jones boss John Dixon entice shoppers into its stores ("DJs faults austerity for drop in sales", August 25). Instead of "exclusive brands" and $100 million grocery shops, why not try stocking a few brands that shoppers might actually want to buy?
Instead of erasing our history by removing the statues of Cook, Phillip and Macquarie, let's even the balance with statues of Bennelong, Pemulwy, Barangaroo and Colbee ("Second Sydney statue in doubt", August 24).
The war in Afghanistan is now under the control of an untrustworthy man of limited intelligence, volatile personality and minimal integrity.  Does Australia really want to go down this road?
An investigation must be carried out to show how online NAPLAN testing affects students and their results.
The federal government is unleashing thousands of chemicals onto the market without health or environmental testing. Are our politicians trying to kill us?Â
Surely, now is as good a time as any for the PM to stand up and be counted, and re-embrace, albeit belatedly, his once-expressed values.
Has anyone heard anything about our expensive de-salination plant at Kurnell? Is it working? Is it being regularly turned on to keep it active for the troubles ahead?
I have never heard Pauline Hanson championing women's causes. She seems far more interested in stirring up racial hatred.
An impressive list from NSW Transport Minister Andrew Constance (Letters, August 18) of rail services and trains he proposes for the Sydney network. Sure hope he keeps the train drivers onside so they can be delivered.
It is beyond galling to see the Transport Minister brag about his plan to use automation to eliminate transport workers.
Gay politics has always been about a cultural pride and driving to be accepted for exactly what we are. Not what everyone else wishes we are. But suddenly, or not so suddenly, we seem to have become no longer proud of what we are and have taken to redefining ourselves as failed heterosexuals instead. We seem to have become ashamed of being homosexual.
How disingenuous of your Foreign Minister Julie Bishop to blame the NZ Labour Party for her own government's failings.
Why can't politicians ascertain the law and then obey it like the rest of us?
The debacle that is giving western Sydney a $16.8 billion motorway with exorbitant tolls before any commitment to public transport must not be repeated on the north side.
I'm looking forward to Annabel Crabbe's TV documentary series The House ("Annabel's our woman about the House", August 6). Who could possibly be better qualified to make a behind-the-scenes documentary about Parliament House than someone who spent her childhood school holidays behind the scenes at Adelaide Zoo?
What, no plebiscite to see if the majority of Australians agree on going to war with North Korea?
The Foreign Minister treads on very thin glass when she accuses North Korea of breaching international law.
If my gay brothers and sisters are thinking the same way I am today, they will be planning to boycott any plebiscite or postal vote this useless government intends dumping on an increasingly frustrated electorate.
When NAPLAN results go down, the fault apparently lies with the schools, while the government is quick to claim credit for improvements.
At 57 I still remember the way that gay men and women and their supporters were treated ("Libs reject free vote on same-sex marriage", August 8, 2017).
Are we becoming a nation of whiners? That is what the Fairfax-Ipsos focus group surveys reveal.
Hullo Donald, this is Malcolm, … you know … the Prime Minister of Australia ... ("The leaked Turnbull admission to President Trump", August 5-6).
It is indeed a brave announcement by Bill Shorten that the ALP will remove the excessive use of family trusts by the wealthy to avoid paying tax ("ALP lines up $17.2b hit on trusts loophole", July 30). Even if the present policy is legal, that does not make it moral or acceptable. Fairness, however, has never been a major concern for those who profit by leaving others, not so unscrupulous, to pay for essential services and social wellbeing. As a large number of our politicians have benefited by manipulating these trusts, I expect  Shorten will have a major fight on his hands.
Selling off the Commonwealth Bank has turned out to be not only a financial mess, but a major security risk.
Greg Whitby's analysis into the value of the HSC is forthright and insightful. (" 'HSC had its day': leading educator calls for overhaul", August 4). It is paramount that questions are raised and systems restructured to challenge changing needs and opportunities for our students. The International Baccalaureate is offered as an alternative, but caution is needed. Early this decade Britain, too, realised a need for change and rushed into an alternative English Baccalaureate to appease all concerned interest groups (students seemingly last in interest). The strength of the International version is in its breadth and depth of subject with strong international recognition. Students become engaged and look beyond to the future. The English Baccalaureate falters into rules, regulations and more testing. The necessity to overhaul the current system is imperative to ensure the NSW system remains respected and internationally well recognised. But rushed change or change to merely appease certain powerful interest groups wreaks havoc on an already overworked and stressed educational community. The change must be considered, directed at children's (and the wider community's) needs for the future and ensuring that staff are trained and in numbers (language and maths, for example) to accommodate. Mr Whitby has proposed an adequate solution, with funding, additional consultation and adequate teacher training it could happen. But let us not travel the British route and split the educational communities into rival baccalaureates. Our children are too important. Janice Creenaune Austinmer Â
If some Liberal MPs do cross the floor and marriage equality is passed, I predict that Malcolm Turnbull will be quite pleased.
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