• October 13

Can't keep military plans safe, so why are we subcontracting out the details of Centrelink customers?

• October 12

Not sure on what planet Australia's Foreign Minister Julie Bishop lives, but it's not on the one on which I live.

• October 11

For decades we have been warned about climate change, and we have preferred to do next to nothing.

• October 10

Maybe support would be more forthcoming if residents were given something more than just apartments.

• October 9

An Australia with its gun laws scrapped, as Shooters, Fishers and Farmers MP Robert Borsak desires, is an Australia the vast majority do not want ("The killer quirk hiding in our gun laws", October 7-8). The thought of it sends chills down the spine. One only has to look at the US, and the continual carnage there, to view what our society would become if our gun laws were scrapped. John Cotterill Kingsford​

• October 8

Tony Abbott should publicly answer a simple question: Do you think Jesus will save us from global warming? ("If it had only rained until the end of September", October 1.) Because, as an ex-student priest, and a blind neo-liberal who believes we should "let the markets work their magic", it seems that he does believe that the "only recourse ... will be prayer".

• October 7

Why bother with a state budget when the NSW government can strip transport funding less than halfway through a financial year?

• October 6

The Las Vegas attack is evidence of how criminals can remain undetected. It requires more than visual surveillance to recognise the motive and execution of the gunman's plan.

• October 5

President Trump must make sure only the right type of guns get into the hands of the right type of people in America.

• October 4

You have now had the worst mass shooting in US history and what will be done about it? Nothing.

• October 3

It is not same-sex marriage that "cleaves our society to pieces", but the intrusion of outdated and irrelevant church dogma into our secular lives.

• October 2

The notion that the Commonwealth Grants Commission might penalise NSW and Victoria for not allowing fracking for gas extraction is utterly undemocratic and, dare I say it, un-Australian.

• October 1

Are the lovely Margaret Wyatt, 80, and her husband adopting ("Housing affordability: growing divide between haves and have-nost", September 24) I am happy to fill out an application form!

• September 30

For a project that promises to "bring Sydney closer together", WestConnex seems to be causing more than its fair share of division and controversy.

• September 29

Rather than build smaller stadiums, they might like to work on building up a game worth filling them.

• September 28

Unless Australia can find a statesman it is not hard to envision this dry continent becoming uninhabitable within a century.

• September 27

No Malcolm Turnbull, the recklessness surrounding gas supply does not lie with the Berejiklian government.

• September 26

It seems to me that if we don't like the way nursing homes are run, we need to plan our own.

• September 25

Once again aged care is in the spotlight with an elderly dementia resident suffering a painful death. Each time I read of the horrific incidents I wonder how many more such incidents are going unnoticed as some residents in aged care facilities don't have family or friends visiting. People expect deaths but so many occur prematurely. The Minister for Aged Care, Ken Wyatt, said we should be asking questions when selecting a facility for a family member. I say we should all be asking the minister some questions about what this government is going to do to improve the care to our elderly folk. Improving staffing ratios would be a good start and better wages for staff who are doing a very demanding job. Once again the bulk of these aged care workers  are women, similar to the early childhood sector where wages are also low. At least with early childhood they have much improved staffing ratios now, either 1:4 or 1:5 I believe.  Jennifer Creighton Modanville East

• September 24

Parks - let's put a block of units on every one of 'em. And the zoo, that's a lot of land not properly utilised.

• September 23

There is no closing date on the Australian Marriage Law Survey in either the letter or the survey paper. Is this intentional?

• September 22

Where in the world would anyone close a heavy transport link without costing an adequate replacement, then spend $200,000 trying to discover who had leaked details to a long-suffering travelling public?

• September 21

Money being sought to extract more output from the exhausted Liddell power station would be better spent on a solar thermal plant.

• September 20

While imposing a tax on sugary drinks is one measure to attempt to reduce obesity, there are other factors to consider.

• September 19

The federal government, not content with NAPLAN testing for children in years 3, 5, 7 and 9, now proposes a test for children in year 1.

• September 18

As a solicitor, I worked at the Inner City Legal Centre on "gay night" every week for some years in the '90s. A man in his late 50s came to talk about the parents of his late partner of 25 years. They had disowned him after his "decision" to be gay but turned up, some time after he died, to reclaim his body, to have it exhumed and taken back to New Zealand, a situation if equality of marriage had been in place, would never have occurred.

• COMMENT

How heartbreaking to lose a child due to a burst appendix.

• September 16

Uniforms make it clear that the students are of school age and should be treated appropriately.

• September 15

The Prime Minister once supported a plan called Beyond Zero Emissions. What happened to that Malcolm Turnbull of old?