• October 21

Paul Keating is to be congratulated for addressing an issue that can easily fall prey to mere sentimentality ("Euthanasia is a threshold moment we should not cross", October 20). I wonder if this wouldn't even be on the table if we actually had the courage to accept that a life without suffering, while desirable, is a virtual impossibility. If, in the end, the proposed bill is all about suffering, I see no reason why the law shouldn't be expanded in ever widening circles.

• October 20

A careful look at the new energy policy reveals the depths of dishonesty voters have to live with.

All the time, effort and expense on research to lengthen our lives just for us to suffer more in the end ("Cost-cutting blamed for neglect at nursing homes", October 15).

• October 19

We are on the way to providing 100 per cent of our energy needs from renewables.

• October 18

PR campaigns are pointless when the hard facts suggest they amount to little more than putting lipstick on a pig.

• October 17

How could the government get into Catholics' bedrooms? The church has been clogging up the space for centuries.

• October 16

I fully agree with Elizabeth Farrelly ("Sydney seems full of people hating people", October 14-15). But community anger is also driven by another factor – it is taking longer, and costs more, to commute to and from work by road.

• October 15

The NSW government is certainly not bereft of ways to spend our money and that is amply proven by their new push to plaster the waratah logo over all our cultural institutions ("Pressure to dump waratah cultural rebrand", October 8). Surely even they realise that when they lease out the rights to the Opera House, Taronga Zoo et al the first thing the new lessees will do is change the logo. Or is there an outside chance that this government has finally finished leasing out the state's dwindling assets? Stewart Smith North Kellyville

• October 14

It looks like millions are to be spent to raise the profile of state leader.

• 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.