Letters
A working Sydney Harbour is absolutely essential for NSW
Maintaining the working harbour is absolutely essential, as it removes thousands of large trucks from our busy roads.
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Count your blessings if looking after grandkids
I’m sure there are plenty of grandparents helping out with child care through sheer financial necessity as well as those grandparents who simply want to be part of the family.
Kamala Harris’ nomination to be America’s own ‘teal’ movement
With Donald Trump’s support of Project 2025 which proposes to remove women’s rights at the federal level this has become a #metoo or “teal” moment in America where women and women of colour decide to support a progressive woman.
Biden a decent, caring and strong man
One thing that will be said about Joe Biden, which will not be able to be said about Donald Trump, is that Joe Biden was a truly decent man: caring, honest, strong, thoughtful, perceptive, respectful, generous and kind. Thank you, Joe. You epitomise all that is good about our American friends.
Is the Christian rhetoric swirling around Trump making the faithful cringe?
Trump has systemically broken many of the 10 commandments. Yet, he triumphantly declared that God saved him from death.
Political violence, policy stasis, toxic talk can enrage some
The political terrain today seems more hostile than it was before, but has there ever been a time when progress on policy has been more constrained?
CFMEU charges should not tarnish unions movement
Let’s not target the entire union movement with corruption and criminality because of the wayward CFMEU.
Sydney’s tolls debacle is driving us to distraction
If Sydneysiders were like Parisians, we would be taking to the streets this weekend to demand the government rectify the motorway and tolling systems that bedevil motorists all over the city.
Guns and fiery rhetoric led to failed hit on Trump
When one takes the number of American deaths from gun violence into account, it is hardly surprising that a presidential candidate would have an attempt made on his life.
Why the Black Hand name is not a joke
George Brandis must have had a memory lapse when claiming “the Liberal Party does not really have factions”. Does he not recall the ironic laughter and jeers that followed then-prime minister Malcolm Turnbull’s claim to the October 2015 meeting of the NSW State Council that “we are not run by factions”?