Letters
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.
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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.
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”?
Calls for racing ban ignore the realities
Greyhound racing has its problems. Those are well known, publicised and understood. But so does every industry, community, profession and so forth. Problems don’t mean cancellation. Problems mean a search for and implementation of solutions. That’s what adults do in the face of adversity.
It’s tougher now than in the 1980s
Even Boomers agree: younger people are doing it terribly tough because of the cost of putting a roof over their head.
Biden must step aside
That the most powerful person on the planet continues to be in place despite the history, signs and symptoms pointing to the presence of brain disease, impaired cognition, capacity and the syndrome of dementia should be of concern.