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Monday January 19
First Nations knowledge
“I’m wondering how much the government departments are listening to and working with our First Nations peoples on what we are facing with fire and flood events. Their ancient knowledge of land management and climate changes over 60,000 years or more must be heard and acted upon. We ignore them at the peril of us all.”
Kim Sami, Bradbury, NSW
Swim between the flags, OK?
“Whether beach flags remain coloured red and yellow or are changed to green will make no difference to the two options available to beachgoers – to either swim between them or beyond them. The red and yellow flags have operated in Australia since 1935 and are an iconic and well understood symbol of beachgoing to the Australian population.”
Dr Phil Plummer, Adelaide SA
Driving profits
“Governments love to make up rules for us all to abide by, especially when driving. It brings in a lot of revenue for them. Just touching your device when driving is an expensive lesson to be learnt if you’re caught. However, it’s quite alright to look at an advertising board strung up over a freeway while travelling at 110km/h, eyes completely off the road to see what they’re flogging this week.”
Peter Miley
Tuesday January 20
Capitulation or politics as usual?
“Why is presenting a piece of legislation to the house and debating its pros and cons and making changes seen as ‘capitulation’ and weakness from the Labour party – few if any pieces of legislation sail through without change.”
Linsey J Bamping
Hate speech and free speech
“It beggars belief that legislators of all persuasions cannot find a way to make deliberate hate speech illegal. For once, can our elected national officials rise above special interests and do what is needed. Banning deliberate hate speech is not a denial of free speech. It is actually a precursor for it.”
Dr John Halsey, Upper Sturt SA
Fictional debates
“I am puzzled and amused that some academics and Shakespeare enthusiasts are discussing and writing about the improbability of a link between the death of Shakespeare’s son, Hamnet, and his writing of the tragedy, Hamlet. Maggie O'Farrell’s novel, Hamnet, is in the genre of historical fiction. Fiction. Debating probability seems like an incredible waste of ink! The cow jumped over the moon!”
Dr Denise Burns, Aspley, Qld
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