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Monday September 7
“Reading ‘Grattan on Friday: economic life won’t get much better until Australians climb that productivity mountain’, I couldn’t help but think of what I saw Alan Kohler say on ABC TV News (more than once). Kohler considered the poor state of productivity and showed a graph on business investment in it. The graph showed businesses on a kind of capital strike, failing to put new money into their enterprises that would lift (‘hike’!) productivity. No-one else has mentioned this in my news sources.”
Kym Houghton
“Advertisers and marketers understand that keeping a brand in the forefront of people’s minds is a good strategy for potential sales and influence. Even when there is little substance to ‘products’, if you’ve heard of a brand, you might purchase it ahead of another. One Nation receives a lot of media coverage. There appears to be little political debate in what they offer, save trading insults and hyperbolic, extreme comments.”
Stewart Stubbs, NSW
Tuesday September 8
“Reading last week’s article ‘As global heating heads to 1.8C, is it time to consider the ‘Voldemort’ of climate policy?’, we can always hope that technology will fix our climate threat. The most effective way we can diminish this threat is to stabilise and gradually reduce our population. There is a direct correlation between population growth and CO2 emissions, declining wildlife populations, energy and fresh water use, food security and much more.”
Jennie Epstein, Little River VIC 
“The text of this article ‘Is Australia’s school system ‘anti‑boy’?’ does not even begin to address the question whether the school system is anti-boy. It focuses solely on whether consent teaching is anti-boy. What about the rest of the curriculum? What literature is taught? Does it include books and plays and movies that boys will engage with? Or geography or history? Or does consent teaching limit all of those options? How is the STEM curriculum arranged to engage boys? Boys are different from girls and current gender ideologies. They need to be engaged for the whole curriculum through different strategies than those which enable girls to prosper. Both are essential to our future.”
Joanne Blackburn
This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article.
