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letters December 13, 2025
Major party politicians have two constituencies (Jason Koutsoukis, “ Exclusive: PM’s office directs lobbyists to use encrypted, disappearing messages ”, December 6-12). The voter is the constituency in front of them, bombarded with advertising for a...
letters December 12, 2025
It is revealing that all the effusive praise for the late Graham Richardson (Jason Koutsoukis, “ The Richo pact: How Graham put Albanese in charge ”, November 29–December 5) came from Labor mates; that is, politicians united in pragmatism and...
letters November 29, 2025
Joëlle Gergis (“ Can we handle the truth? ”, November 22-28) rues the failure of the latest climate COP to prevent the fossil fuel industry destroying our planet. Günther Thallinger, a board member of Allianz, one of the world’s largest insurance...
letters November 22, 2025
“ Who is the new vanguard of Liberal Party women? ” (Karen Barlow, November 15-21) only revealed a new cohort of Liberal lightweights. Their failure to see that the teals stand for a lot more beyond climate action also speaks volumes. If Mary Aldred...
letters November 15, 2025
The various interviews conducted with Coalition stakeholders relayed in your coverage of their schemozzle may hold the key to their future (“ Inside the Coalition split: ‘Like washing the bear without getting its fur wet’ ”, November 8-14). Not...
letters November 8, 2025
Jason Koutsoukis’s story about Don Farrell (“ Meet the man who really controls Canberra ,” November 1-7) shines some light on a pivotal but not well-known character in the Australian Labor Party. I hadn’t realised his influence throughout the...
letters November 1, 2025
Barnaby Joyce again demonstrates his boundless cynicism (Jason Koutsoukis, “ Exclusive: Dutton told Joyce ‘we just want you out…’ ”, October 25-31). He says he wants to rebuild the National Party by standing up for the party’s “working rural people...
letters October 25, 2025
Many thanks to Jason Koutsoukis for confirming my long-held opinion of Joe Hockey (“ The Liberal lobbyists making their fortunes in Trump’s America ”, October 18-24). It is quite obvious Hockey now operates in his natural environment – the Trump-era...
letters October 18, 2025
The claim that the “original purpose” of the freedom of information system is “exposing corruption or maladministration” (Jason Koutsoukis,“ Inside Albanese’s FOI reforms: ‘He hates transparency’ ”, October 11-17) is a self-serving untruth that...
letters October 10, 2025
It is extreme for Senator Peter Whish-Wilson to accuse the Murdoch media of being Australia’s “biggest cancer on climate action”. But no organisation is worse (“ Fighting the ‘cancer on climate action ’ ”, October 4-10). News Corp commentators...
letters October 4, 2025
Gabriella Coslovich (“ Expert advice bulldozed ”, September 27–October 3) rightly exposes the arrogance of former AFL supremo Gillon McLachlan, who persuaded Tasmania’s premier Jeremy Rockliff to accept that constructing an unpopular, divisive,...
