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Monday August 4
All Trump’s friends
“It seems to be an outrageous insanity because without Murdoch and the Fox narrative, Trump would never have won the Presidency. Now he’s putting both his leading supporters – Murdoch and Musk – in his vitriolic sights? When shooting yourself in the foot, would you use a double barrelled shotgun?”
Antoni Sappell
How we parent
“An excellent and timely article on the serious but hidden problem of parental coercive control. As a child, I was thrashed for even minor infringements of my mother’s commands. Even now at the age of 82 I can remember a conversation my mother had with our next door neighbour about what was the best ‘stick’ to use to discipline a child where the stick wouldn’t break! (The cane handle of a fluffy wooden duster.) The challenge came for me when my mother was diagnosed with dementia and I had to support her as she transitioned to a nursing home. I realised that I needed counselling to care for a mother who hadn’t shown me a lot of care throughout my childhood. Sessions with a grief and loss counsellor did wonders for me to offload all my childhood resentments and give my mother the support she needed in her final years of life.”
Name withheld
Right here!
“I’d like to know what your policy is on readers providing comments on articles. For most articles I read there seems no capacity to comment like there used to be a few years ago.”
Jim Donaldson 
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Tuesday August 5
On bravery
“Brave is: getting fair return for our resources. Taxing the super wealthy. Getting out of AUKUS. Readjusting the GST distribution. Enacting the outcomes of the many royal commissions. We have given the Albanese government a clear direction on the society we desire: fair, equitable, just.”
Bill Morgan
What about B Corp?
“Thanks to Peter Underwood for his very insightful piece Go woke, go broke. I wonder where he’d place the B Corp/B Lab movement in his assessment of the helpful progress of businesses in moving to a more socially aware capitalism in the future of corporate responsibility.”
Len Puglisi, Burwood East
Funny dunny
“In your article Your phone is covered in germs, the author states we take our phones to the ‘bathroom’. Does she mean the ‘toilet’? Here in Australia we defecate and urinate in the ‘toilet’ not the ‘bathroom’. Could you please use proper English not Murcan, lest we become as psychotic as the Murcans.”
Name withheld
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