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Monday June 29
Elon’s free islands
“Gina Rinehart wants the Queensland government to GIVE Elon Musk an island so he can launch rockets. GIVE? The richest man in the world needs a handout? Why do these large corporations constantly need billions in government funding? Corporations expect us to pay our bills. Why can’t they pay theirs?”
Mark Penman, Greenslopes, QLD 
Is soft power the way forward?
“In the article on what survival lessons Australia can learn from the Iran war, the author suggests alternative military strategies. What was not sufficiently discussed is soft power. We spend vastly more on defence than on soft power, not taking into account what we intend to spend on nuclear submarines. Soft power projection would provide far more security, on a dollar-for-dollar basis, than military options. We should reach out to Asia, especially Indonesia and the rest of Southeast Asia, and be accepted as part of it in both cultural and economic terms.”
Ranjan Yagoda
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