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Monday September 22
Defer the prize
Top idea: defer the Australian War Memorial’s prize for military history. The judging panel is now redundant. The War Memorial Council has demonstrated backflips previously seen only in the building it faces (ed: parliament, for those playing along at home). Political Correctness has no place at the War Memorial and a governance review is urgent. Chris Masters, Karl James and Denise Carlyon could have that done in a month.
Glen Davis
Cartel politics
The major parties have worked together to disadvantage new entrants to the political system, particularly the independents who threaten them. In making Parliament less responsive to the will of the people they confirm for us that politics isn’t working. Unfortunately one of the alternatives on offer at times like this is from the far right and we see that playing out in the current battle over the Liberal party leadership.
Gary Barnes 
Healthy homes
I live in a unit that is very cold. The unit is owned by community housing and built on a concrete slab with tiles and some carpet. Is there anything I can do to change this?
Name withheld
Ed: These tips for renters and for really cold places are from a few years ago, but will hopefully still help you get through the last weeks of cold.
Tuesday September 23
Optus overreach
I was concerned to read the deaths directly attributed to the Triple Zero outage. While the inability to call is important, it is probably too early to link the two. This categorical statement seems to preempt full investigation. I’d expect a more conservative approach.
Peter Green
More marine parks
I would like to add an 8th thing we should do today to meet our climate goals: immediate action to create new marine national parks to allow regeneration of seagrass meadows and kelp forests to capture CO2 and allow sea life to recover.
Sharyn Young
Political prize
Political correctness should have had absolutely no place in the Australian War Memorial’s decision about the book award or in the general day to day functioning of the Memorial.
Bob Penrose
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