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National response to outbreaks long overdue We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss February 15, 2021 — 10.00pm Normal text size The Age, email letters@theage.com.au. Please include your home address and telephone number. LOCKDOWN 3.0 National response to outbreaks long overdue Jewel Topsfield’s article (“Mixed feelings as Victorians tackle the third lockdown”, 15/2) was testimony to the fact that our state government appears to know of only...

A threat to informers and media freedom We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss January 7, 2021 — 8.42am Normal text size Credit:Illustration: John Shakespeare To submit a letter to The Age, email letters@theage.com.au. Please include your home address and telephone number. JULIAN ASSANGE A threat to informers and media freedom UK District Judge Vanessa Baraitser has ruled that Julian Assange cannot be extradited to the US to face espionage cha...

Findings only add to political sledging Findings only add to political sledging December 22, 2020 — 10.00pm Normal text size The Age, email letters@theage.com.au. Please include your home address and telephone number. HOTEL QUARANTINE INQUIRY Findings only add to political sledging The ‘‘scathing’’ findings of the Victorian inquiry into hotel quarantine (‘‘Shoddy is as shoddy did, and 801 died’’, 22/12) highlight the use of a privatised and casualised security workforce as a p...

Coastal destruction is no laughing matter Coastal destruction is no laughing matter December 15, 2020 — 10.00pm Normal text size The Age, email letters@theage.com.au. Please include your home address and telephone number. ENVIRONMENT Coastal destruction is no laughing matter The storm surges and inundation being experienced in southern Queensland are a result of more intense storms arising from climate change coinciding with a king tide. Scientists have been warning of this for decades, a con...