Eva Elbourne News Today

Deliberate and casual remarks and opinions that denigrate Indigenous Australians and immigrants abound. It is concerning to note that racist views are often aired with confidence and a presumption that one will agree with, and certainly not challenge, such hurtful bigotry and prejudice.

For more than 25 years I taught with pictures of famous economists above the black/whiteboard to inspire my students. They were: Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Karl Marx, John Maynard Keynes and Milton Friedman. Guess who completed the row?

Peter Dutton has criticised the government for not sending a boat to the Red Sea. In an even bigger surprise, the sun will rise tomorrow.

There is a difficult balance between heritage protection and new building that becomes the heritage of the future.

Eva Elbourne, Greg Birggs, Howard Clark, Gary Murrell, Diana Anderson, Ben Cato, Don Firth

We demonise asylum seekers as illegal boat people and lock them up for years. Meanwhile, our lucky citizens can travel to the countries from where refugees originate.

Metro costs have ballooned, but these costs will be absorbed over centuries, with a long future of extensive use.

There is no need for a lengthy and expensive royal commission into Scott Morrison’s absurd behaviour in appointing himself to five separate ministries. It is abundantly clear that his actions were a slap in the face of democracy.

The attorney-general shoudl take the next step to investigate and prosecute those who ordered the illegal bugging of the Timor-Leste offices.

All the pomp and ceremony from London to mark the Queen’s platinum jubilee only serves to remind us that it’s time we went our own constitutional way.