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Truth and justice commissions will reveal the truth We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss May 1, 2021 — 12.06am Normal text size Credit: Teela Reid is right to extol the new school curriculum that will tell what really happened to First Nations people from the invasion to this day, but there needs to be a post-school curriculum to guide truth and justice commissions to tell all Australians what happened as proposed by the Uluru Statement from the Heart (“Truth-telling begins in school at least”, April 30). To their credit, the Victorian...

Ticket scheme riding on a wing and a prayer We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss March 13, 2021 — 12.05am Normal text size Credit: Bridget McKenzie might have lost her ministerial position, but the Coalition clearly filed away her spreadsheet ready for a rainy day (“Sydney fears being left high and dry in tourism cash splash”, March 12). Now we hear that $1.2 billion is being tossed to Qantas and Virgin on routes to 13 “international” tourist destinations, all but one being marginal and Coalition-held seats. This is the same govern...

Let’s bring the nation with us January 23, 2021 — 12.05am Save Normal text size Credit: Stop the nonsense and call Australia Day “Australians Day”. Give us all an opportunity to celebrate the fact that we all live in the best country in the world. It is a fact that Aboriginal people were the first in our country, non-Aborigines developed it and migrants gave it a wonderful multicultural flavour. John Langrehr, Leabrook (SA) I despair that our government simply does not comprehend the massive insult the current Australia Day “celebration” drives into the heart...

Low dose of AstraZeneca may be key to success We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss January 16, 2021 — 12.04am Normal text size Credit: Your writer mentions the mystery of the 90 per cent efficacy rate for those people who accidently received a low dose in the AstraZeneca trial, followed by a standard dose ("Gambling on the right vaccine", January 15). No matter why it happens, why not adopt this as standard immunisation practice rather than implement a procedure with only 65 per cent efficacy? Diana Wyndham, North Sydney Reluctance to ado...

Exemptions for cabin crew elevate risk level We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Exemptions for cabin crew elevate risk level December 19, 2020 — 12.04am Normal text size Credit: Is this another dangerous misstep in our battle against the coronavirus? According to the Premier, the source of the northern beaches outbreak is from overseas and not an existing community strain (“Northern beaches cluster reaches 28 cases”, smh.com.au, December 18). How can this surprise us when flight attendants working on international routes can apply fo...