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Media plays villain
News, Postbag, Published on 14/12/2015
» Re: "Playing the Trump card in our backyard" (Opinion, Dec 12).
With us or against us?
News, Postbag, Published on 11/12/2015
» Re: “Hypocrisy in the West,” (PostBag, Dec 8).
Claus for thought
News, Postbag, Published on 10/12/2015
» In their Dec 8 letters, both Barbara AK Franklin and Richard Mabbitt attempt to educate me about the origin of Santa Claus, or Saint Nicholas. Sorry to burst their bubble but it’s impossible to point to a real "first" Santa, because Santa is a culmination of mythological legends and stories.
Anarchy rules
News, Postbag, Published on 09/12/2015
» Re: “Army detains anti-coup activists”, (BP, Dec 8). One expects students in any country to be intelligent.
Rights are universal
News, Postbag, Published on 07/12/2015
» I respectfully disagree with letter writers who claim that Americans have no practical knowledge of Thailand and criticise the recent comments of the US ambassador (“Bahrt misses the mark” and “Criticism of Davies is fair”, PostBag, Dec 6).
Exceptions to our rights
News, Postbag, Published on 01/12/2015
» Scott A Hipsher (PostBag, Nov 30) notes that Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (not the "Declaration of Universal Rights" as he writes) has "no clauses listing exceptions".
Time to talk Turkey
News, Postbag, Published on 27/11/2015
» The downing of Russia’s plane by Turkey (BP, Nov 26) seems to be brash and likely to escalate tensions, in a region which is already brimming with conflict.
Climate denial
News, Postbag, Published on 25/11/2015
» Re: “Govt must act fast to stem scourge of climate change”, (Opinion, Nov 20).
Let's not generalise
News, Postbag, Published on 20/11/2015
» Mr Wilcox in his Nov 19 letter seems to put great effort into convincing us that terrorists who proclaim themselves to be Muslims are thereby representative of Islam as a whole. Using the same logic, or rather generalisation, all Catholics are homosexual paedophiles, Buddhist monks are purveyors of hate and violence and the Jewish people are murderous Zionist extremists, etc, etc, etc. It simply isn’t true. So I agree. It really is time to get real.
Time to get real
News, Postbag, Published on 19/11/2015
» Bob Irwin in his Nov 17 letter "A partisan post" suggests the BP has changed shirts from yellow to red. Having been an avid reader and writer of letters for almost nine years, there does seem to have been a change in editorial stance over the years.