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Monday September 21
“I found the article about good data centres, ‘What does a good data centre future look like? And how do we get there?’, to be a hopeful change to the commentary about water, land and energy use by other media. However, like most other sources I’ve read, this one didn’t comment about the need to ensure substantial taxes or royalties are actually paid by these companies. At this point it seems to me that our politicians are blindly – or irresponsibly – walking into another free gas debacle.”
Linda Black, Ferntree Gully VIC
“What makes housing 'affordable’? Is there a percentage of the income table? Who dictates affordability? Companies are being given incentives to build these homes but we don’t hear about the incomes of the people waiting for them. Are they for rent or to buy? We need a deeper conversation and understanding of what rights and expectations the community has about a safe place to live.”
Pamela Curr 
Tuesday September 22
“In reference to ‘Why Sydney Sweeney’s controversial advert goes beyond sexualising women’s sport’, it seems that society has not progressed when it comes to respect towards women. Online pornographic content that degrades women including practices such as strangulation promoted as eroticism is an outrage to women. I believe domestic violence has become a shameful epidemic and it’s appalling that women continue to be denigrated and sexualised in the media, adding fuel to the already violent firestorm that exists. It’s past time that men, who are clearly the beneficiaries in this subject matter, need to take a stand on behalf of the women of the world who are their mothers and daughters.”
Shan Coppard
“As the authors make clear in the article ‘What major tests like PISA and NAPLAN get wrong about Indigenous students’, these testing instruments are not best practice for Indigenous students. In my opinion, the other students are also poorly served by them. I believe standardised testing creates winners and losers.”
Kym Houghton