The article points out that the world is moving inexorably to clean energy as a replacement for fossil fuels and that Australia has enormous potential to play an important part in this switch.

Our exciting natural advantages in renewable energy and in raw materials like lithium and iron ore give us the potential to be at the forefront of the inevitable changes in energy and manufacturing production.

We can only hope that our federal government, hopelessly wedged on energy policy, will somehow find the ability to adopt sane policies that allow us to play an influential part in this desperately needed global action.

Last year I applauded the government for its stimulus measures to combat the virus and its economic effects.

This week's mean and unrealistic economic package is a reversion to old thinking and will result in poverty.

We have over a million unemployed and a million underemployed. There are nine applications for every job vacancy.

What clap trap to say "jobs, jobs, jobs" as the economy is under-performing by at least 10 per cent. What a pathetic approach to have everybody waste time on making 20 job applications for non-existent jobs.

We need stimulus. The government can borrow at about one per cent per annum and the RBA stimulate by printing money to buy the debt and we have no significant inflation yet to worry about.

The trillion dollar debt costs less in interest than four years ago, even without the RBA stimulus.

The government can easily apply some basic Keynesian economics or creative incentives like the $15,000 building grant. This will provide jobs, reduce welfare and harvest taxation.

Faye Thornhill underlines the dangers of black and white thinking by distinguishing those people seeking more information on COVID-19 (Letters, February 24) from anti-vaxxers. As she indicates, the label anti-vaxxer is derisive and perceived as belonging to the ratbag fringe.

The federal government and much of the media has done similar with public resistance to 5G, attempting to link such people with a discredited theory about a link between 5G and the coronavirus.

There are many concerned scientists and doctors raising scientifically based concerns about 5G, particularly with the planned use of mmWaves, which have not been used before for telecommunications purposes on a broad public scale.

The Swedish oncologist Professor Lennart Hardell is one, and many others can be viewed at the list of signatories of the 5G Appeal available on the web.

I believe the government's assurances about the safety of 5G are flimsy indeed, relying on industry influenced advisory bodies.

My purpose in writing this letter is to say it easy to ignore those people trying to survive on JobSeeker when you don't have to worry about where your next meal is coming from.

Food is such an expensive item and when fruit, grains, and vegetables go up people risk being malnourished and may become obese from cheap comfort food. This will impact our GP's and hospitals badly.

Why not attach food vouchers to the JobSeeker payment? A country is only as good as how it treats those who are struggling to survive.

As Australian society becomes increasingly more aware of the urgency of climate change and better understands the science, it is hardly surprising that letters to newspapers reflect that ("The Bolshie Push", Letters, February 19).

The Canberra Times is no different. Given the severity of recent bushfires, and the Australian government's snail pace, I am sure writers will become increasingly impatient and angry. As for the "Oz/US alliance", better to be an ally of Biden than Trump when it comes to climate change.

After Novak Djokovic convincingly won the final of the Australian Open on Sunday night it was confirmed the injury he suffered in the third round was indeed a muscle tear.

There were many, led by our very own "local hero", who somewhat maliciously questioned that he was even injured, let alone having a torn muscle, claiming that it would be impossible to play if that were the case.

Djokovic tends not to respond to such jibes as what he says is often blown up or misrepresented.

I trust that Nick and company will now apologise, and admit that Novak showed great guts in playing on.

If Nick wants to have a go at Djokovic he should try competing with him with his racquet, not his tongue. He would then find, no doubt, that he does not get such a free swing at him.

What is alleged to have happened to Brittany Higgins is truly awful. Not just on that night, but in the months and years since.

We now know that abuse of power is intrinsic to the prevailing culture within Parliament House.

This is a sense of entitlement built on privilege and power. Do these people have any genuine appetite for cultural and structural change? The aphorism "When you are accustomed to privilege, equality can feel like oppression" would suggest not.

I remind Erwin Wagner (Letters, February 21) housing is the responsibility of the states and territories. In 1974 we were governed by the federal government. In 1988 self-government was forced on us by the Labor government of the day.

Neither the Prime Minister or the federal government are responsible for the shocking state we are in. It is our own territory government. God help those who need social housing. Mr Wagner should write a letter to Andrew Barr.

The federal government is trying to respond to the recently aired very serious and unacceptable events. Parliamentarians are speaking about parliamentary workplace culture but have quickly narrowly defined the ambit of "workplace culture".

Workplace culture and any change in that culture require top down leadership. The serious events are clearly associated with lack of respect.

Almost every day the behaviour of parliamentarians across Australia demonstrates a serious lack of respect. Their behaviour is confronting and it is little wonder a lack of respect permeates their workplaces. It is time for parliamentarians themselves to show respect. A change in their behaviour will permeate their workplaces.

Ben Oquist ("ACT's euthanasia insult weakens our democracy", February 20, p33) argues the still current, 1996 federal legislation that prohibits the ACT and the Northern Territory from legislating on euthanasia is a "double whammy."

It debases our democracy and it prevents the two territories from debating and legislating an issue of key importance to many Australians .

Already two Australian states have passed legislation. Three others are currently debating the topic.

Now is surely the time for our ACT representatives on all sides of politics to join forces with their counterparts in the Northern Territory to pressure the federal government to overturn the 1996 legislation.

As Oquist points out, you don't have to be in favour of euthanasia to recognise that this legislation is utterly anti-democratic.

Margaret Lee (Letters, February 23) nostalgically wants the resumption of daily household mail deliveries.

But at whose cost? The free lunch school of public policy has many supporters.

Stamp prices are quite high, but the letters business still loses heavily. That is an increasing annual, if indirect, subsidy by the taxpayer.

Quite simply there is no longer a general community need for a subsidised daily letter delivery. There are many better uses for taxpayers' money.

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