Mark Schiefelbein/AP, AAP/Darren England, The Dialog
https://theconversation.com/your-say-week-beginning-june-29-286340
https://theconversation.com/your-say-week-beginning-june-29-286340
Proportion article
Monday June 29
Elon’s loose islands
“Gina Rinehart wants the Queensland government to GIVE Elon Musk an island so he can launch rockets. GIVE? The richest man in the world needs a handout? Why do these large corporations constantly need billions in government funding? Corporations expect us to pay our bills. Why can’t they pay theirs?”
Mark Penman, Greenslopes, QLD
Is cushy energy the way in which ahead?
“In the article on what survival lessons Australia can learn from the Iran war, the author suggests alternative military strategies. What was not sufficiently discussed is soft power. We spend vastly more on defence than on soft power, not taking into account what we intend to spend on nuclear submarines. Soft power projection would provide far more security, on a dollar-for-dollar basis, than military options. We should reach out to Asia, especially Indonesia and the rest of Southeast Asia, and be accepted as part of it in both cultural and economic terms.”
Ranjan Yagoda
Earlier publish
Printed: June 24, 2026
Your say: week initiating June 22
