The Russian invasion of Ukraine has led several European governments to consider or actually reinstate military conscription. Should Australia be among them, asks ROSS FITZGERALD and DICK WHITAKER.
"Child-protection systems too often misinterpret or underestimate the strength of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ways of raising children and kinship networks," writes indigenous advocate JULIE TONGS.
"The territory tentacles that recently acquired seven acres of Lake Burley Griffin lakebed at West Basin, are now extending into the national land of Commonwealth Park," says letter writer JULIET RAMSAY.