Every day, we publish a selection of your emails in our newsletter. We’d love to hear from you, you can email us at yoursay@theconversation.edu.au
Monday June 16
No deal
“In the era where the US Defence Secretary is hinting that he has plans to take Greenland by force, are we really sure that we want to commit to AUKUS? And what would that commitment mean for the US if it can be ’reviewed’ at any time, by any administration? Keep the US an ally, but let’s not be a vassal state.”
Alex Craig
Friends elsewhere
“AUKUS came at the expense of a submarine contract with France, the cancellation of which gave us nothing for a whole lot of money. With the US no longer a reliable ally under Trump, we should be sending a clear message that we won’t compromise or bargain on the deal, or scrap it.”
Leigh Scott
Capital gains for public transport
“Housing affordability cannot simply be addressed by reducing regulation to facilitate more development. We should also look at increasing windfall gain taxes, like capital gains, so that governments can finance the public transport infrastructure necessary to support greater density by recovering some of the windfall gains that flow to landowners from the up-zonings that infrastructure enables.”
John Moratelli
Tuesday June 17
Not a single email from you in support of AUKUS
“The sooner we get out of AUKUS the better. $368 billion would be much better spent here on health, housing and more.”
Dr Robin Gibson 
“The friendship between Australia and the US has always been costly, but with Trump at the helm, it’s clearly become unaffordable. The time has come to step up in our own neighbourhood.”
Denise Martin
“By the time we get the AUKUS subs (if we get them at all), our supposed aggressors could be sipping gin and tonic atop their aircraft carriers and waiting for our delayed response.”
Rosalind Drake
“I have yet to hear a clear argument for why AUKUS is in Australia’s interests. We have a very big country to protect here and now given the world circumstances.”
Jocelyn O'Neill
“If the US reneges on the AUKUS agreement, does Australia get its money back? If not, we should withhold our critical minerals.”
Gordon Payne, South Fremantle WA
“It’s extremely costly and there’s a lot of well informed discussion as to the possibility that no subs will ever be delivered.”
John Courcier, Coffs Harbour NSW
Wednesday June 18
Free energy
“It’s now, as we see another oil price shock, that I think of the time lost to the climate wars. Renewable fuels, wind, sun and rain, are free. And importantly, they’re inflation free. Fossil fuels, and nuclear fuel, have a price to supply, which keeps on going up, driving inflation for the whole economy.”
Julian Lawrence, Karana Downs QLD
US not our protector
“When will the federal government face the inevitable that the US tenure in east Asia has run its course? Defence Minister Richard Marles must know this yet he persists with a ‘steady as she goes’ line that the US will always be here to protect us. This attitude is based on a misreading of geopolitical trends and a denial of the shift in relative positions between America and China. AUKUS must be scrapped – yes, we need submarines, but not nuclear submarines and we need them now not in twenty years.”
Robert Clark, Red Hill VIC
Good riddance
“I’m not sad to see the demise of The Project and Q&A! On the rare occasion I tuned in, I got sick of seeing experts of nothing offering their opinions as ‘expert’ advice. Opinions contribute nothing to the pool of human knowledge – in fact, they lead to alternative truths being considered truths.”
Leigh Bunting
Thursday June 19
Trump and the Middle East
“One can’t help but be concerned about Trump’s hawkish rhetoric towards Iran, given his heavy-handed "America first” approach to foreign policy. If this ends up with a US-based incursion, will we once again hear the call to arms to America’s allies? Look where that got us with Afghanistan and Vietnam.“
Steve Amesbury, Nowra NSW
Net-zero fossil fuel exporter?
"Hey Australia, let’s find an economic doublespeak title we can use, that says it’s OK to mine and export as much coal and gas as we like. Here’s a good one: net-zero exporter of fossil fuels. Science says the world has to stop burning fossil fuels. Australia can’t be allowed to feel good about our huge contribution to that burning, by being called a Net-Zero Exporter of Fossil Fuels.”
Mal Robertson, Wollongong, NSW
Cutting corporate tax
“The cost of a corporate tax cut would be a substantial wealth transfer from Australian taxpayers to the foreign investors. The question is whether any productivity gains would compensate for this and that seems to be a very open question.”
Graham Partington
Friday June 20
Tax (reform) time
“In Jim Chalmers, we have the best Treasurer since Paul Keating when it comes to economic and tax reform. He has the credentials, the experience and the means to articulate complex public policy and why we need it. But the Treasurer is only one voice. Reform will ultimately be determined by the Australian electorate. In 2019, it rejected tax reform. In 2023, it rejected the Voice for the most trodden on in our country’s history. Australians, it’s up to you.”
Cid Mateo, Yuin Country
Corporate tax cuts
“With the extra money from lower taxation, businesses can choose to increase investment, increase profits, or grow by acquisition. But has anyone ever researched what businesses do with the extra money? Considering executive bonuses are based on share price which is driven by profitability and total capitalisation it’s not at all obvious that lower company tax leads to increased investment.”
Anthony McPhee, Cairns QLD
Invest in the bush
“If Australia is truly ‘awash with cash looking for investment opportunities’, why don’t those with the cash invest in the country? Support advanced research to address climate change and medical innovation, build hospitals and schools instead of shopping centres and highrises, fund efforts to repair and protect our damaged environment. The list is long, the need is there, the opportunities ‘endless’…”
Anne Heath Mennell