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 23
Dear Treasurer…
“Most multinationals pay little or no tax in Australia. This is because they’re taxed on their profits, which they shift to foreign or low tax jurisdictions. Ordinary Australians pay tax on our income. So why don’t we tax corporations on their income, instead of their profits? After all they are reaping the benefits from doing business here with the advantage of the infrastructure and services paid for by our taxes – so they should contribute.”
Tony Drake, Brisbane 
Tax companies more
“Corporate taxes should go up, not down. Personal tax rates should be lowered instead. Why? Because we’re a consumption based economy, so lowering personal taxes results in high consumption, period! Lowering company taxes results in higher profits shifted overseas or to shareholders, CEOs and executive bonuses.”
Rolf Stockburger
Tax truce
“We need a bipartisan approach from all sides of parliament to discuss the taxation situation in Australia. No one wants to pay more, however we all have demands to satisfy our needs in education, health and government services. All politicians should get together representatives and reach a consensus on how we can have a fair system of taxation going forward.”
Richard Cantwell, Gisborne VIC
Tuesday June 24
We’ve been wondering too, Michelle
“I would love to see an explainer about how legal the US’ attack on Iran is, from an international law standpoint. There were no weapons of mass destruction found in Iraq and that US administration had rather more credibility than the current one. I’m disquieted by the way the western media is seemingly replaying errors from very recent history.”
Michelle Spencer
Ed: Don Rothwell has written on this very topic.
No change
“I have experienced the hollow sounds of a men’s behaviour change program with my ex-husband. The resounding lack of echo means this is a dead duck. Shame about the lack of public involvement, the lack of discussion, the "behind closed doors” attitude that goes hand in hand with these programs.“
Name withheld
Losing my religion
"I was keen to find out more about a lost major artist when I began reading about Eric Smith. But when I saw his religious paintings, finishing the article became a chore. Religious pictures belong to a time when faith was widespread and claimed to be universal, without that context religious images feel like cliches. Smith’s disappearance seems more like an artist who lost touch with the world he lived in, than anything mysterious.”
Kym Houghton
Wednesday June 25
Stay neutral
“I’m 80 and thought I’d seen it all until the current US political turmoil. Here’s our basic problem: Australia somehow feels the need to choose sides and get involved in other nations’ wars led by egotistical megalomaniacs. The Boer war, WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam etc. It’s not a footy game! Not a spectator sport! It’s ordinary people who suffer and die, not those at the top. Not the generals, not the politicians, not the CEOs. I’d love to see our leaders embrace neutrality and give help to the affected. Make a positive commitment rather than add to the misery.”
John Timmers
Bird games
“Your story about the deaths of thousands of birds through collisions with power lines must only refer to certain species of birds, or perhaps only to the high voltage power lines that march across the landscape, not the ones in my street. We have hundreds and hundreds of resident corellas that can be seen in the late afternoon perched on our town power lines. They also play hide and seek with the traffic lights; they seem fascinated with the changing light pattern. They do make an amusing sight whilst waiting for the lights to change!”
Elaine Langshaw, Nowra NSW
Opera fan
“I just LOVED Laura Case’s elegant dissection of the opera Aphrodite. The modal harmonies were absolutely stunning, it was quite spellbinding and, uh-huh, beautiful!”
Barbara Rooke
Thursday June 26
You had plenty to say about Michelle Grattan’s report on Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s reluctant support of the United States’ bombing on Iran. A selection follows:
Support through gritted teeth
“Besides the points already brought up by Michelle Grattan, Anthony Albanese’s final capitulation to supporting Trump’s strikes on Iran may also have been the mauling he was getting in the conservative press for not immediately congratulating him. Albanese knows that two previous prime ministers have tried to take on Murdoch and failed.”
Gary Barnes, Mosman NSW
The US’ loyal sidekick?
“Observing the Australian Government respond to the US’ attacks on Iran is painful. Albanese and Wong know the attacks are illegal. They are wedged. They cannot publicly criticise the US, as it’s Australia’s protector. The rest of the world knows this and knows Australia is a powerless lackey of the US.”
Cid Mateo, Yuin Country
Playing it too safe
“Albanese said we would not become involved in wars that were not in our area. I wonder how he will justify supporting America in bombing Iran? I think that maybe this government is relying on this year’s election results to say they’re safe for the next one.”
Peter Bolton
Friday June 27
Disappointed reader
“I write to express concern regarding the article about Netanyahu’s war aims. It frames Israel’s military aggression as a matter of strategic necessity, while casting Iran as an abstract threat — dehumanised and delegitimised. This asymmetrical portrayal reflects a troubling bias that normalises one state’s unilateral violence while depicting the other as inherently suspect.”
Saqlain Imam, London UK
Shame on ABC
“The pro-Israel lobby in Australia is extremely active and threatening in attempting to silence the truth from journalists. John Lyons documents this starkly in his book ‘Balcony over Jerusalem’. Editors need to protect their journalists from this lobby’s efforts to stifle free speech and truthful reporting. Shame on the ABC managers who failed to stand up to the pressure from this lobby.”
Name withheld, Canberra ACT
Changing my vote
“I honestly would not have voted for Labor had I known what sellouts they would be, backing the US. I would have voted Green. Like many, the risk of Dutton as PM was too much to bear, and with little trust of the collective intelligence of the Australian population, Labor was the ‘safest’ bet.”
Pamela Gurner-Hall