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From Queensland, Richard Jeffreys heralded the election’s “outstanding result” but got stuck into the Australian Electoral Commission…

“Totally disorganised. Staff could not answer questions directed to them, the web site did not list many of the pre-poll locations, on one particular day I could not reach their office as the lines were jammed.”

And when the AEC bleated about a 50 per cent increase in demand for postal votes - it was obvious to anyone that “more and more people are working weekends - thousands upon thousands outside of their own electorates and do not have enough time during their lunch break to stand in line”.

David Mason writes in support of national self-reliance in response to Michael Wesley’s The Australia US Alliance. 

“The Alliance is good strategy for Australia, given our own lack of strategic leverage, but it breeds a national syndrome of psychological dependence, which has been a root cause of the failure of successive Australian governments to under-invest in defence as a percentage of GDP/GNP.”

N E Hanratty was disappointed by Greg Barnes’ review of Richard Wolin's book, The Seduction of Reason.