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 July 6
“Your article regarding auction clearance rates could have pointed to the way auctions limit the pool of buyers. They work when the sellers and buyers are both familiar with the range available, think wool, or wheat, or used machinery, but house auctions require the potential buyer to research the market from scratch, to become familiar with similar properties in the area, to in effect become experts on a par with the local estate agents. This drastically reduces the pool of potential buyers; it also blocks people from considering houses in other suburbs and towns. Fixed-price advertising, especially in the internet age, broadens the pool to all those who can afford that price range, not just a few temporary "auction experts”.
Tom Danby, Campbells Creek
“When it comes to immigration, I wonder why there’s so much emphasis on economics, race, multiculturalism and so little attention to what the land can carry, especially as climate changes start to bite?”
Sandra Sewell, Tamborine Mountain
“I’m 82 years old and needless to say, I’ve had many of my dearest people suffer and die over the years. For myself, with some chronic conditions happening, I would welcome voluntary assisted dying in the future. My mum was nearly 96 when she died with diabetes and had breathing difficulties over many years. Having to wait is cruel. I live in regional Victoria and no system is in place for me to have this.”
Ros Kuhlmann
Tuesday July 7
“Loving the migration series, but I’m concerned by reader comments that Australia is "at capacity” or similar. The notion that Australia is environmentally overpopulated, when our cities are littered with suburban sprawl and our public transport networks can’t get enough capacity to run more than half-hourly services (often hourly) from many places to the middle of the city (let alone between neighbouring suburbs) forcing most people to rely on cars, is baffling to me. We don’t have a population problem, we have a per capita space/resource consumption problem. We need to bunch up, reduce our footprints, and welcome the critical mass of people that will make better public services more viable to deliver.“
Katrina Couzens 
"Personally, as someone who has always voted Green, I’m actually at a loss as to who to vote for at the next election. I can only vote to keep the right wing out, which is really sad that no one on the middle to the left has the guts to really stand up for something. It seems that there’s a politics of fear that if we stand up too much we’ll get attacked. We are at such a critical turning point and the nonsense being talked about in political spheres just leaves me and many of my colleagues shaking our heads in wonderment.”
Julia Williams, Northern New South Wales
Wednesday July 8
“I was disappointed by the testing you undertook on self-driving cars. You only tested one model car for starters. You could at least have included one that uses a LiDAR scanner for navigation, not just vision. Also, you suggest that improving roads will help. You fail to mention the thousands of kilometres of dirt roads in regional Australia that have no line markings to start with! If a car cannot navigate a dirt road with no marked edges, it’s not fit to be driven in this country.”
Colin Cook
“Neuroscience can offer new models for teaching and supporting all children. Punitive measures such as isolation are outdated and a symptom of a lack of investment in teaching resources, our education system, and educator training. Applying neuroscience in education could transform our children’s lives and our society. It could also help reduce the national shame that is our incarceration of children.”
Jane D, Melbourne
“I agree with Katrina Couzens’ comment regarding migration in Monday morning’s your say. This needs to be promoted more, not the ill informed "population capacity problem” a lot of people have been brainwashed with.“
Daniel J
Thursday July 9
"I found the article on homelessness both very insightful and deeply concerning. The government, to the extent that it pays attention, all too readily looks for simplistic answers to what is a complex problem. Those on the streets are part of a wider problem. How many are barely managing to get by, with some small mishap all that is needed for them to find themselves on the street? How many are sleeping in cars? How many are resorting to crime in order to survive?”
John Maindonald, Berhampore 6023
“Increasing densification of our cities will only increase the heat effect by removing trees and other vegetation due to lack of space. It will do nothing to reduce the demand by an increasing population for all those basic resources required for modern day living – food, water, electricity etc. Australia’s population is located mainly around the coastline – why? Is it because water supply is more available? What about water supply in rural farming areas? Will this increase or decrease? Will food supply increase or decrease?”
Robyn Coghlan
“Let’s face it, the future is China. They have the biggest navy, a formidable airforce and an unmatched army in numbers. Plus, they also lead the world in practically every form of technology. How can America keep saying it’s the most powerful nation on earth?”
Don Alexander
Friday July 10
“The reason for banning young people’s access to social media was because of the harm it was doing. The government is well aware of the harm online gambling does but because of the powerful gambling industry lobbyists, the call for the banning of online gambling is being dismissed as unimportant. Our elected representatives are there to serve the people and protect vulnerable people, not pander to industries that cause financial and psychological harm. All gambling ads should be banned along with the term "gaming”. Gambling is not a game, it is a sophisticated exploitation industry that prioritises dopamine over serotonin.“
Steve Bentley, Camira QLD
"John Howard famously promised Telstra would not be privatised until it was "up to scratch in the bush”. Unfortunately nobody asked him to define those terms, or to explain them, and of course he never did, so they remained vague meaningless statements. Then Telstra was privatised… with the consequences we have witnessed over the years, including Wednesday’s mess.“
Jan Pittman, Gidgegannup WA
"The statements by Prime Minister Albanese regarding China are nothing but panic-mongering to support his unhealthy relationship with the United States. China’s ballistic missile tests are no different to those of the other major powers about whom he never complains. It seems to me one more desperate attempt to justify the totally unjustifiable mess of AUKUS. I used to think better of him, but no more.”
Hans Rijsdijk
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