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I favour the idea of using nuclear power provided it is free. There is a free nuclear reactor in the sky. It’s called the Sun. Dave, Twmba

I’m sick and tired of hearing excuses for youth offenders, citing mental health, homelessness, no job etc. Do you think I did not have stress and problems in my life 60 years ago? My father died suddenly when I was nine years old, so money was scarce, home chores many, and we were really stressed out when we sat exams regularly, such as scholarship and year 10 Junior.

Youth crime has been increasing because they know they can get away without harsh punishment.

Jon, Toowoomba

I am so over being told to shop around for a different energy provider. Hello, here in Toowoomba we have no choice. It just means us having to tighten the belt ourselves and be very frugal with what we use. CM, M’Ridge It is sad that one of the MAF wives has to take her fluffy white stuffed toy to bed to cuddle. How many adults even have a stuffed toy which they take away on holidays with them?

Barbie, Toowoomba

Rakir; the Communist Manifesto also demands abolition of all rights of inheritance (p26). So what? Context matters, I’ll give you a hint. Wealth creators are the baddies according to Marx; The proletariat (aka the poor worker) will use its political supremacy to wrest, by degree, all capital from the bourgeois (aka creators of wealth), to centralise all instruments of production in the hands of the state, p26. The (American) Green New Deal uses similar ideology. Barring the Anointed, were all in for a rough ride. The Recalcitrant Pixel, Tmba