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If we’re going to have extra days off to acknowledge past cultures, ScoMo, can we at least do it accurately? The first Australians were Negritoes – now extinct. The second Australians were Murraysians – also gone. The third Australians are Carpentarians – still here. Europeans are the fourth Australians and everyone else since 1788 can take a bloody number. One day off should be enough to remember origin stories at employers’ expense. Any more days off should be unpaid holidays – including in the public sector. Higgs, Mudgeeraba

Have to agree with Dominator about empty seats at the MCG for prelim final as I missed out as well. If it’s out of the AFL’s control to fix then they should lobby the State Government to lift seating capacity to 140,000 with another tier on top to make it the largest stadium on the planet. There are blockbuster games and finals played there to justify it, or is it too late now that the MCG has guaranteed grand finals for the next 40 years. It’s probably a lost opportunity by the AFL but I hope I am wrong. Enough

Guthrie sacked from ABC – how she got this job in the first place? Sales person from Singapore – I’m sure there were hundreds of Australians who could do this job quite easily. Wait for the unfair dismissal court case – and millions in compensation!

Notice all screamers for Slater to play come from Qld. Get over it. Wilk

Will Billy get off? By the time this is printed you will know. As a player he did what he had to do and I am not for 1 second agreeing with it. He had the time to wrap Feki up ball and all and drive him over the sideline and that would have been the tackle of the year! Instead he led with his shoulder which is a shoulder charge which is illegal. Now without Billy’s shoulder charge Feki scores. A tryscoring opportunity was taken away via an illegal tackle. So is there ever a clearer reason to award a penalty try? NRL get your act together! Radish

Well double standards again. Fifty-year-old building is called heritage listed and can’t be touched but 124-year-old carousel just gets pulled down. An icon in the area. Gazza

If Slater gets off the whole thing about shoulder charge will be in doubt. That was a shoulder charge & should not get off. G, Varsity Lakes, NRL Supporter for a long time.

I asked an NRL mate, why do 70 per cent of passes that go

forward not get picked up. He said because if the pass comes out of the back of your hand it’s not classed as going forward. I said but the ball moves forward. He said it’s NRL mate they make stuff up hoping smart people following the AFL like you don’t see it.

A Current Affair last night: Please, please treat our aged in resthomes exactly the same. Five star all the way. Glyn

People shouldn’t feel too sorry for any risk-taking that goes wrong, like shark attacks. The second girl only hours later knowing of the first attack goes diving in same area. Someone should push her father in. He should pay for all the culling they’re doing.

Scott Morrison is bragging about increasing the maximum penalties for food tampering. Come on, Scott both you and I know that will do absolutely NOTHING … why?? Because our weak, gutless judiciary will hand out ‘6 months good behaviour’ and ‘immediate parole’ sentences. Increase the minimum not maximum.

The controversial ABC. Most aware folk know its initials really stand for Awfully Biased Cretins. How were they allowed to go so far off the rails at such great expense? Weak, wobbly governments I reckon.

Baby kissing politicians should be banned – the thought of Bill Shorten kissing my baby makes my stomach turn!

Billy Slater’s shoulder charge is exactly how the game should be played, with some agression. How could these sooky do-gooders say it is cruel? I suggest they watch the 1980s State of Origin games. Are NRL players expected to be like AFL and push, shove and hang on to their opposites instead? Get real. Ken.

Barny you expect the Gov to pay for metal detectors in all fruit packing sheds, do you also expect the same to be applied in all bakeries. butchers, fast food outlets as well, and all the millions paid for by the taxpayers? Get real pal. Russle a taxpayer.

Can someone tell me why cars have to stick to 30km/h on Hedges Ave but the Lycra lads can break the speed limit? North.

Bert & Ernie, Noddy & Big Ears, the Muppets ... gay? Who cares? They entertain children. Anything else is immaterial rubbish from smallminded perverts!