Your Say: week beginning June 16

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Monday June 16

No deal

“In the era where the US Defence Secretary is hinting that he has plans to take Greenland by force, are we really sure that we want to commit to AUKUS? And what would that commitment mean for the US if it can be ’reviewed’ at any time, by any administration? Keep the US an ally, but let’s not be a vassal state.”

Alex Craig

Friends elsewhere

“AUKUS came at the expense of a submarine contract with France, the cancellation of which gave us nothing for a whole lot of money. With the US no longer a reliable ally under Trump, we should be sending a clear message that we won’t compromise or bargain on the deal, or scrap it.”

Leigh Scott

Capital gains for public transport

“Housing affordability cannot simply be addressed by reducing regulation to facilitate more development. We should also look at increasing windfall gain taxes, like capital gains, so that governments can finance the public transport infrastructure necessary to support greater density by recovering some of the windfall gains that flow to landowners from the up-zonings that infrastructure enables.”

John Moratelli