Your say: week beginning July 6

The Conversation's readers weighed in this past week on housing auctions, immigration policy, and autonomous vehicles—but beneath the different topics ran a common thread: frustration with government responsiveness. Letters questioned why social media harms triggered action while gambling's documented psychological damage gets dismissed due to industry lobbying. On immigration, one reader reframed the debate entirely: Australia's problem isn't population size, but urban sprawl and under-invested public transit forcing car dependence. Across the week, readers echoed a larger concern—that political leadership was deferring hard decisions on voluntary assisted dying access, regional telecom gaps, and geopolitical strategy.

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