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Australians flock to our gorgeous beaches for solace, fun, and freedom. Regrettably, extreme weather events are knocking down our beachy dreams (“Stealing beauty: La Nina threatens to rip”, July 31). In addition to flood and storm risks, according to Coastal Risk Australia, there is also a “medium confidence” chance that by 2100, water around Sydney will have risen by 0.84 metres, significantly impacting beaches like Cronulla, Brighton-Le-Sands and, at high tide, even half of Sydney Airport. Further, considerable numbers of Australian coastal homes are predicted to be uninsurable as early as 2030 due to high risks of coastal inundation. These are scary propositions that we must confront. So many of the things we love are changing as a result of our own environmental negligence. Our beloved beaches are the envy of the world: we must turn the tide to protect them. Amy Hiller, Kew (VIC)

No hurdle for Jana

Forget Jana Pittman’s amazing athletic feats – juggling six children and working as an emergency care doctor, shows her to be a true superwoman (“Pittman strides ahead as medical doctor”, July 31). John Cotterill, Kingsford

Assange freedom long overdue

Thank you, Peter FitzSimons, for your interview with Julian Assange’s father, John Shipton (“Everything is on the line for Assange and his desperate dad”, July 31). Everything is indeed on the line, but not only for Assange and his dad. It is time we woke up to what it could mean to be an Australian, brave and upstanding, as Julian Assange has been. Does being an Australian mean that we cover for war crimes of the Pentagon? If not, then we must demand PM Anthony Albanese demands the immediate release of this Australian political prisoner. No excuses, free Julian Assange. Stephen Langford, Katoomba

A walk in the Park

Helen Pitt’s dip into Sydney’s Luna Park sent me back to the days when I was younger, so much younger than today and my first visit (“Studio boss swaps Thor for thrills at Luna Park”, July 31). It was the days of the old school yard, the end of the second year (year 8 these days) of high school when a few of us from 2D at Gosford High took the then modern electric train to the city in 1961. I kept a souvenir from that trip, a hand-cut silhouette by one S. John Ross, however, like many “treasures” we keep, time and circumstance result in such memorabilia disappearing from our collection. What hasn’t disappeared is the memory – just part of my profile. Allan Gibson, Cherrybrook

Not catching on

I have been in the same situation as Tom Alderton (“Unmasking the COVID-free ‘superpower’”, July 31). I was staying with family when my daughter-in-law got COVID. She isolated from the rest of us – who tested negative at that point – but, six days later, my son and two of his three children tested positive. As I’d been spending time with them, I decided that the horse had already bolted and it was no use me isolating from them. I was sure that I was going to test positive. I had only had the two vaccinations at that point as I wasn’t yet due for the booster.

I never tested positive and neither did one of my twin 12-year-old grandsons, who shared a bedroom with his two COVID-positive brothers. My twin sister, who lives four hours away, has had COVID. When it comes to trying to figure out why some people get COVID and others don’t, I’d love to know why one twin gets it and the other doesn’t. Don’t we have the same DNA? Marilyn Cornish, Thornleigh



Australians flock to our gorgeous beaches for solace, fun, and freedom. Regrettably, extreme weather events are knocking down our beachy dreams (“Stealing beauty: La Nina threatens to rip”, July 31). In addition to flood and storm risks, according to Coastal Risk Australia, there is also a “medium confidence” chance that by 2100, water around Sydney will have risen by 0.84 metres, significantly impacting beaches like Cronulla, Brighton-Le-Sands and, at high tide, even half of Sydney Airport. Further, considerable numbers of Australian coastal homes are predicted to be uninsurable as early as 2030 due to high risks of coastal inundation. These are scary propositions that we must confront. So many of the things we love are changing as a result of our own environmental negligence. Our beloved beaches are the envy of the world: we must turn the tide to protect them. Amy Hiller, Kew (VIC)

No hurdle for Jana

Forget Jana Pittman’s amazing athletic feats – juggling six children and working as an emergency care doctor, shows her to be a true superwoman (“Pittman strides ahead as medical doctor”, July 31). John Cotterill, Kingsford

Assange freedom long overdue

Thank you, Peter FitzSimons, for your interview with Julian Assange’s father, John Shipton (“Everything is on the line for Assange and his desperate dad”, July 31). Everything is indeed on the line, but not only for Assange and his dad. It is time we woke up to what it could mean to be an Australian, brave and upstanding, as Julian Assange has been. Does being an Australian mean that we cover for war crimes of the Pentagon? If not, then we must demand PM Anthony Albanese demands the immediate release of this Australian political prisoner. No excuses, free Julian Assange. Stephen Langford, Katoomba

A walk in the Park

Helen Pitt’s dip into Sydney’s Luna Park sent me back to the days when I was younger, so much younger than today and my first visit (“Studio boss swaps Thor for thrills at Luna Park”, July 31). It was the days of the old school yard, the end of the second year (year 8 these days) of high school when a few of us from 2D at Gosford High took the then modern electric train to the city in 1961. I kept a souvenir from that trip, a hand-cut silhouette by one S. John Ross, however, like many “treasures” we keep, time and circumstance result in such memorabilia disappearing from our collection. What hasn’t disappeared is the memory – just part of my profile. Allan Gibson, Cherrybrook

Not catching on

I have been in the same situation as Tom Alderton (“Unmasking the COVID-free ‘superpower’”, July 31). I was staying with family when my daughter-in-law got COVID. She isolated from the rest of us – who tested negative at that point – but, six days later, my son and two of his three children tested positive. As I’d been spending time with them, I decided that the horse had already bolted and it was no use me isolating from them. I was sure that I was going to test positive. I had only had the two vaccinations at that point as I wasn’t yet due for the booster.

I never tested positive and neither did one of my twin 12-year-old grandsons, who shared a bedroom with his two COVID-positive brothers. My twin sister, who lives four hours away, has had COVID. When it comes to trying to figure out why some people get COVID and others don’t, I’d love to know why one twin gets it and the other doesn’t. Don’t we have the same DNA? Marilyn Cornish, Thornleigh

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