Formula one cars and their environs are purpose built

My daughter does indeed learn at her "early learning centre" (or kindy, as we like to call it). She plays with puzzles, dolls, books, crayons, musical instruments and other children. Somewhere in there are colours, numbers and letters, not to mention qualified, caring, professional staff. I am not guiltridden, I am certainly not a superwoman I am a realist. My child learns more than the standard schoolpreparation material. She learns to share, to cooperate, to have good manners, to read other people's emotions and empathise with them, and that other adults care for her. And she has lots of fun. Josephine Carroll Revesby First Hicks, now Hu If Malcolm Turnbull were prime minister, would he be calling the Chinese President to demand the release of Stern Hu ("Rudd rejects call to intervene", smh.au, July 10)? If so, it proves again his judgment is questionable. Maureen Jones North Rocks More than five years for the Coalition government to call for the release of David Hicks, held in Guantanamo Bay without trial. Less than five days for the Coalition Opposition to call for the Government to demand the release of Stern Hu. What a difference a spell on the opposition benches makes to one's view of justice. Mike Clear Cudmirrah Formula for safety The reason 600kilogram formula one drivers survive crashes at more than 200 km/h (Letters, July 10) is that they do not have to deal with 20tonne juggernauts hurtling towards them on the wrong side of the road, colliding headlong into a tree (rather than a deformable safety barrier) or being sliced in two by a train. Formula one cars and their environs are purpose built; the real world is not. Colin Jeffrey Malua Bay Bottle brouhaha Am I the only one struggling to understand the hysteria over bottled water (Letters, July 10)? The logic seems to be that it is wrong and wasteful because Rosetta Stone English nothing is added to it. Add half a kilogram or so of sugar and artificial flavours, and presto, it is a legitimate product. I rarely buy or drink either, but I get nervous when people want to dictate to others what is wasteful. Matt Pralija Neutral Bay Alarm over KKK Your article ("We have infiltrated party: KKK", July 10) was depressing on a number of fronts. First, that white supremacists should still be around, let alone infiltrate an Australian party. Second, that there should be an association with Christianity, when such an ideology is the antithesis of Christian values. Third, the suggestion that to oppose high immigration is to be "far right". My friends who oppose high population growth from high immigration cover most of the political spectrum, but with a tendency to be centre or left. We need low immigration not based on race. It is numbers that count. The 2008 figure of 253,400 for net immigration should be deemed too high by anyone. Jenny Goldie Michelago Terminology of terror Daniel Lewis (Letters, July 10) may be concerned that we cannot say Islam and terrorism in the same breath, but that pales into insignificance when we consider the selfcensorship and fear that surrounds the use of the word in the same sentence as Israel or the United States. Most Western journalists would not dare to suggest that the recent decapitation of Palestinian children by Israeli artillery in Gaza was anything but justified selfdefence, while most of the world saw it for what it was: terrorism in its most reprehensible form. In such a hypocritical political environment, where terrorists seem to be defined exclusively according to their Islamic identity, there is a good argument to decouple the word terrorism from any religious association. Alexander Lane Thornleigh Daniel Lewis seeks to link all terrorist deeds to Islam. Jake Lynch identifies acts of piracy and contraventions of the Geneva Convention perpetrated by Israel ("Politicide or politic: Gillard and the Gaza muzzle", July 10).

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