This point is the thrust of John Mant's letter

Helen Lyons-Riley Melrose ParkFollowing the Storm scandal to the top While the affair of the Melbourne Storm is becoming AWB-like in the areas of who knew what and when, News Ltd's statements or accusations about its own managers are surprising in their vehemence (''Storm row: 'News has ethics of big tobacco' '', July 21). In Bruce Dover's book Rupert Murdoch's China Adventures, to illustrate Murdoch's grasp on the affairs of his businesses he related the story of Murdoch noticing, in one of the many reports he carried with him, the price paid for newsprint by his Cairns newspaper. He rang the boss of the paper, gave him a serve, and told him he should be able to buy newsprint cheaper. If that is the case, would it be possible that Murdoch could not have been aware of salary costs in a far-flung football team? At least, you would think, he would have expected his directors and lackeys in management to have a clue. I suppose he would have seen a salary cap as just another piece of bureaucratic meddling to be circumvented by any means possible. Peter Bourke RockdaleThe process and the reality Sam Haddad's response (''Getting it right on development projects'', July 20) to the assessment of an independent expert, John Mant (''Planner raises potential for corruption'', July 13), of the shortcomings of the government's Part 3A planning process is welcomed. It is a shame he and his boss, the Minister for Planning, do not apply the same level of response to questions raised by communities and individuals in relation to unsustainable residential developments in NSW. What Mr Haddad describes in his letter is a process. What he conveniently disregards is how the Minister for Planning magically selects projects to qualify for the Part 3A state significant site status. This point is the thrust of John Mant's letter, which concludes that the Part 3A process has ''a high potential to facilitate corrupt conduct'' and that the Part 3A planning powers invested with the minister by the current Labor government ''do not provide fairness and due process''. The key Rosetta Stone Hindi issue is access gained by big developers through large political donations. The good news for the public, who don't have the same access powers, is that the state election will be early next year and the Liberal Party is committed to removing the potentially corrupt Part 3A planning powers. Greg Lewis CongewaiChanging faces of average Aussies Who are everyday Australians? Good question, Tessa Newton (Letters, July 22). As we move on, moving forward with our politicians, they no longer include shearers and drovers because they're not average mums and dads, nor in average Australian families - working families, that is - and not small investors either, preferably mum and dad investors. They definitely include battlers, that's for sure, because Alan Jones has them as everyday Australians, but that raises up the quandary of merchant bankers and foreign exchange traders who have blown their dough on dodgy deals. Are they fleetingly everyday Australians by virtue of being battlers at a given time? Average Australians may by now include boat people from the 1970s but definitely not the current ones. According to Tony Abbott and Joe Hockey, they definitely include small business people, upon whose backs (they say) this great country is built. A significant proportion of those persons I've met are tardy in paying their creditors, pay less taxation than employees proportionate to their income and, unless there's something in it for them, are less inclined to civic and community-minded activities. Some in corner stores perpetually maintain broken cash registers, unable to furnish a receipt on request. If they ever become average Australians, then we really will have a revenue crisis. Howard Charles GlebeDead men's bones Why is digging up soldiers' skeletons apparently actively encouraged but the opposite reaction is reserved for their naval equivalents? Tony Doyle WoononaBurqa ban won't protect freedoms The Liberal senator Cory Bernardi offers the French ban as social proof that his call to ban the burqa is the right thing to do (''Senator calls for burqa ban'', smh.au, July 18). The burqa ban has widespread support in France, as did the 1961 massacre of Muslims by Paris police when peaceful demonstrators (protesting atrocities committed by French troops in Algeria) were driven into the Seine or thrown in after being clubbed.

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