Your say: week beginning August 24

From the Editors Published: August 23, 2026 4:49pm EDT Lukas Coch/AAP, Matt Kaminsky/EPA Every day, we publish a selection of your emails in our newsletter. We’d love to hear from you, you can email us at yoursay@theconversation.edu.au. Monday August 24 “Opposing abortion is opposing a person’s rights, and their quality of life. Altering laws to limit or eliminate a person’s right to abortion is forcing the person to invest their life in a child. This is of course a joy for people usually, but when it isn’t, this idea is an abomination. In addition this initiative always comes from extremists and fanatics in the USA. Some Australians cleave to ancient attitudes about sex, but political manipulation is always USA-inspired foreign interference.” Kym Houghton “This article spells out with complete clarity the disparity created by destructive capitalism and the need to consider our earth for the future. Do we actually want to support the American war machine? Do we want to support data centres in a dry continent? Is it conscionable to do so? As a humanist and ecologist, I would leave the mineral in the ground. Money is simply not worth it.” Isabelle Canty Previous post Published: August 16, 2026 Your say: week beginning August 17 Want to write? Write an article and join a growing community of more than 231,700 academics and researchers from 5,593 institutions. Register now