Your say: week beginning September 7

From the Editors Published: September 6, 2026 4:49pm EDT Lukas Coch/AAP, The Conversation 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 September 7 “Reading ‘Grattan on Friday: economic life won’t get much better until Australians climb that productivity mountain’, I couldn’t help but think of what I saw Alan Kohler say on ABC TV News (more than once). Kohler considered the poor state of productivity and showed a graph on business investment in it. The graph showed businesses on a kind of capital strike, failing to put new money into their enterprises that would lift (‘hike’!) productivity. No-one else has mentioned this in my news sources.” Kym Houghton “Advertisers and marketers understand that keeping a brand in the forefront of people’s minds is a good strategy for potential sales and influence. Even when there is little substance to ‘products’, if you’ve heard of a brand, you might purchase it ahead of another. One Nation receives a lot of media coverage. There appears to be little political debate in what they offer, save trading insults and hyperbolic, extreme comments.” Stewart Stubbs, NSW Previous post Published: August 30, 2026 Your say: week beginning August 31 Want to write? Write an article and join a growing community of more than 232,500 academics and researchers from 5,608 institutions. Register now