Your say: week beginning September 7

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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