Parramatta Road foodies show there’s still appetite for hospitality

It’s a fun idea and a worthy quest that Moxham and Masters have embarked upon, visiting all the eateries on Parramatta Road (“The treats of auto alley: strip clubs, $3.50 coffee”, October 5). With ever-worsening Sydney traffic congestion necessitating clearways and highly restricted, expensive or non-existent parking, this once bustling retail and culture strip is now chiefly a thoroughfare to somewhere else. No chance to stop, shop or bop. Car yards, high-rise residential blocks and mega-malls seem to be its fate. So here’s to the restaurants and cafes still offering hospitality with character and class.
Meredith Williams, Baulkham Hills

Aidan Masters and Harry Moxham are eating their way through Parramatta Rd’s food offerings and posting it on their TikTok account.Credit: Max Mason-Hubers

Libs cannot ignore climate change

Will the Liberal Party ever learn? What “matters to families” is more than wages, housing, health and education (“Liberals fear Freya sends wrong signals to the faithful” October 5); these are worthless if the planet we live on is uninhabitable. Climate change is real: we experience its effects every year, scientists have explained it for decades, and we have a diminishing window in which to make amends and give the planet (and us!) the chance of a liveable future. A political party devoid of policies to address and mitigate climate change does not deserve to form government.
Sharon Warner, North Turramurra

The story around Freya Leach is typical of the path of political discourse that has been shown to work by the likes of Donald Trump (“If Freya is the answer, we are asking the wrong question”, October 5) Intelligent fact-based discussion is so very Old World. Today, being the loud person with strong opinions who cares little about facts is the way forward, apparently. Politicians like Leach and Trump care little for contrary opinion and as long as that opinion gets into the media, that is all that matters. Unfortunately, our media seem to have lost the ability to immediately question falsehoods and just let the nonsense pass.
Ross Hudson, Martha (Vic)

Supervising Trump

Correspondent Peter Miniutti asks when Americans will remove President Trump from office (Letters, October 5). The US republic survived the presidencies of both that subversive “crook” Richard Nixon and the “great communicator”, Ronald Reagan. So if the members of the US Congress (which includes the senators) truly abide by the democratic values underpinning their republic, they will keep a close eye on their president and employ the constitutional checks and balances available to them to keep him from exceeding his powers, not simply remove him.
Pasquale Vartuli, Wahroonga

It’s taken a while, but Sun-Herald readers “are no longer shocked by anything Trump does” (Letters, October 5). Had they even half-listened during his election campaign they’d have known Trump’s plans. A contributor tells Americans to “remove him from office”. First question: precisely how? Second question: before or after he negotiates a Middle East peace deal?
Rosemary O’Brien, Ashfield

Pages of history

Your correspondents’ fondness for the paper version of the Herald brings back memories. What excitement there would be when the Sun-Herald emerged from the mail bag, collected when someone had driven to the mailbox on the road near our outback NSW sheep station. The paper may have been a week or more old, but that vintage status never diminished its charms, least of all to me as recipient of the children’s pages. I had a badge of membership from those pages and also connected there with a penfriend in Japan. He sent over a beautiful ornament as a gift. The adults pored over the news and did the crosswords, with everything discussed again over dinner. The Sun-Herald was as close as we got to packaged entertainment, and it was glorious.

Barbara Chapman, South Yarra

Plea for peace

Killing civilians is wrong. Terrorist attacks are wrong. Killing people just because of their faith is wrong (“Manchester attack: Tape marks where line was crossed by attacker”, October 5). What a horrific, terrifying event. Killing civilians in Gaza is also wrong. At least 53 Palestinians were killed in Gaza on this same day, yet there are few articles written for them, identifying and mourning yet more innocent lives lost. The article expresses concern at the ongoing “protests in favour of the Palestinian cause”. I cannot comment on the pro-Palestinian marches being held in the UK, but I know that the marches I have attended in Sydney have all been peaceful and have included a strong Jewish presence, protesting the loss of innocent lives in Gaza. It cannot be stated too many times that the protests are against the actions of Israel in Gaza, and not an attack on people of the Jewish faith. We just want the killing in Gaza to stop. And I wish there were more flowers in Gaza.
Lisa Dixon, Croydon

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