PLEASE remind me again which country I live in.
I thought it was Australia but it's been a bit hard to recognise lately. Australians had a unique culture that we were known for; now we have to embrace everyone else's for the sake of political correctness and the fear of offending, or being racist.
Racism is a two-way street. What happens when I am offended? Our politicians have no substance and in Victoria we have a judicial system that is a joke. 
It isn't the lucky country any more.
God help my kids and grandkids.
L. Scott, Bangholme
Can't find the peace I CAN'T help but shake my head in utter disbelief every time I hear or read claims that "Islam is about peace" or "Islam is a peaceful religion". Look around the world, all you who insist that it is, and tell us what you see?
Stop kidding yourselves and stop trying to convince us otherwise, when all we see almost daily is violence, death and mayhem from its extremists.
Glen Mason, Frankston South
Mass deception TONY Blair and John Howard say they didn't go into Iraq on a false premise. Their best advice was that there were weapons of mass destruction.
But the deception started with the controlled demolition of the Twin Towers. Some journalists never seem to follow things through to their logical conclusions.
Wayne Nattrass, Mt Gambier, SA
Waking in fright TWENTY years ago we called her a ratbag.
Now, with Australian families frightened in their homes by marauding youth and Islamic extremists dreaming up new ways to kill us in the streets, Pauline Hanson's time is finally here.
I'm scared. Very scared.
Neville Silken, Boronia
It's all a bit awkward A MULTI-race Australia has always worked well. A "multi-culture" Australia is proving more awkward.
Identifying culture concerns as racism is just simplistic.
Troy Ashley, Queenscliff
Who's in charge, Bob?
HELLO, Bob Katter. Now that you've had a chat with the current leader of the Liberal Party, could you please help me out as to which bloke it was you chatted, then shook hands with?
Because Australia's ICPPs (inner-city pampered poodles) and "clever people" like the press gallery must be now be chortling with glee. They can now go to bed after admiring PM "Kevin Turnbull" all day. Then wake the next morning pouring applause upon PM "Malcolm Rudd".
So who is who, please, Bob?
Howard Hutchins, Chirnside Park
Postal vote pointless KNOWING we'd be overseas during the election we applied for postal voting. While in Britain, we were advised by email that the papers had been posted on   June 22, but failed to arrive on time, as far as I know. We were therefore denied the chance to have our say.
Last Sunday, three of us on the journey back to Australia had not voted for the same reason. One person, upon inquiring about the missing papers, was allocated a reference number to quote when the "please explain" letter arrives.
It's not good enough - we've been denied our democratic right. Citizens who are travelling should be given the opportunity to vote online within, say, two days of the election when the voting forms haven't reached them. If we'd been in Outer Mongolia, fair enough, but there is no excuse in this day and age.
Andrew Coogan, Beaumaris
We're a world joke IT is more than a week since the election and we still haven't got a result. We must be the laughing stock of the world.Anne Parsons, Strathmore