Standing with their stupid placards reading 'Stop Ramsay, No Racist Degrees'.

Such juvenile demonstrations show the lack of knowledge or understanding what the university is attempting to do and that is to ensure firstly, learning and then understanding of a subject, in this case Western Civilisation.

Please tell me what is wrong with broadening a students view of today’s totally stuffed up world.

To learn about our past, what transpired to get us to this point is surely relevant in moving forward.

This uneducated rabble obviously does not want to learn the truth  about historical western civilisation and thereby use the socialist philosophy ‘what you don’t know can’t hurt you’ put you head in the sand and stick their backsides in the air and call those that wish to be enlightened “racist”, what a pathetic bunch of losers.

They don’t need to go to University to become socialists, that comes free. Just join the Greens Party and they will educate you in stupidity without incurring HEC’s fees.

John Ernst, Kanahooka

Hello everyone, this is the voice of reason speaking.

Given that Jack De Belin has already pleaded not guilty to the charge of sexual assault it will taken a courageous NRL and/or St George-Illawarra Dragons to call time on his early on his career.

If, for example, Mr De Belin is found not guilty by a jury of his peers I do visualise there will be any number of legal writs served on the NRL and The Dragons.

The only person that can make a judgement call on Mr De Belin’s footy future will be Mr De Belin himself.

DJ Preece, North Wollongong

We saw the ups and downs in the progression of the so called Medivac Bill that came before Federal Parliament late last year and the use of cynical filibustering  to delay a vote on a bill.

But what we saw this year was the triumph of process over cynical manipulation.

At the late stages of the Bill's progress through Parliament, the Labor Party, the Greens and crossbenchers were able to articulate and agree on a bill that was humanitarian in purpose and closer reflected the community's view on the humanitarian treatment of asylum seekers in detention.

This was good work by some of our politicians.

Peter Corkish, Wollongong

Aziz on Manus Island has been awarded a major human rights award by the United Nations and will travel to Geneva to receive it.  

It is wonderful news ... but he is still in detention.

He has endured six years on Manus Island without charge, with his refugee assessment being successful, but his life is still in limbo.

He is a a hero, raising his voice for those who had been stripped of their most basic human rights. Australia needs this man.

Cath Blakey, Wollongong