Finding a place for right-wing think tanks

Are you sick and tired of reading or hearing what seems like an endless stream of drivel from right-wing think tanks, especially the one that parades under the banner of the Institute of Public Affairs?

Well, you're not Pat Malone!

A correspondent in the letters section of The Age who, it would seem, has also had a gutful of the IPA has come up with a solution that would relieve readers of the tediously repetitive and sickening task of reading the IPA's regurgitated rubbish in The Age.

Hopefully, other Australian newspapers will recognise the merit in the reader's suggestion and implement it pronto.

Leaping ahead

HERE'S a plan to keep readers of The Age up to date on all the big issues. On social issues, a weekly column by Tim Costello would be great. On the environment, a weekly column by Tim Flannery might give us some hope for our future.

On the economic meltdown, an article by the Institute of Public Affairs every second February 29 should be more than sufficient.

Peter Bainbridge, Maiden Gully