15 December 2025
Dear Editor,
Firstly, Bondi Beach hero Ahmed al Ahmed must be awarded Australia’s Highest Valor Honour for his incredible bravery when disarming one of the terrorists!
Secondly, to those condemning Israel’s all-out war (whilst doing so very much to protect Gazan civilians and Israeli hostages) in response to the October 7th, 2023 attack on innocent Israeli men, women, and children by ineffably heinous barbaric Hamas’s Islamic terrorism and “Leader of The Free World,” the United States of America’s so strong support for tiny democratic Western-society Israel, here is a fact: Israel is one of the very few Middle Eastern countries where gay, lesbian, trans, and other queer people are completely safe from imprisonment, torture, and/or beheading (especially in Palestine)!
Yours,
Howard Hutchins
Victoria, Australia