Your say: week beginning October 13

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Monday October 13

AI weapons on the battlefield

“This article reminds me of a famous quote from the movie War Games: ‘The only winning move is not to play’.”

David Stemmer

Going vego for the planet

“Thank you for speaking on the idea of vegetarianism as a viable contributor to the fight against global warming. I have been a vegetarian for 40 years and bore two children without the need for iron tablets and other supplements. And, before you imagine myself and my two daughters as pale -faced, scrawny wimps, we are the tall, strong ones that get looked at when a bag needs to go in the overhead lockers (we oblige!).”

Amanda Gillard

What makes a film Australian?

“Ruari Elkington’s review of The Travellers discusses the Australianness of films like Together, filmed in Australia but set in America and about American characters. If our people and places can be used to make a genre film about Americans, is it ours? I would say that such a film is neither Australian nor un-Australian, but something else altogether. Popcorn.”

Kym Houghton