Lodown, I agree the response got lengthy, but then there are a number of arguments to make. If you can come up with a better way to put those or a subset forward, I think we'd all be interested to read it.
Letters to the editor come in manu guises, and are often shortened for publication. If the Australian wants to ignore it, fine, I guess we'll then have to ignore the Australian in turn as a reprint of Rex media releases isn't really news, wouldn't you agree, which reduces the value-add of the newspaper to zero.
In any case, discussing the reply here has already served a purpose, so I'm still happy
