Readers’ letters on Chinese military vessels circling Australia, Donald Trump’s stance on Ukraine, Woolworths’ cost cuts and the Jackson Pollock painting Blue Poles.
The bean counter in me wonders why China does not just sail into Auckland and take all the dairy produce they currently purchase for free (“PM trips as China ships sail to WA”). They could do likewise in Port Hedland and save billions of dollars a year on iron ore.
The soldier in me knows first-hand how exposed Australia is in the north-west, that the entire ADF could fit into the MCG, and that it takes many support personnel to put one “pair of boots” on the ground.
