Clive goes Green, Labor’s Elmer Fudd and 20-20 hindsight

Clive Palmer (Writing’s on the wall: Clive ‘prefers’ Greens”, 8/4) was the press club guest on Thursday. There was an audience; I am flabbergasted.

Mokhles K. Sidden, South Strathfield, NSW

Joe who? (“Abbott promised the Lodge: Hockey”, 8/4).

Con Vaitsas, Ashbury, NSW

Peta Credlin (“Independents must come clean with voters”, 7/4), why would anyone vote for a non-independent whose single issue is to retain power at any cost?

Jim Allen, Panorama, SA

Jesus couldn’t swim either (Last Post, 8/4). Lucky he didn’t migrate to Australia or he would’ve gone belly-up at the first beach visit.

Leo Oostveen, Murarrie, Qld

From Arthur Calwell to Elmer Fudd in 50 years (“Albanese doesn’t seem to have confidence in himself”, 8/4). That’s real progress, ALP.

Peter Black, St Andrews, Vic

It’s time for a new political party: the Hindsight Party. There are more than enough qualified candidates who have all the answers, after the event.

David Thomas, Strathalbyn, SA

I love a soggy country, / A land of sweeping rains, / Of slipping mountain ranges, / Of brown and boggy plains. / I love her cloudy vista, / Her brown and turgid sea, / Her rivers running everywhere / Including over me.

Paul Haege, Darling Point, NSW

Neither Dr Brendan Murphy (“Health has hidden a gender”, 8/4) nor Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is able to define the word woman. Perhaps it’s a matter best resolved by feeling.

Terry Birchley, Bundaberg, Qld

If Dr Murphy or any other top bureaucrats from the federal Department of Health have difficulty responding to the question “What is a woman?”, the answer can be found in any dictionary: an adult female human being.

Bruce Collison, Banks, ACT

Definition of a woman? Women have two X chromosomes and a lot of shoes. How hard is that?

Gary N. Lines, Adelaide, SA

On the transgender controversy (“Sports administrators exposed over policies on trans athletes”, 4/4), are there any women who identify as men playing or wishing to play in men’s sport? Why do we never hear of this?

David Sheehan, Port Lincoln, SA

When a Russian oligarch plunges his silver spoon into his gold bucket of caviar (“Spotlight on Putin’s hidden daughters”, 8/4) and it strikes the bottom, you know sanctions are beginning to bite.

JD Harding, Eastwood, NSW