Donald Trump or Dan Andrews?

The PM has at least got the leaders right: Putin is the dictator and Zelensky the democratically elected leader.

Neville Clark, Battery Point, Tas

I imagine Britain and the Europeans thought long and hard about rehashing the “coalition of the willing”.

Kim Keogh, Claremont, WA

My thanks and my sympathy to Matthew Condon for his Alfred diary. Like Matthew, I well remember the 1974 Brisbane flood and, remarkably, my grandparents also lived in Rosalie. I hope Matthew and his family were spared the worst of Alfred’s fury.

David Hutchison, Campbelltown, SA

With more than 250,000 homes without power, surely it’s time to do away with overhead power lines in our suburbs. Local councils should be working with energy suppliers to find a way to put the power running down our suburban streets underground.

Doug Oates, Noosa Heads, NSW

I have this cartoon image of a frantic Albo desperately sandbagging his Queensland seats against a looming wipeout by a bespectacled Cyclone Alfred.

Chris Lloyd-Bostock, Connellys Marsh, Tas

Those wind farms will have been working overtime if they’ve not been blown away. And thank goodness for solar panels. I’m sure the sun will emerge soon.

Sheila Duke, Bulimba, Qld

I enjoyed the thought-provoking article by Henry Ergas on Donald Trump’s hubris. I read a chunk to my dear wife, only to learn that she thought I was talking about Daniel Andrews. Fellow Victorians will understand.

John Capel, Black Rock, Vic

“I saw three ships go sailing by,” says a favourite Christmas carol; more than our coast guard or indeed any of our armed services saw when three Chinese warships circled Australia.

Alan Chipp, Hawthorn, Vic

Gemma Tognini nails it once again when she points out the double standards that have been applied by so many of us in relation to two rotten events of our time, Israel and Ukraine (“Blatant hypocrisy proof the world we once knew is gone”, 8-9/3). Rightly, she puts the blame at our defunct acceptance of a subjectivity ideology that has afflicted our moral code.

John Roberts, Indooroopilly, Qld

DOGE. In the US, is it Department of Government Efficiency or Department of Government Extinction?

Ken Moore, Chapel Hill, Qld