Last Post: ALP must be careful with its plans for Future Fund

Should Jim Chalmers find the Future Fund’s stash is insufficient for his current needs, I’ve a couple of grandkids with decent piggy banks.

Rosemary O’Brien, Ashfield, NSW

Paul Keating’s famous one-liner of “never get between a premier and a bucket of money” applies equally well to the Treasurer and the Future Fund.

Ed Turner, Sinnamon Park, Qld

Reference is made to the potential plundering of our Future Fund by those who should know better. But I do remember being told years ago that it was impossible to get ahead in life without access to OPM: other people’s money.

John Sheldrick, Peppermint Grove, WA

Many thanks to Jim Chalmers for reminding us Labor can’t be trusted with other people’s money.

Gordon Thurlow, Mooloolah Valley, Qld

When will politicians understand it is not their money they are showering on their pet projects?

John Colebatch, Kelso, NSW

If the Future Fund had been listed on the ASX, it would be down 25 per cent this week.

Brian Gallery, Mosman, NSW

It would seem Jim Chalmers has yet to finish reading Norman Lindsay’s The Magic Pudding. After the pudding is taken, the culprits are captured and taken to court.

Nick Palethorpe, Turramurra, NSW

So Chalmers is about to raid the fund set up to pay the pensions of public servants, to fund the ALP’s and Greens’ pet projects. Does he honestly think that the taxpayers will not notice this outright move?

GM Seabrook, Leasingham, SA

Labor will blow the Future Fund on ideas that public servants think will work. If they were entrepreneurial, they wouldn’t be in the public service.

James Hearne, Kew, Vic

It is the reverse of Christmas when the Treasurer in red is climbing down chimneys and taking all the goodies that Santa Costello left.

Kon Parris, Albury, NSW

If the Russian President believes Ukraine has no business sending missiles into Russia, he is wrong. Putin instigated the war with Ukraine; he alone is responsible for the death and disablement of thousands of men, women and children, and indeed for the loss of soldiers on his own side. History will record his megalomania and complete lack of compassion.

Claire Jolliffe, Buderim, Qld