Last Post: Are expenses exceeding the rules?

Our Communications Minister seems to be Anika Travels Well.

Susan Peatfield, Brisbane, Qld

The Bureau of Meteorology’s outrageous expenditure and Anika Wells’s excessive airfares are just the latest in a line of troubles robbing the taxpayers.

Penni Seignior, Mudgeeraba, Qld

If the “expenses” incurred by Anika Wells are within the rules, then the rules need changing. If those expenses were added to my tax return they would be rejected by the Australian Taxation Office. If not good enough to be an expense in my business, they should not be appropriate in government.

Tony Hennessy, Casino, NSW

It seems both the Prime Minister and Anika Wells have trouble reading the room and passing the pub test.

Roseanne Schneider, Toowoomba, Qld

Anthony Albanese should look up hubris in his dictionary. It could be coming for him.

Mike Phipps, Noosaville, Qld

Anika Wells’s family travel arrangements may sit within guidelines but are well beyond community expectations.

George Fishman, Vaucluse, NSW

Is there no end to politicians and public servants dipping their snouts into the Treasury trough? Electors should remember these incidents at the next election.

Roy Stall, Mount Claremont, WA

The key factors behind the high productivity from 1970s to early 2000s were competitively priced and reliable energy along with industrial relations conducive towards capital investment (“Mid-year update will be sensible, not a spendathon”, 8/12). We have gone backwards in all these.

Ron Hobba, Camberwell, Vic

At least English cricketers are getting some much-needed match practice.

Tom Smith, Bowral, NSW

If Australia is still looking for another opening batsman, why not Mitchell Starc?

Paul Haege, Darling Point, NSW

So as the solar panels continue to burn, the surrounding air remains highly toxic producing an odious odour and affects wellbeing of those nearby (“Massive solar farm catches fire amid heatwave”, 8/12). Is this likely to happen at any solar farm, and is this progress?

Anne Lindsay, Stanthorpe, Qld

The energy transition is surely the biggest and costliest project ever undertaken in Australia since the original Snowy scheme. Are we not entitled to be given an idea of what the total cost will be?

K. MacDermott, Binalong, NSW