Last Post: Bats, cardinals and letter writers named Peter

If the Bracks laws on industrial manslaughter were to be rescinded, I wonder how many people would regain their memories. Just saying.

Peter Weste, Sebastopol, Vic

You cannot drive a car if you have memory problems or amnesia, so how is it you can drive a government or run an economy?

Carryn McLean, Kingsley, WA

I note concern (Last Post, 30/9) about the possibility of catching COVID-19 from a bat if maskless in the bush. But what if the maskless human passes COVID-19 to a bat?

Terence Brennan, Orange, NSW

With COVID deaths now exceeding one million worldwide, China is to be congratulated for only suffering a total of 4634 deaths in February/March and none since.

Eric Willson, Brighton, Vic

Trump vs Biden: A pair of disagreeable schoolboys squabbling over a game of marbles.

John Dorman, Toowoomba, Qld

It seems the biggest alligator in the swamp is The New York Times, with The Washington Post a close second, both hypocritically occupying land seized from Native Americans by force or trickery.

Tony Herbert, Battery Point, Tas

You can bet your boots Cardinal George Pell’s return to Rome is not just a trip down memory lane. And you can also bet the timing of Cardinal Angelo Becciu’s fall from grace is no random coincidence (“Nemesis gone, Pell heads back to Vatican”, 30/9).

Frank Pulsford, Aspley, Qld

How is it that Cardinal George Pell is allowed to fly out of Australia when the rest of us aren’t?

Douglas Golding, Riverwood, NSW

To avoid the scandalous tragedy of good food being wasted through lack of fruit pickers coming forward, let’s employ prisoners who do nothing each day and/or our peacetime defence personnel who do who-knows-what each day.

Barry Lamb, Heidelberg West, Vic

Peter Rathjen’s travel claims (“Groper V-C’s high-flying travel bill”, 30/9) call to mind that great song of yesteryear: Nice Work If You Can Get It.

David Hall, Coombabah, Qld

Does “In the absence of evidence” (Life & Times, 30/9) reveal another quasi-Newtonian law: for every legal amendment for justice there may ensue a (somewhat) equal and opposite injustice?

L. Colquhoun, Invermay, Tas

Quirky or fetish? Letters and Last Post on Wednesday included five correspondents with the Christian name Peter. What’s that about?

Susan McLochlan, Caboolture Sth, Qld