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Adam Creighton (“MAGA voters ‘really don’t care’ about stockmarket shocks”, 11/4) gives a sobering account of how the majority of Americans are not impacted by the recent drop in the sharemarket. Definitely not a similar situation here.

Ralph Hilmer, Randwick, NSW

The stockmarket reports make for grim reading and one struggles to find the appropriate adage that describes the carnage initiated by the decisions of President Donald Trump. However, an unrestrained bovine creature in a porcelain vendor establishment quickly springs to mind.

Roy Stall, Mount Claremont, WA

US President Donald Trump must be a fan of the classic movie All About Eve, with actor Bette Davis, as he sits there (in Leak’s cartoon 11/4) at the levers at the amusement park controlling the rollercoaster Big Dipper. Only the President did not emulate Davis’s words from the movie as she did, to warn us about his random tariffs moves: “Fasten your seatbelts, it’s going to be a bumpy night.”

Susan McLochlan, Caboolture South, Qld

The Prime Minister speaks the language of the left: free means someone else pays. They don’t realise this even when they run out of other people’s money.

Leo Oostveen, Chippendale, NSW

Political parties do not control how voters apply preferences. Whatever party policy recommends for preferencing, the voter has the right to preference as they please. That is what democracy is about.

David Cook, Drummoyne. NSW

With some of our best minds warning us of an imminent defence nightmare, what will it take to waken us from our daydream of the beach, the footy and the next holiday?

Michael Houldsworth, Townsville, Qld

In the recent earthquake to hit Myanmar and Thailand, the only building that collapsed entirely in Bangkok was the Chinese-built, oddly named China Railway No.10 in Chatuchak, near the much-loved weekend market.

Christina Faulk, Swinger Hill, ACT

My business loan has not yet received the decrease in interest from the February Reserve Bank decision. Amazingly, with all 12 interest rate rises, my bank was able to put in place the increased costs within 24 hours.

Tony Hennessy, Casino, NSW

Vale Keith Windschuttle, who outshone his peers when it came to “truth-telling” (“Windschuttle, a fierce intellect”, Editorial, 11/4).

Owen Reid, Dunlop, ACT