Last Post: Builders, bulldozers and changing horses midstream

So Albo says he is a builder. Isn’t it funny how a bulldozer is required to clear away the mess after a building has collapsed? That will happen if we have three years of Labor, and it will require the strength of a bulldozer like Scott Morrison or Peter Dutton to clear it away.

Carryn McLean, Kingsley, WA

Scomo the bulldozer? More like Scomo the bulldozed – buried by premiers and media pile-ons.

John Sumner, Deviot, Tas

We know what happened to Tony Abbott when he said he would change. The Liberal Party is digging its own grave with this rhetoric.

Peter Lauricella, Beerwah, Qld

According to Scott Morrison, giving the lowest-paid workers a $1-an-hour wage increase will be inflationary yet giving a worker on $200,000 a year a $4.50-an-hour tax deduction will not be. A mystery.

Ross Hudson, Mount Martha, Vic

The Liberals’ election launch a mere week before the polls is akin to the military muddle: “Ready! Fire! Aim!”

Tim Fatchen, Mt Barker, SA

Anthony Albanese is Australia’s version of Joe Biden. If Australians don’t want the voters’ remorse that Americans are feeling they should not vote for Labor or the Greens.

Chris Donelan, Quirindi, NSW

A simple question really. Is Richard Marles a commie?

Rod Steed, Booragoon, WA

That the teal “independents” might win seats in two of the richest electorates in the country goes to show that wealth and education are no guarantee of common sense.

Peter Griffiths, Scarborough, Qld

Anyone under 50 is too young to know how disastrous the Whitlam Labor government was. The economic consequences of savage public expenditure only came home to roost a good year after the election. Australia doesn’t need a faux Savile Row PM without the necessary numbers skills. Don’t cry when the new taxes and inflation roll in.

Deirdre Graham, Moss Vale, NSW

A teal independent named Spender, / Off on a climate change bender / Spells karma for Sharma, / Or can he disarm her / With a slightly more right-wing agenda?

Tony Milln, Meningie, SA

The older and wiser one gets, the more one agrees with Abraham Lincoln, who said in 1864 that it’s “not best to swap horses when crossing streams”. We cannot afford a novice government at a time when “steady as she goes” is needed.

Noelle Oke, Albury, NSW