Last Post: Community education will play role in ensuring security

If those supporting anti-Semitism took the trouble to understand events that occurred during the Holocaust, we might have a safer country.

Rex Womersley, Edge Hill, Qld

On the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz this month, it is shocking to observe anti-Semitic Holocaust denial in many countries and on social media, and a widespread deficit of Holocaust knowledge. The importance of speaking up against Holocaust and genocide denial and distortion, and the provision of adequate education to combat it, cannot be overemphasised.

Alan Franklin, St Ives, NSW

Changing Australia Day to the last Sunday in January with a public holiday the following day is an excellent idea (Letters, 29/1) and would surely lessen the Invasion Day focus. It will be a day to celebrate this wonderful country.

Susan Dornan, Beecroft, NSW

If God saved Trump so he could save America, can he go one step further and save Victoria?

Sean Reddan, Subiaco, WA

As I watch the theatrics of President Trump signing his many executive orders, I sense that he must be very pleased to have obtained his crayon licence before leaving school.

Clyde Graham, Bedfordale, WA

10/10 for the suggestion (Letters, 30/1) that the US President should aim to buy Australia instead of Greenland or Panama. Just imagine how our country would power on … and on. Bring it on.

Annie Visagie, South Grafton, NSW

With less use of coal, a gas shortage, the unreliability of renewables and a work stoppage on Snowy Hydro 2.0, it is time we included nuclear in the energy mix.

John Kempler, Rose Bay, NSW

Albo’s big government spending is still the issue on the inflation horizon (“Inflation fall fuels election fight”, 30/1).

Steve Ngeow, Chatswood, NSW

As inflation continues to ease faster than the Reserve Bank expected, surely it’s time to reduce interest rates? In recent years, the bank has consistently been too slow, both to increase rates and reduce them.

Kevin Burke, Sandringham, Vic

Yes, JM (Letters, 30/1), I too am close to 100 and I am very proud of the fact that my father, in 1905, lived in a tent until he quarried limestone with nothing but a pick and shovel, horse and cart, and with the help of a neighbouring builder, built the house that I grew up in. Let’s hear more about these pioneers.

Peter Weste, Sebastopol, Vic