Last Post, December 3

Attempting to indoctrinate schoolchildren is a breach of faith.

Teachers are paid to educate, not indoctrinate. One of the most heinous breaches of faith a teacher can commit is to urge the uncritical acceptance of ideas by young minds.

Peter R. Graham, Sydney, NSW

The depravity of involving children in propaganda is nothing less than corruption of innocence and is morally reprehensible.

Blade Johnstone, Victoria Point, Qld

On reading the letters page, one would think that climate change is a matter of opinion and not nature, and where everyone’s an expert on the science, except the experts.

Henry Herzog, St Kilda East, Vic

There is no barrier to Malcolm Turnbull joining Labor and becoming its candidate for Wentworth. His recent conduct has been a preparation for it.

Gerard Barry, Roseville, NSW

It’s about time sitting MPs who resign from the party that got them elected were required to reimburse taxpayers. In my view, resignation from a party and aligning with another group is a breach of contract.

Bernard J. Cox, Pullenvale, SA

The main reason most MPs are elected is because they belong to a particular party. They have made a contract with those who have elected them. If they decide to leave that party and join another, or become an independent, then they have broken that contract and consequently their seat should be declared vacant.

Jim Bird, Mothar Mountain, Qld

Good points from Caroline Overington and Janet Albrechtsen. All MPs should strive for values, not success. People can spot a man’s juvenile behaviour and poor impulse control, hiding behind “not for the faint-hearted” line. Grown men leading our nation should be able to keep thoughts raised high. Women shouldn’t have to be alpha females such as Helen Clark or Margaret Thatcher to prevail in politics.

Arthur Giannopoulos, Mitcham, SA

Janet Albrechtsen is on to it. (“When the political going gets tough, blame sexism”, 1/12). Thinking of the Australian of the Year, my nomination is counsel assisting the banking royal commission Rowena Orr who performed without fear, without peer and without props in a chamber surrounded by grey suits.

Geoff Ellis, Smithfield, Qld

Jacinta Nampijinpa Price deserves praise for her bravery in highlighting the shocking position of women in her culture, where the law appears to have little power. We should all be horrified at the violence perpetrated on female children “promised” to older men. No one is prepared to protect them, for fear of retribution or acceptance of old cultural ways. Where are the feminists?

Jan Rowe, Norwood, SA