Last Post: Election looks like a game of smoke and mirrors

The Coalition election vow to cut the aged-care waiting list to zero (29/4) is as fanciful as Anthony Albanese’s pledge of nine in 10 GP visits bulk-billed by 2030.

Steve Ngeow, Chatswood, NSW

Anthony Albanese’s numerous and skilful displays of smoke and mirrors and deception, cunningly obscuring or concealing the truth, demonstrate that he could have made a marvellous magician.

Alan Franklin, St Ives, NSW

Labor’s sneaky new capital gains tax is called unrealised because nobody has yet realised how much it will cost them.

Tim Trotter, Brisbane

I’d be OK with the acknowledgment of country at business meetings, church services, concerts, civic events and so on if the national anthem were sung as well (“These weaponised words will test our social coercion”, 29/4).

Roseanne Schneider, Toowoomba, Qld

If Labor is against coalmining, why doesn’t it return the royalties it has collected during the past three years?

Kevin Erwin, Keperra, Qld

The US Democratic Party, so far totally impotent in successful ways to handle Donald Trump, is now promising to impeach him. Sorry, you tried that one before and he didn’t disappear in a puff of smoke.

Rosemary O’Brien, Ashfield, NSW

If Donald Trump wants Canada to become a state of the United States of America, first he must agree for his country to join the Commonwealth of Nations and accept King Charles as their head of state.

Tony Wallace, North Mackay, Qld

Is it just me? Reflecting on the repeated billion and multi- billion-dollar promises in this election since Labor and Albo’s inflation, it seems to me a billion dollars isn’t a lot any more.

Stephen Patten, Wavell Heights, Qld

Sometimes a writer just hits the spot with the use of language. Chris Uhlmann’s use of the word “embuggerance” in reference to minor parties and independents talking a lot but never having the burden of having to run a whole country described the situation perfectly (“Gotcha media kills politics of big ideas”, 26-27/4).

Joanna Wriedt, Eaglemont, Vic

Chris Uhlmann is spot-on about “Beijing is no defender of the free world” (28/4). I have always wondered if hypocrite and hypocrisy are words in the China’s languages.

Pamela Owens, Sunshine Coast, Qld