Last Post, February 14

Let’s hope there is no repeat performance on the water

I love Johannes Leak’s cartoon yesterday (“Border Insecurity Ward”). This says it all. Are we about to see a repeat performance? God help us.

Herb Smith, Belrose, NSW

I don’t know what Kerryn Phelps, Julia Banks and Rebekha Sharkie were giggling about in your front-page photograph (“Labor’s border bet an election risk”, 13/2). Perhaps the awful reality that they have just gifted Scott Morrison victory at the next election has not yet sunk in.

Frank Pulsford, Aspley, Qld

It’s now official. This LNP Government is a circus. Time to put us all out of our misery

Margaret Ludowyk, Brunswick, Vic

Well, I would say that the Labor/Greens/Phelps circus has just given the Libs a “Tampa moment”.

John Kopcheff, City Beach, WA

Malcolm must be dancing with glee. The Government lost by one vote. His. So his vengeance continues.

John Clark, Burradoo, NSW

Labor says the medivac legislation doesn’t provide a pathway for future asylum-seekers and the Government says it will open the floodgates. Who exactly is it that is encouraging the people smugglers?

Paul Connelly, Gawler South, SA

All I can say is it is a sad day for this country when a washed up journalist who gets elected to the Senate on a handful of votes gets to decide on important and sensitive legislation involving our national security.

Don Smith, Tewantin, Qld

Labor has had a pyrrhic victory. Add border protection to disgruntled pensioners and they are well on the way to snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

Joseph Vagunda, Taroona, Tas

Scott Morrison may yet utter Paul Keating's immortal words “the sweetest victory of all”.

George Fishman, Vaucluse, NSW

The Government’s historic defeat (“First house defeat on legislation in 80 years”, 13/2) is not humiliating. Rather, it is manna from heaven. Bill Shorten has handed the Coalition an electoral gift.

Owen Reid, Dunlop, ACT

I wish the politicians, doctors and other advocates supporting the medivac legislation were as passionate about the wellbeing of indigenous Australians as they are about the asylum-seekers on Manus Island and Nauru.

Riley Brown, Bondi Beach, NSW

So asylum-seekers will be transferred from two offshore islands — Nauru and Manus — to another, Christmas Island. But at least they will know they are in Australia.

David Craze, Applecross, WA