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Elon Musk, motivated by a loss of advertising dollars, has declared the phrase “From the river to the sea” a euphemism for genocide and X users will be suspended. Likewise, the PM should demonstrate leadership, classify the phrase as hate speech and charge the offenders.

Liora Miller, Malvern, Vic

A heartfelt thankyou to Chris Mitchell for the sanity check in Monday’s paper (“ABC shows its ignorance of the Middle East”, 20/11). My only complaint is it should have been on the front page.

D. Solomon, Matraville, NSW

It seems to me that some at the ABC and in much of the media believe what Hamas tells them and question everything Israel says, even when its claims are supported by video. If so, the old saying that the fourth estate, like the fourth dimension, is relative is proved yet again.

Doug Hurst, Chapman, ACT

Sadly the organisers of the School Strike 4 Climate protest likely regard participating students as little more than useful idiots, their sole purpose being to boost numbers at the organisers’ self-serving protest marches. Sadder still is that between skipping school to serve as unthinking foot soldiers for today’s cause du jour and the diet of tripe that reactionary teachers are delivering when students do manage to fit in a day at school, today’s useful idiots will be tomorrow’s uneducated idiots.

Ian Pearson, Barton, ACT

With the PM’s seat nominally Greens, we should be prepared for his responses between now and the 2025 federal election to have a green tinge about them. A strong Greens candidate would have a good chance of unseating a sitting PM.

Clive Powell, Northbridge, NSW

Nick Cater says it all. The PM “must remind new migrants of the unwritten rule that obliges every migrant to leave historical grievances behind. We must abandon the chicken-livered language of diversity and remind ourselves of our greater loyalty to Australia and its people, whose democratic beliefs we share, whose rights and liberties we respect, and whose laws we will uphold and obey.”

Deirdre Graham, Moss Vale, NSW

Australia needs strong leadership in foreign affairs and it seems to have gone AWOL with Anthony Albanese’s backslapping of the Chinese leader while knowing of its aggression towards our navy personnel. Contrast this with Tony Abbott’s “shirtfronting” of Vladimir Putin. A leader cannot be a wimp.

Michael Saul, Scarborough, Qld