Last Post: It’s a bit rich for China to prescribe our foreign policy

So when is our Foreign Minister going to come out and remind the Chinese ambassador that he should refrain from interfering in our domestic policy? All Penny Wong has to do is take a leaf from the Chinese playbook.

Stephen Phillips, Ridgewood, WA

Would love to see Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrive in Australia. Can you just see Penny Wong and Anthony Albanese standing in the arrivals area with handcuffs? What an absolute disgrace this Labor lot is.

Barry Preston, Albury, NSW

What’s all this nonsense about capital city temperatures, hovering between 28C and 31C constituting a heatwave? What a lot of weak wimps we’ve become. Once we wouldn’t get out of bed to haul ourselves to the beach until it hit 40C. These weather crises assist the climate change panic, but when temperatures hover around 25C, will it be considered freezing cold or searingly hot?

Rosemary O’Brien, Ashfield, NSW

Aren’t we becoming a bit precious? It’s predicted to be in the high 30s in Sydney, what we called in my youth, in the 1960s, a scorcher – a day when my mother would close up the house to keep it cool. Now it’s run for your life, seek shelter. What’s going to happen to the little darlings when there is a serious situation in their lives?

Alexander Haege, Tamarama, NSW

Albo’s much-vaunted $275 power bill reduction promise may be needed this summer, due mainly to likely blackouts and load shedding.

Paul Haege, Darling Point, NSW

Donald Trump continues to invoke MAGA but what he really wants is MMGA or Make Me Great Again.

Peter Riddington, Forestville, NSW

On a simple level, Donald Trump’s tariffs should work. Americans will buy local products. If Australia had tariffs, we would still have a car industry. We would buy more Australian-made products.

Francis Smith, Caulfield North, Vic

History is littered with examples of dictators who failed to recognise that their use-by date was due to arrive. Why should Russia’s despot, Vladimir Putin, be any different? It is only a matter of time before he is consigned to the trash can of history.

Michael J. Gamble, Belmont, Vic

People who paddle against fossil fuels might have more impact if they weren’t fully clad in, and paddling with, items made from, by or with fossil fuels.

Edwina Menzies, Hackett, ACT