Last Post: Justice for Lyn, power prices and Gorbachev

Without finding Lyn Dawson’s remains for closure, Chris Dawson’s murder conviction is a case of “you get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law”.

Steve Ngeow, Chatswood, NSW

I’m certainly looking forward to all the free electricity we’ll be getting from wind and solar because my power bill is going through the roof.

Brian Lee, Cairns, Qld

Can glasnost be translated into Mandarin?

Bob Miller, Wembley, WA

So Alexander Downer makes a major blunder and he’s not sacked because he’s a good friend of Malcolm Turnbull and Bronwyn Bishop? Amazing.

Penni Seignior, Mudgeeraba, Qld

The article on former US president Donald Trump (“Trump had details of Macron’s sex life”, 1/9) having secret files on French President Emmanuel Macron’s personal life sounded very saucy and naughty, with tinges of perhaps calling the kettle black.

Susan McLochlan, Caboolture South, Qld

Come on, Albo, get those bone-idle 13-year-olds out of the playground into the workplace. My chimney needs sweeping.

Trevor Farrant, Hackney, SA

A quick summary of the Jobs and Skills Summit: employees want more pay for less work and employers want more work for less pay – and never the twain shall meet. A waste of many people’s time.

Dennis Fitzgerald, Box Hill, Vic

What about a cost-of-living summit instead of a jobs summit in record unemployment?

Paul Haege, Darling Point, NSW

Who would have thought five hours of legal reasoning would make riveting viewing? So much more instructive than Law and Order, CSI or Judge Judy.

George Fishman, Vaucluse, NSW

So the ACTU and Business Council needed a jobs summit to come up with this new agreement? Can anyone imagine the ACTU being involved in a jobs summit called by the Coalition other than to ridicule it, even if they agreed with its outcome?

Murray Horne, Cressy, Vic

Vale Mikhail Gorbachev, a man who brought peace to the world at least for a short time. Now a megalomaniac socialist dictator is trying to relive the glory days.

Ian Rae, Palmwoods, Qld

If the PM and the Shaq are going to audition for The Voice, perhaps a footnote “Gamble Responsibly” might be appropriate?

Stefan Lewandowski, Wirrulla, SA