Last Post: Left turn right on Trump

The progressive left media keep telling us Donald Trump is a wildcard and unpredictable, yet in the same breath they tell us what he will do next.

Tim Trotter, Brisbane, Qld

The federal election can be won if Peter Dutton learns to dance like a daggy dad groover, point at no one in the crowd with the appropriate facial expression, deliver long, tiresome speeches littered with startling and barely believable stories and promises, and oversee the manufacture of millions of Liberal Party blue Make Albo Go Away caps.

Don Stallman, Byron Bay, NSW

In the 1950s, Mao instigated the Great Leap Forward to industrialise agrarian China, while today, Australia has Chris Bowen presiding over the Great Leap Backward with his renewable energy policy that is crippling our industrial base.

Peter Winzar, Palm Beach, Qld

It’s true, many commentators who backed Kamala Harris have now joined the Trump bandwagon (Last Post, 12/11). We don’t know whether they can sing but they can certainly change their tune.

Jock Munro, Rankins Springs, NSW

As a letter writer (Last Post, 12/11) suggests, camels in the snow in the Saudi Arabian desert make a stunning image, but graphs showing long-term temperature trends provide the most convincing evidence of climate change.

Karen Lamb, Geelong, Vic

“Trump can achieve more by turning up the heat on Iran” (12/11) sensibly channels Ronald Reagan’s “when you can’t make them see the light, make them feel the heat” strategy.

Steve Ngeow, Chatswood, NSW

Jennie George is right (“Honesty on energy Labor’s only option as election looms”, 12/11). Voters have the right to know energy targets, costs and environmental implications. Similarly, the opposition needs to provide details of its plans.

Amy Hiller, Kew, Vic

Hang on a second, Judith Sloan (“Migrant boom will end in bust come election”, 12/11) is telling us that the government sets migration numbers each year but universities and the bureaucracy just ignore them. Who is running the show here? Obviously not the government.

Ian Gill, Cooroibah, Qld

Australia is often called a “migrant nation”, but human beings are both territorial and migratory, two traits that can, and do, conflict. Arguably, many Australians are increasingly feeling their territory is under threat from what they see as an uncontrolled migratory deluge – and they’re not happy.

Deborah Morrison, Malvern East, Vic