Last Post, March 15

Schoolchildren should protest out of school hours.

If activists must resort to using children to support their causes, could they insist they do it out of school hours.

L. M. Silbert, West Leederville, WA

Doubtless your readers will decry the student strike as brainwashed kids with no understanding of the issues. Doubtless conservative pollies will do likewise. But the world is rapidly leaving behind the deniers of yesteryear and embracing an urgent effort to halt climate change.

Mark Chapman, Buderim, Qld

Perhaps the striking schoolchildren should be given some sewing lessons so that in 10 years they can set up manual sewing machines and candles in their huts to make shirts for export to China and India.

Janette Harrison, Killara, NSW

With regards to C. Dicker’s letter (14/3), the schoolchildren are not gullible. They are brainwashed.

Mike Mitchell, Ascot, Qld

I can understand why the NSW Opposition Leader is encouraging school students to strike. He clearly does not want the children of NSW to be educated. I think school students get enough brainwashing from their leftist teachers without taking the day off to protest.

Thomas Carrie, Summer Hill, NSW

Now that it suits her, Zehra Duman, the Islamic State bride, wants to come home. Home? Isn’t Syria home? Where is the evidence she has surrendered her beliefs?

Tony Brownlee, Sydney, NSW

Theresa May has become the fall guy in attempting the impossible after the shambles left by David Cameron’s ineptitude in bringing on Brexit without any forethought or game plan. Considering she is at heart a Remainer trying to cobble some sense into it after a misguided election wherein she lost her advantage, it’s amazing how much she achieved, not how little.

Margaret Downie, Armadale, WA

Bill Shorten and Sally McManus should try running a small business with fewer than 10 employees for a year, and accept that their take-home money will be whatever is left at the end of the week. Here’s betting that neither become “fat cat” bosses.

Tony Hennessy, Casino, NSW

I suppose we can assume that Bill Shorten will also be attacking the employer “fat cats” who produce nothing — the unions and public service management.

John Kopcheff, City Beach, WA

Now that the Australia one-day cricket team has defeated India (number one in the world) in India, why would the Australian selectors wish to add David Warner and Steve Smith to a winning, improving and coherent team that wins honestly?

David Iggulden, Wentworth Falls, NSW