Last Post: Medicare card limits becoming clearer

Tasmania should give the vote to 16-year-olds – only 16-year-olds. They couldn’t do worse.

Trevor Farrant, Hackney, SA

The Greens approve of 16-year-olds having the right to vote on the basis that they are old enough to pay tax. Why, then, don’t we have a voting system that allows only the taxpayers to vote since it’s the taxpayers’ money that the government is spending?

Rex King, New Farm, Qld

It’s puzzling why the Prime Minister, who flashed the Medicare card, was never asked during the election campaign or after if he had private health insurance (“GP reality slips out of pocket”, 22/7).

P. Reynolds, Gilmore, ACT

Show me how to flash that Medicare card again, Albo. It doesn’t appear to be working.

Michael Afaras, Henley, NSW

Australia, once a proud, free, viable, productive country, is heading towards becoming a kowtowing, obsequious, defenceless satellite state of China with its suffocating communist yoke lashed to the vassal’s shoulders.

Stephanie Millar, Cremorne, NSW

Wow, shorter working hours, more holidays, no tax cuts and a vague mention of productivity – soon you won’t have to work at all to make what you earn now (“Shorter hours, not tax cuts”, 22/7). The Canberra forests, the only place in the country where money grows on trees.

John Mullavey, Howrah, Tas

It is obvious that the so-called productivity roundtable yapfest is a farce. Every Labor MP must be a member of a union and the unions that have no legal constitutional status will be there as well – so Labor and the unions will be in the majority, holding all the cards, and the remaining delegates, including employers, will be blindsided.

Coke Tomyn, Camberwell, Vic

What has Justin Mohamed actually achieved while travelling the world at taxpayers’ expense (“First Nations envoy’s $730k bill”, 22/7)?

Penni Seignior, Mudgeeraba, Qld

Saul Kavonic’s article about the risks of selling Santos is a stark reminder that nothing has been done to revert the deal on the Port of Darwin (“Risks behind Santos deal”, 22/7).

Ralph Hilmer, Randwick, NSW

Given the Newspoll popularity of the only plan put forward by the Liberals since the election, feminisation of the party, it is perhaps time to present plan B (“Coalition support hits 40-year low”, 21/7).

Graeme Garde, Coolum Beach, Qld