Last Post: NAPLAN in a nutshell

Albo is still keeping mum on the date the voice referendum will take place. Can you imagine NASA telling the world in 1969 the moon landing launch would be attempted “sometime in the next two weeks”?

John Dorman, Toowoomba, Qld

Australians frustrated by Albo’s failure to provide details of the voice shouldn’t take it personally. Knowing the details of other unimportant things like interest rates, inflation, unemployment and the price of petrol apparently doesn’t matter either.

T.Trotter, Brisbane

I expect tomorrow’s headline to be: “One in three teachers fails NAPLAN literacy, numeracy”.

Steve Povey, Woolgoolga, NSW

Unfortunately the answer to Paul Kelly’s question “Or is that too hard?” (while we continue to have governments of mediocrity inhabited by career politicians who have had no real life experience) is “yes”.

Rob Parker, Maleny, Qld

What a wonderful article from Janet Albrechtsen in today’s paper!

Dick Crane, Killarney Heights, NSW

Johannes Leak is on the ball with his depiction of Ita Buttrose.

Peter Searcy, Mile End, SA

Ordering $380bn worth of AUKUS submarines to be delivered in 20 years is a bit like ordering thousands of Sopwith Camels after World War I, only to be confronted by Spitfires or Messerschmitts in 1940.

Martin Walton, Upper Kedron, Qld

Albo has given us three options. The first: pay our doubled rates, so we can still live in our own house with no power or food. The second: pay our massive increased power bills so we can turn a light on in our tent. The third: eat food in a tent with no power. Thanks, Albo, I knew we elected you for something.

G. Gapes, Merimbula, NSW

One can only hope that the next head of the ABC can do something about the woeful pronunciation by most presenters and reporters, especially “Australia” where the second A is now an “uh” sound and Ts have become a D.

Penni Seignior, Mudgeeraba, Qld

The fiddle-playing emperor Nero only oversaw Rome’s burning. Now glaciers melt and extinctions run at 1000 times the background rate while our leaders want to be popular and refuse to properly address the global warming driving these changes (“Temperatures rise above freezing at all Italian glaciers”, 23/8). They make Nero look compassionate.

Lesley Walker, Northcote, Vic