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Gina Rinehart 1, Netball Australia 0. Time for Alinta Energy to front the crease?

Natalie Rutherford, Broadview, SA

Netballers: extinction rebellion or sponsorship extinction?

Trevor Farrant, Hackney, SA

Obviously none of these sponsorship-cancelling sports teams are receiving funding from MENSA.

Jill Elias, Dalkeith, WA

Quick question for the Diamonds netball team. Where do they think diamonds come from? Prospecting, mining? Maybe time for a name change.

Geraldine O’Sullivan, Hawthorn, Vic

Well done, Gina Rinehart, on withdrawing your sponsorship support for the Diamonds. I don’t think the sporting elite understands that money talks and bull dust walks.

Joan Lester, Avalon Beach, NSW

When you look a gift horse in the mouth, don’t be surprised to find it has teeth. Gina Rinehart has sent a timely reminder to virtue-signalling athletes and sporting bodies that, to extend and reverse the metaphor, biting the hand that feeds you is never a smart thing to do.

Burt Bosma, Surrey Hills, Vic

Would it be possible to publish all the articles that Henry Ergas has written for The Australian in a book or online format? It would be wonderful to have for the next generation when they begin to read again, and are taught and tutored correctly in school and at university.

Ian Collins, Caulfield North, Vic

Boris Johnson a possible contender to take over from Liz Truss? British politics is currently a confirmed circus so they might as well have the chief clown.

Peter M. Wargent, Mosman, NSW

Will we see the return of the Boris boomerang and be dealt the Trump card?

Anne Lindsay, Stanthorpe, Qld

Halloween looms, the latest movie franchise should be subtitled Nightmare on Downing Street. Will BoJo return to run amok with Freddy, Michael and Jason?

Mike Fogarty, Weston, ACT

I could respect school teachers bleating about their conditions more if the literacy and numeracy levels of their students wasn’t so tragically low. Amusingly, on the same page as Natasha Bita’s story (“Reading is a struggle for a quarter of our teenagers”, 22-23/10) was a job ad for a commonwealth deputy secretary whose author couldn’t distinguish “principle” from “principal”.

Peter Sesterka, Hawker, ACT