Last Post, November 23

The Grand Mufti is himself being divisive.

The Grand Mufti’s refusal to attend a meeting called by the Prime Minister is itself divisive. It shows how Muslim leaders, and by extension their followers, do not want to share the community’s concerns about extremist terrorists.

Charles Stanford, Bondi, NSW

This is no time for Muslim leaders to get touchy about the PM’s reasonable call to talk. If the tables were turned and say a Christian minority group snubbed a Muslim nation leader’s call to meet, I dread to think what would happen.

Arthur Giannopoulos, Mitcham, SA

Woodville High schoolteacher Regina Wilson is preparing her students for what they will encounter at university (“Teacher’s vow to turn kids off Libs”, 21/11).

Elizabeth Moser, Newtown, Vic

It should come as no surprise that many teachers today seek to indoctrinate our young people into a left-wing political ideology. They themselves were subjected to the same educational regime under the guise of having a social conscience.

Peter Hawks, Albert Park, Vic

Bill Shorten says he intends using taxpayers’ money to subsidise the purchase of batteries (“ALP’s $2000 handout in battery plan”, 22/11). How does one charge flat batteries without the use of electricity? This stupidity has the hallmarks of becoming a combination of the pink batts and schools halls programs.

D. J. Preece, North Wollongong, NSW

How long before Bill Shorten’s battery subsidy increases the price of batteries? Government subsidies are a political crutch.

Neville Wright, Kilcunda, Vic

Labor has joined the Greens and the fairies at the bottom of the garden with its policy to subsidise batteries. How will people living in unit blocks access the solar panels needed to transfer solar power to batteries? How much energy is used to build, charge and dispose of old batteries?

Bob English, Auchenflower, Qld

I hope the government gives into the demands of ABC acting managing director David Anderson and gives the ABC its financial independence. Qantas, Telstra and the Commonwealth Bank are examples of the bright future available to organisations liberated from the need to rely on handouts.

Marc Hendrickx,
Berowra Heights, NSW

ABC acting MD David Anderson is surely joking when he speaks of the ABC’s independence. Whatever independence the ABC might once have had, it has forfeited to the Greens-Left alternative government. The clique in charge of the ABC wants to destroy the system that makes its existence possible.

Frank Pulsford, Aspley, Qld