Last Post: Our health system must be above suspicion

With the strange attempted watering-down in some quarters of the horrific words of the two Bankstown Hospital nurses, it’s almost becoming a virtue if it transpires they hadn’t murdered anybody.

Rosemary O’Brien, Ashfield, NSW

Australia: socially cohesive one day, multicultural the next. Poor feller, my country.

Terry Birchley, Bundaberg, Qld

What we are trying to achieve, Senator Payman, is for all Australians to have complete trust in our health system and the conduct of its professionals.

Christian Kelly, Brisbane

Senator Payman, there is indeed a double standard. If a Christian had said about Muslims anything resembling what the two nurses had said about Jews, all Australia, including Christian institutions and Islamic religious bodies, would have joined together in its condemnation.

Hadyn Oriti, Port Macquarie, NSW

Muslim groups complaining that the nurses’ treatment has been weaponised should reflect that the climate in which their claims were received was created by people firebombing synagogues and daubing anti-Semitic graffiti about the place.

Patrick Ball, Fern Tree, Tas

How many of the prominent Muslim individuals and community leaders who signed the communique in support of the Bankstown Hospital anti-Semitic nurses are women?

Greg Paull, Yallingup, WA

I felt despair and disbelief after reading the coalition of Islamic groups’ attempt to manipulate the media in relation to the Bankstown Hospital nurses’ online threats. The communique’s objective is to gain support and sympathy for the nurses and to turn the perpetrators of this vile hate speech into victims. We must cease being tolerant of the intolerant.

Kathy Sharp, Neutral Bay, NSW

Incorporating Indigenous culture into the maths syllabus is a sure way of teaching division (“Indigenous culture in maths? Count on it”, 17/2).

Sue Davis, Lindfield, NSW

Big-spending Anthony Albanese and his government are like the benevolent grandfather who takes the family for a big night out and then asks the grandchildren to pay the bill.

John Murray, West End, Qld

As unlikely as it seems, President Donald Trump could well end up looking like Neville Chamberlain at the end of his peace talks.

Frans Bieber, Arana Hills, Qld