Last Post: PM trades green leaf lettuce for butterhead

Albo, Wong and co are seeking to find the middle ground with Israel’s fight against its attackers, but there is none between good and evil.

Doug Hurst, Chapman, ACT

The murderous genocidal aims of Israel’s enemies should send shivers down everyone’s spine, but that can only happen if you have one.

David Morrison, Springwood, NSW

Fearing voter backlash, Albo wants to look as if he’s intensifying his wet lettuce leaf lashings on anti-Semitism and terrorism. His only plan is to change from the Green Leaf variety to the Butterhead.

Timothy Trotter, Brisbane, Qld

Too little, too late and not from the PM, but finally someone from the Albanese government defends the Israeli government’s right to defend its citizens from their mortal enemies. Does that shift have more to do with polling showing a sizeable number of Australians are repelled by activists, street violence and anti-Semitism?

Bruce Collison, Banks, ACT

Even on the anniversary of the October 7 massacre, Adam Bandt could not resist gracelessly criticising Israel. If ugly had a colour, Bandt would display its deepest hue.

Dennis Walker, North Melbourne, Vic

The US Department of Energy is reported to have awarded Iowa State University $1m for research on 3D-printed tungsten parts for nuclear fission reactors. Meanwhile, Australia gives $3.7m to identify the missing link in global movements of multispecies and using innovative musical approaches to communicate the urgency of climate change. Where’s Australia’s taxpayer benefit in this? (“ ‘Absurd research’ gets taxpayer millions”, 8/10)

Clive Arnold, Chelmer, Qld

Reading The Australian’s excellent coverage of the vast amounts of taxpayers’ “ hard-earned” being wasted on an array of highly exotic and questionably relevant research projects leaves one more convinced than ever that this country needs more bricklayers, carpenters and electricians, and less PhDs!

Bill Pannell, Dalkeith, WA

Greg Rose’s article (“Strange bedfellows now united in hatred of the Jews”, 8/10) confirms that the “the left” and “the right” often viewed as a linear concept is in reality a circular concept with the far left and the far right joining each other at the very bottom of the circle, and the often maligned “middle” making up the top half.

Ross Clarke, Eumundi, Qld