Last Post: Private Harry, RBA dinner tab and first rule of politics

Young Prince Harry is jealously guarding his own privacy so we can read all the details in his next book.

T. Trotter, Brisbane

Oh me oh my. How the tables have turned. And I thought Albo was heading for a three-year honeymoon period. Trouble in paradise.

Ion Morrison, Potts Point, NSW

So the RBA board put up interest rates and then went out to a $25k dinner. No wonder we’re all getting more cynical.

Penni Seignior, Mudgeeraba, Qld

The first rule of politics: beware the politician who promises a new era of trust, integrity and respect in government.

Oleh Butchatsky, Castlecrag, NSW

Let’s hope no one is waiting up for Anthony Albanese’s claim to lift productivity to materialise.

Jim Millett, Kippa-Ring, Qld

When you are accused of misleading parliament, is that what the rest of us call lying?

John Robertson, Dunsborough, WA

Our globetrotting PM, Anthony Carboneasy.

Anna Coates, Mackay, Qld

Methinks the Prime Minister protesteth too much.

Ed Turner, Sinnamon Park, Qld

Did Jim Chalmers include in his thesis for his PhD on Paul Keating those well-remembered words: “This is the recession that we had to have?”

LM Silbert, West Leederville, WA

Jon Gray has recommended we reconfigure our empty office blocks as inner-city housing.

It’s hardly a new idea for Sydney developers, who swiftly acted on premier John Fahey’s rezoning of the CBD way back in 1992.

Norman Moore, Bangalow, NSW

Governments may manage some crises, such as Covid, but they will never control the weather.

Andrew Lockyer, Coromandel Valley, SA

The answer to why we can’t transition to renewable energy is that while it might be clean and healthy, it’s renewable only when the wind is blowing and it’s not cloudy, raining or after dark.

K. MacDermott, Binalong, NSW

Once again Johannes Leak (9/6) illustrates, with superb draughtsmanship and acute observation, that a picture can be worth a thousand words.

John Kidd, Surfers Paradise, Qld

Johannes Leak has once again nailed the situation brilliantly with his cartoon of the orchestration by David Sharaz!

Nick Bretland, Bayswater, WA