Last Post: Royal welcomes, Sinwar and an unsurprising ACT election

Those state premiers who were too busy to join the welcoming party for the King and Queen will, no doubt, also be too busy to accept an invitation to Buckingham Palace when they receive one.

John Lake, Mosman Park, WA

The world should be watching closely the Gazans’ response to the death of Yahya Sinwar. Will they rise up against the murderous tyranny of Hamas and the ayatollahs, or mourn the passing of a martyr and threaten extravagant revenge? Any hope of a two-state solution depends upon it.

David Roberts, Wembley, WA

The old expression “good riddance to bad rubbish” seems apt when speaking about the death of Yahya Sinwar, who planned the Hamas invasion of Israel on October 7.

Peter Burke, Mosman, NSW

The lack of comment from the Greens about the death of Yahya Sinwar shows, once again, how morally bankrupt they are.

Alex Cleave, Fremantle, WA

Maybe after Yahya Sinwar’s death it is time for the Opera House to be lit up in blue and white

LM Silbert, West Leederville, WA

Sinwar might be dead, but the main and ultimate game is still the current Iranian leadership.

Peter Wargent, Mosman, NSW

Is there a clearer example of the destructive nature of the UN’s dysfunctionality than the UN bureaucracy’s decades-long defiance of the UN itself in serially failing to implement Resolution 1701 while pretending to do so? But who of its secretaries-general has ever been fired?

Andrew Lake, Edwardstown, SA

It’s hardly surprising that the ACT elects a Labor-Greens government with the region full of pampered public servants and businesses feeding from the largesse of government.

Tony Hennessy, Casino, NSW

Canberra, you have done it again.

B McCusker, Mt Gambier, SA

Twenty-three years and still going. As former Liberal ACT chief minister Kate Carnell observed, the Liberal Party has lurched too far to the right.

Kevin Burke, Sandringham, Vic

Our PM had a tough upbringing. Now he will find it tough bringing up an election win.

Ken Moore, Chapel Hill, Qld

If Anthony Albanese wants to play Monopoly with the big boys, why not? So long as he doesn’t expect a get-out-of-jail-free card.

MF Horton, Sunshine Coast, Qld