Last Post: Super tax plan presents an opportunity for opposition

Pragmatism will prevail. The Nationals and Liberals will get together before the next election.

Ken Moore, Chapel Hill, Qld

A quickie divorce, possibly followed by an even quicker remarriage; love is lovelier the second time around?

Roseanne Schneider, Toowoomba, Qld

Where is the Coalition when a simple, direct promise will win them the next election in a canter: “We promise that a Coalition government will never introduce any unrealised capital gains tax, ever”? Their problems resolved.

Peter B. Alexander, South Yarra, Vic

The “modest” changes to superannuation sounds like a rerun of Anthony Albanese’s modest changes to the voice. Could be another opportunity for a referendum.

Peter McKenzie, Gracemere, Qld

Of all the groups to be affected by Labor’s unrealised capital gains tax, farmers and small businesses are likely to be the hardest hit. Why then have the Liberals and Nationals run dead on the issue?

Tim Trotter, Brisbane

I can’t work out where I get the dollars to pay Labor’s super tax when I have not realised it. I always suspected given the way the Albanese government spends that Labor must believe money grows on trees. Now I know for sure it does.

Tony Brownlee, Sydney

To the debate on taxing unrealised gains, I can only add that the Coalition’s failure to raise meaningful objections to this patently socialist measure, or any of Labor’s many examples of the politics of envy, demonstrates why it deserved to crash and burn in the election.

K. MacDermott, Binalong, NSW

The Nats pointed a gun at the head of the Libs but succeeded only in shooting themselves in the foot. As Americans say, go figure.

Michael Neustein, Bondi Junction, NSW

We’ve had enough of the media serving behind-the-scenes puppetmasters who want to stoke division, and encourage us to take sides and hate each other (“ ‘Free Palestine’ terror in DC: assassination of Jewish diplomats about to be engaged”, 23/5). We see who benefits from the division. Enough. We are one.

Tiffany Daly, Graceville, Qld

Perhaps the time has come to limit preferential voting to three preferences at most (“Voting system costs us”, Letters, 23/5). The system is being gamed by mathematicians.

Joanna Wriedt, Eaglemont, Vic