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It looks pretty obvious Dan Andrews has tickets for the Australian Open Tennis.

Paul Haege, Darling Point, NSW

Those Victorians trying to cross the NSW border to get back to their homes should remind themselves that under the benevolent gaze of the enlightened Chairman Dan, all applicants are equal. It’s just that tennis players and their entourages are more equal than others.

Nick Bretland, Yokine, WA

The Australian Open has become a top seeding event.

Les Shearman, Darlington, NSW

Just cancel the Australian Open because so many players are going to say they didn’t do well because they couldn’t train, so the results are going to be irrelevant anyway.

John Clark, Burradoo, NSW

It’s time to issue all overseas Australians who wish to return home a tennis racket.

Mike Stark, Carine, WA

If the dysfunctional Andrews Government wishes to bring 3000 foreign students into Australia, in addition to the cosseted tennis entourage of 1200, it should be a condition that it must simultaneously charter flights to return the same number of stranded Aussies – and provide quarantine for them all in Victoria.

David Snedden, Cremorne, NSW

The idea that “you cannot overthrow a government by storming one building” (Letters, 16-17/1) is dangerously wrong and contrary to history. Presidential palaces throughout Africa, Asia and South America, not to mention the Winter Palace in St Petersburg, all tell a different tale. The only reason the insurrectionists did not try to storm the Presidential Palace in Washington is because there was no need — they already held it.

Glenn Simpson, Elanora, Qld

Didn’t the Capitol invader with the horns, headdress and face-paint, once audition for the Village People?

John McHarg, Maylands, WA

For someone who has had such a fascination with building walls, it is remarkable that the 45th president of the United States failed to read the writing on them before it was too late.

Ed Sianski, West Moonah, Tas

Lesley Beckhouse (Last Post, 16-17/1) omitted the most used incorrect pronunciation: Day Boo.

David G Nankiville, Brighton East, Vic

Followed closely, Lesley Beckhouse, by Oz Traya, Vunnra Bull and Pardy Dime.

Stephanie Millar, Cremorne, NSW