Last Post: There’s only one woman for the job

There’s only one person who has the ability to solve the plight of Indigenous people. Jacinta Nampijinpa Price needs to be minister for Indigenous Australians. But there is a whole industry that opposes that thought.

Alex Cleave, Fremantle, WA

Gird your loins and prepare for the visit of the King in a few days. No doubt our ears will be assailed by endless references to the “monARK”.

John Sheldrick, Peppermint Grove, WA

The question is, is our Prime Minister a better disc jockey than politician?

LM Silbert, West Leederville, WA

Nomad owner Al Yazbek says he supports peace. Very strange way of showing it.

Penni Seignior, Mudgeeraba, Qld

Anyone who decides to use a swastika to make any political or social point has thought about it for a considerable time. If you are going to display it you have to wear the consequences.

Murray Horne, Cressy, Vic

Steven Miles, schoolkids don’t vote but a promise of free dinners for their mums and dads will have you winning in a landslide (“ALP serves up entree of blame games with Miles’ debt sandwich grabbed from Greens”, 14/10).

John Dorman, Toowoomba, Qld

Steven Miles has promised primary school students free lunches. Read the small print. Evidently independent and faith-based school students do not need a free lunch. Will there be an exodus from these schools to state schools? And where is this money coming from?

Sheila Duke, Bulimba, Qld

It smacks of political desperation, Steven Miles’s costly debt-fuelled election promise to give all children in state schools a free lunch. In a state as big as Queensland it will be a logistical nightmare. It is the sort of ill-thought-out, reckless spending proposal that l would’ve expected in the past from Daniel Andrews.

Dennis Walker, North Melbourne, Vic

I hope, perhaps six months from now, when all the sound and fury of the current headlines have dissipated and relative peace has been restored to a hurting world, the clever Last Post writers have a few heady and irresistible topics to replace the ones we’ll all gladly farewell.

Rosemary O’Brien, Ashfield, NSW

With the decision on the Blayney mine, we are seeing the voices of a small minority prevailing to adversely affect the livelihoods of the majority and Australia.

David McKenzie, Barcaldine, Qld