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The Liberals urgently need a top marketing team or strategists to promote, sell and communicate their no-net-zero stance. And to formulate a coherent policy to support it (“Leader’s challenge: how to sell the shift”, 14/11).

Roseanne Schneider, Toowoomba, Qld

The squeaks and squeals emanating from the Labor government and big businesses in regard to the Coalition abandoning net zero are to be expected. After all, their “gravy train” may well be sorely depleted.

John Bicknell, Bargo, NSW

The strangest part of Australia’s climate debate is how the Labor Party has effectively abandoned the working class in the name of “saving the planet”. Warnings from industry about rising energy prices and declining reliability have fallen on deaf ears.

Don McMillan, Paddington, Qld

A policy of dumping net zero while keeping Paris is perfect for the modern Libs: neither fish nor fowl.

Bill Buckley, Biloela, Qld

The Liberals should have dumped the Nationals rather than net zero.

Jan Kendall, Mount Martha, Vic

So the LNP is to ditch net zero but kinda not. The old adage on the impossibility of being half pregnant seems to have escaped it. As a practical, non-woke taxpayer, I need some clear reasons to vote for you.

Mike Phipps, Noosaville, Qld

Any journalist worth their salt would know that the part the BBC deliberately left out of Trump’s speech was absolutely critical to its perceived intention. To protest otherwise is disingenuous at best.

Michael Houldsworth, Townsville, Qld

It’s a little highhanded of Australians to excoriate the evils to the climate of substances we extract from the ground, when they’re not sufficiently evil enough for us to cease our continuing reliance on their export.

Rosemary O’Brien, Ashfield, NSW

Henry Ergas’s journey through primary sources and his impeccable reasoning (“Whitlam cult still revelling in leader’s call to rage”) are inspirational, as always.

Leni Palk, Unley, SA

The issue of Indigenous assemblies around the world, raised during the voice referendum, identified that they develop an “us versus them” mentality, fuel polarisation in the community and grow a grievance industry. Is anything in Victoria going to be different?

Peter McKenzie, Gracemere, Qld