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So Alan Joyce wants to save the Great Barrier Reef with Qantas offset scheme to keep fertilisers and pesticides away from the reef. Maybe someone should tell him that his very industry is doing the same harm to the reef and the planet. Elite virtue signalling at it again. Want to save the reef Alan stop business class flights as it has been scientifically proven to be to be the most pollutive form of transport by selling and having less seats per flight.

Merlin, Bentley Park

Netballer refused to wear logo of sponsor – bit hypocritical if you’re still playing sport with that sponsors financial help. Like all sports people, you’re happy to take the big bucks but scream inequality when it suits. I’m not sure equality is really what you’re asking for. Can’t have it both ways. KS, Tolga

Politicians the world over are deliberately creating an energy shortage and they’re doing it for malignant reasons. They need to read some history and see what happens to evil tyrants.

Carole, Edmonton

The left has a set of beliefs that they think gives them the right to destroy the electricity grid, the fuel supply, and the food supply for everyone. Should they manage to achieve their goals, they won’t be able to walk down their streets.

Jasmine, Holloways Beach

Dutton and Taylor have their fingerprints all over the impending rises in our power bills. They knew the state of our energy grid and the wholesale prices of coal and gas were set to explode, yet they kept it a secret till after the election.

Stella. Balaclava

Now that Elon Musk has taken control of Twitter, will we see a return to free speech on that platform? Will that wake our Twitter-mad political class up to all the things they’re currently doing wrong?

Curious, Cairns

Regarding the BoM’s attempted rebrand (CP, 29/10), it’s bad enough that their forecasting has gotten so much worse in the supercomputer era, but it’s unacceptable for them to be squandering our money on their “brand”. They have one job – weather forecasting – and they’re increasingly bad at it. That’s the problem they need to work on. Weather Watcher, Trinity Beach

Two minor tweaks to our legal system would improve our governance at every level. One is a guaranteed right to full free speech regardless of whose feelings might be hurt. The other is the requirement that everyone funded by taxpayers – politicians, public servants, grant recipients, etc – must tell the full and unfettered truth without omission at all times. Naturally our deep state taxpayer money sponges will flatly refuse to make these two simple and obvious changes.

Marco Caruso, Cairns

Good to get the news rates on investment houses are going up somewhere between 15% and 40%. Mum and Dad investors get slugged by CRC so they just tack it on to the expensive Cairns rent so the renters actually pay for it. Good job Bob you just helped drive up inflation further for the people who can least afford it. Kevin, Brinsmead

Re – “Labor broke its promise: Dutton” (28/10). Fact check true, but the LNP is just as bad with the net zero rubbish. The BRICS nations know it’s rubbish and aren’t giving it anything but lip service, so nothing we do matters. Therefore the only sane thing to do is prepare for worse weather and sea level rise by building dams, sea walls, river levees, reliable allweather power stations, and putting transmission lines underground.

Ex-ALP Voter, Cairns

UN Sec-General Guterres CP 28/10 nailed it when he blamed not enough money being spent on renewables 20 years ago, and because of that, we’re now facing a “climate emergency”. Ruth, Freshwater