These letter writers, are not about climate change, it's about hatred for the Coalition and the PM. So, it's not a good thing that the PM embraces EVs but that he must be attacked by his critics for back-flipping. However, it is not just letter writers showing hypocrisy, major media like the ABC and the Guardian have been savage on the PM for 'back-flipping'. Do they never change their minds, these biased journalists?

The take-up of EVs will occur in Australia as supply and the market permits. However, government subsidies for EVs are a sheer waste of taxpayers' money, given that EVs would reduce Australia's emissions by only 2% of its 1.06% of world emissions, ie negligible.

EVs will NOT reduce traffic congestion or operating costs be less when governments have to increase road user taxes to limit congestion and to compensate for loss of fuel excise income. In the meantime, EV drivers have a free ride.

The ludicrous part about governments like that in the ACT ideologically offering financial incentives to buy EVs is that, in effect, it is the less well-off taxpayers who are subsidising the more wealth who can afford EVs, with negligible effect on emissions and zero effect on climate change.

In Foreign Affairs, the US publication, a diplomat related the skills needed for a prospective Vietnamese President to engage with China. Every Vietnamese leader, they said, must get along with China, every Vietnamese leader must stand up to China, and if you can't do both at the same time you don't deserve to be leader. The West finds this duality difficult to grasp.

Our leaders aren't deserving. They ignore diplomacy. They prefer confrontation. They manufacture imaginary enemies. Having brought misery and destruction to the Middle East, now our attention pivots to the Asia Pacific. China is now the perceived 'enemy'. According to the Prime Minister Australian values are under threat. Really? How?

Engagement requires imagination and skill and deep experience in realpolitik. Without it, there is only conflict. Keating is right, Australia has "lost its way" (Canberra Times, November 11).

Apparently peace and stability with people in China, who have a shared history here for the last 220 years, and our largest trading partner, seems too difficult. So our leaders poison the atmosphere with toxic rhetoric. Egged on by 'war' headlines in the conservative press and simplistic observations by hysterically anti Chinese strategic policy institutes, the government chooses conflict over cooperation fostering division rather than unity. Of course we deserve better.

I watched the Press Club interview this week with Laura Tingle and CCP apologist Paul Keating, waiting for him to be asked about his view on China's treatment of the Uyghurs, and was disappointed, but not surprised, that he was not questioned in relation to this.

Was Keating present on the proviso that this question would not arise? I'm sure, that there would have been countless others who would have liked to have heard Keating's response. Laura Tingle is normally a very insightful interviewer, but was a disappointment on this occasion - a tad of ABC leftist bias perhaps?

I walk around Lake Tuggeranong most days. I am always dismayed at the amount of litter there is, especially near the fast food outlets. There are insufficient bins in this area. Every couple of seats should have a garbage bin positioned nearby. There was a bin near the entrance to the dog park on the lake side and this was removed sometime ago and not replaced.Walking around Lake Burley Griffin there are plenty of bins, no fast food outlets and minimal litter.More garbage bins around Lake Tuggeranong please.