You also wrote, in an article on page nine, that Senator Fierravanti-Wells expects to give her "valedictory speech after the election with her Senate term to end on June 30".

Does The Canberra Times have psychic powers? Can they see into the future and predict what the election result will be?

As far as I know Senator Fierravanti-Wells is still on the Liberal ticket for the next election at number four and is still in the election race.

Some might say that her number four spot on the ticket is "unwinnable". But let me remind The Canberra Times that at the 2016 federal election then-senator Lisa Singh was demoted by the Labor Party to the bottom of the party ticket to make way for a union boss.

Then at the election the popular senator recorded a huge below-the-line vote and won her seat back.

So let's stop making psychic predictions and allow the voters to decide who they want to represent them in the Senate, no matter what number on the ticket they have been allocated.

I first met Connie Fierravanti (as she then was) when she was Miss ANU Rugby in 1985.

I next met her in 2005 when she became a senator and have seen her a fair bit since.

I like Connie but was disappointed at her dummy spit on being selected in the unwinnable number four position on the NSW Senate ticket by 500 preselectors.

Connie has been a significant player in the NSW Liberal Party's factional politics and knows the game.

I also know Jim Molan well, having first met him in the 1990s. I've had a lot to do with him since. I find Mark Kenny's recent comment that the Morrison government has "once again promoted a less experienced man over a more qualified woman" bizarre.

Connie did a good job as Minister for the South Pacific, being one of the first Australian politicians to call out China, but Jim Molan was an exceptional candidate who came into the parliament after a long and distinguished career in the Australian army. He masterminded Operation Sovereign Borders and brought a wealth of essential military and strategic experience into the federal parliament at a crucial time when it was sadly lacking.

When Jim was placed at number four on the 2019 election ticket he got a record 139,000 below the line votes. As a result the Liberal party selected him to replace Arthur Sinodinos in the Senate in late 2019.

With Australia facing its greatest danger since 1941 we need more Jim Molans in our parliament.

It is not surprising federal budget spending on climate change and renewable energy action is set to fall for years if the Morrison-Joyce government is re-elected (Letters, April 1). The Coalition has not come clean on why such action is not one of the four top budget priorities listed in budget paper No.1.

Is it too much to hope that some major, merit-worthy initiatives in this area of crucial policy making will emerge over the next few weeks? After all, over $13 billion is tucked away in tables in budget paper No.2 for "decisions taken but not yet announced " and "not for publication".

When our local Liberal representative dips into that treasure chest and announces another swag of bribes for fed-up and faltering Canberran voters over the coming weeks, he might tell us more about how a future Coalition government would ramp up its community-level actions concerning climate mitigation and increased access and use of renewables.

Quickly taking steps that would encourage much improved supply and affordability of EVs would be a start.

Progressive independent candidates across the country are showing they are far more switched on about the urgency of increased climate action than current Coalition Liberals who remain completely shackled by National Party intransigence and blinkered views regarding pro-active national responses to climate impacts.

I refer to the latest of a line of extraordinary, wrongheaded and prejudiced letters by the O'Loughlins ("Public Housing mix wrong", April 1). Really and truly, putting it bluntly, it's time they "put up, or shut up".

Public servants are subject to the independent ACT Integrity Commission.

I urge your correspondents to take their complaints to the proper body for investigation as to whether the public servants living in a "nearby street" had any say or influence in the decision on the location of "supportive housing"; as well as whether or not they are carrying out their duties in a party political manner and can be properly described as government "supporters" for doing a job as employees?

Secondly, why would the residents of "supportive housing" increase the risk of "a significant criminal presence"? Class (or physical or mental disability) is no determinant of criminality or even bad behaviour.

I have lived in some very affluent suburbs and have observed neighbours involved with, or afflicted by, murder, domestic violence, fraud, drunk and negligent driving, drug addiction, drug dealing, child sex abuse, graffiti art and vandalism, alcoholism, mental illness, and noisy parties ad nauseum.

I have found many of my public housing neighbours are pretty normal people, some of whom have fallen on hard times. Engage with them, the police if necessary and government agencies; but for goodness sake stop the smear and innuendo of public servants unable to answer back, and disabled people in general.

Former long-serving Tuggeranong Labor MLA, John Hargreaves, is right to highlight the problems with the lack of car parking around Erindale and Zed's Viking Park stadium folly.

But what Mr Hargreaves chose to ignore was two decades of broken promises by his own party and government to fix the long-ongoing problems around parking and roads in the busy Erindale Centre, Wanniassa.

Just one example from Mr Hargreaves' final year as an MLA in 2012 was a media release from Minister Simon Corbell promising to install an additional 1200 car spaces at Erindale, improve walking and cycling connections, build new roads to improve the traffic flow around Erindale and to extend Ricardo St direct to Erindale Drive.

Unfortunately, like many ACT Labor pre-election promises for Tuggeranong, none of these improvements were ever delivered and the promises were quickly forgotten about after the 2012 election.

Today Erindale has fewer car parks than it used to, the restaurant strip remains a complete shemozzle and Wanniassa residents lost about 30 of their local bus stops in 2019. These are the real woes of Erindale.

The Canberra Times of April 1 published the editorial "Big Brother fiddled the climate science", the letter from Jenny Goldie, and letters from Gay von Ess, Doug Steley, Gerry Gillespie and Catherine Moore, all aware of the urgent need for action on climate change.

In contrast, letters from Michael Doyle and Val Spencer are, respectively, comfortably content with the status quo, or suggest that they would like to see more use of coal and gas - the main drivers of global heating and climate change. Freedom of speech, or expression generally, is an excellent principle: it warns us of the dangerous folly embedded in some people's mindsets.

Angela Kueter-Luks (Letters, March 31) looks forward to the repair of more potholes in the ACT.

Our local road subsided and after repeated fix-my-streets requests some bitumen patches appeared.

Three weeks later and the patches have started to disintegrate and separate from the roadway. How can the people doing this work be persuaded to do a better job?

Is Alan Leitch serious ("Well done Will Smith", Letters, March 31)?

By hitting Chris Rock, Will Smith has taught his kids that violence is OK as a first response to taking umbrage at something someone has said. Evidence of this is his son's subsequent tweet: "And that's how we do it."

Taking Chris Rock to task verbally would have been a much more powerful response. People would have concentrated on the words and sentiments, instead of the actions.

Also, it would not have promoted violence as a reasonable response to words that hurt.

After the war is over - hopefully soon - I think the Ukraine should change its name to "the land of heroes".

And the Oscar goes to Bad Will Hunting. What a great example to the world just when needed (not).

Imagine if the bullying and public humiliation of Australia Post's Christine Holgate had been associated with untimely unfortunate health outcomes. That public abuse, thankfully, only cost the government and the taxpayers a swag of money. The wrist watch cost was insignificant compared with the cost of the bullying.

Would anyone knowingly pay the price of a Mercedes for a Kia? That's what is happening with homes. Desperate buyers are offering absurd amounts often far exceeding the actual value of the property. This abandonment of common sense keeps the property market hot.

If the Russians elect a man like Putin as their leader, you might think that is their business and misfortune. But when he orders war against a neighbour that becomes the world's business and a need to change the regime. Good on you, Joe Biden.

The article "Barr more 'optimistic' about Labor win" bought a smile to a dreary morning. Chief Minister Barr commented that he sensed Canberra voters felt the PM was, "on the nose". That was well said given he has been "on the nose" with Canberra voters for years.

The PM is making a big deal about his infrastructure plans. But I've just heard the head of Engineers Australia saying that, thanks to 10 years of neglect, we haven't trained enough engineers to be able to build the projects. More big announcements of big spends which will never happen.

The NSW government is deferring the extension of the Parramatta light rail due to a blowout in costs and labour shortages, saying to proceed would be reckless. Can the ACT government reassure the community the cost of the light rail extension to Woden has not blown out and it is not being reckless?

Paul O'Connor (Letters, March 31) says the ABC was upstaged by Foxtel rolling lists of the budget announcements by the Treasurer. Has he considered, as a major supporter of the LNP, Foxtel might have had advance notice of those announcements?

Already the screams are coming from the government - where is the money coming from to pay for the ALP's $2.5 billion aged care agenda? Do they really think ALP money managers aren't capable of reprioritising Frydenberg's cash splash?