If you are wealthy, have a high salary position, are a politician, or are juiced in to the Arteries of Finance, you are set for life.  If you are a resident of Struggle Street there is an impenetrable barrier set up to prevent you from reaching the more desirable areas of Australian Life.

In trying to explain why most of us are going down the proverbial gurgler, our Treasurer never once mentioned anything about the overwhelming number of companies who are paying no tax at all. In fact he wants to give them a $50 Billion boost, but its only our money.

Morrison's Motto is, Protect the Tax Dodger and Punish the Children of the Poor. Little wonder that things are going from bad to worse when there is a total lack of Financial Expertise in the management of Australia's affairs. Under this Turnbull Coalition circus, every Foreign Country merely has to buy a raffle ticket and win a piece of Australia, A Winner every time.

Dave Cox, Corrimal

It looks like another spill on the way. Julia Bishop that fine example of morality and loyalty to the four leaders of her party has been involved with secret meetings with members of the Liberal backbench to discuss their dissatisfaction with Turnbull. I don’t think she has the numbers yet but the  discussions have started. So Mr Turnbull, don't take too many holidays this  festive season. You need to watch your back. But she will deny all this as it has never happened, just like she did with Dr Brendan Nelson, Turnbull, Tony Abbott and now Turnbull  again. She wants to be Australia's second female PM. If that happens, God have mercy on us all.           

Matty Ryan, Fairy Meadow

Following the Prime Minister’s comments on December 17, the Australian Monarchist League has been overwhelmed with emails and messages from the general public the general tone of which is: “I’ve always been a Liberal voter, but as long as Turnbull is leader, I will never vote Liberal again.”

It’s not just his comments where he ended with: “Advance Australia. Up the Republic”, but also with many other issues that have angered Liberal voters. However, his avowed support and commitment for a republic has been the straw that has broken the camel's back. In an uncertain world where Australians are focused on putting food on the table, paying bills and keeping a job, we frequently see their parliamentary representatives go off on tangents chasing their own political whims. It’s time they all started to listen to their constituents and not to the Canberra rumour mill.

Philip Benwell, National Chair, Australian Monarchist League

Reply to the letter by Reg Wilding, "PRIVATISING THE ABC" Mercury, December 15. The ABC was once a public broadcaster for all Australians, but not any more. 

The ABC uses it's taxpayer funded $1.1 billion per year to push the pet projects of the green-Marxists and socialist progressives. Such issues include, same-sex marriage, climate change, safe schools, prosecuting Cardinal George Pell, restricting free speech, and promoting illegal immigration.

In 2015, Q&A's producers hand-picked Zacky Mallah to join its audience and knew exactly who he was. Everyone in media, police and legal circles knows that Mallah was a dangerously unstable terrorist sympathiser convicted of threatening to kidnap and kill an ASIO officer after being acquitted of two accounts of planning a terrorist attack. Yes, privatise the ABC or rather have the elite socialists purchase their propaganda machine and save Australian taxpayers more than a billion dollars.

Adrian Devlin, Fairy Meadow