Like them, I am fed up with politicians avoiding fair questions.

I have heard Bill Shorten asked the question as to how he is going to pay for his promises three times in a row and getting the same nonsense reply such as “I am coming to that but let me first say that Tony Abbott can’t be trusted”.

How can Sales and Alberici ever get straight answers without interrupting the vacuous diversive answers being given?

If their attitudes are regarded as rude, let me tell you that there are thousands out here who would have been a damn sight ruder if the answers to our questions were similarly treated as though they had never been asked.

Why must we citizens have to put up with fools trumpeting obvious political drivel when the questions we want answered are ignored?

To protect the ability of Sales and Alberici to do their jobs on our behalf, why can’t the rule be that if a question is not reasonably answered after one prompt, the interview is terminated?

— D.A. CORBETT,

Essendon