Widespread harm
and sense of entitlement” to take root. Winning is everything it seems, principles come after that and the almighty dollar. We Australians no longer know how to lose gracefully, to accept our opponents may have played better or had more skills on the day. Australia has a proud sporting tradition, but those who forged that tradition over the years must now be rolling in their graves over what that tradition now is. It has often been said that sport defines the Australian character. If that is really the case today, the future of our country looks decidedly shaky.
Hard to swallow
I ALMOST choked on my Cornflakes when I read David O’Byrne’s commentary about income inequality (Talking Point, August 31). Tasmanians will not forget Mr O’Byrne sat at the Labor-Green Cabinet table that signed a deal that destroyed forestry jobs and oversaw policies that resulted in 10,000 Tasmanians losing their jobs. Compare that to our record of creating more than 11,000 jobs. The best way to reduce inequality is to ensure everyone has the dignity of a job.
Why smoke?
WITH the cost of cigarettes spiralling upwards again, it’s amazing that anyone can still afford them. Why spend up to $9000 a year on something that will kill you in the I WOULD like to raise my concerns over the anti-Iranian sentiment of the US President. His publicity and actions against Iranians have raised significant issues for all Iranians, not only in America but throughout the world. I see Mr Trump and his team as responsible for inflicting grievances on the basis of the following: a travel ban on top Iranian university researchers while they were visiting families and sick parents in Iran although some of them had Green Cards; and psychological harm inflicted on top engineers, doctors and researchers in different countries for his propaganda against Iranians under the cover that his sentiment is against the Iranian regime. This includes grievances caused to mathematical genius Maryam Mirzakhani, Stanford professor and the first woman to win the Fields Medal, who recently passed away at the age of 40. It includes grievances incurred personally on me as an engineer working in an electricity industry in Australia for 30 years by degrading the status of Iranians on the world stage.