Honour Legacy
I FULLY support the naming of the pedestrian bridge from Queens Domain to the Hobart Cenotaph in the name of Legacy. This organisation’s volunteers have supported the families of our departed ADF members for over 90 years. I am 60 and they looked after me from age nine. Lest we forget.
Fix Brooker
NO wonder Hobart traffic problems increase. Brooker Highway was built in the 1950s, two lanes each way. Now 60 years later, two lanes each way. And our government spends $1 million on a three-day concert in Launceston because the poor North is missing out on the tourism boom created by facilities in the South. The Government should realise there is an election coming soon, or maybe they do? cations. Can I suggest that a moat and drawbridge might also be in order. What is the end game of such measures? Is to keep the inmates in or the terrorists out?
Sitting on fish fence
LOOKS like Labor is squatting on that floating fence between the shore and salmon farms. Take Labor Leader Rebecca White, assuring Tasmanians that while a Labor Government would insist on strict guidelines, jobs must hold sway. It reeks of former Liberal premier Robin Gray’s “jobs, jobs, jobs” mantra in the forestry conflict of the 1980s. Nowhere did she call on the wealth of statistics on the legacy of salmon farms, many provided by the abalone industry to the Federal Senate inquiry into Tasmania’s aquaculture industry.
The Abalone Council argued to the inquiry its industry was highly vulnerable to ecosystem change. Ab divers lost that one. Who knows? The Liberals may one day envisage a black necklace of salmon farms ringing Tasmania. Does Labor not comprehend that opposition to salmon farms in sensitive areas will play against the Liberals, but may also cost a listless ALP votes. Or, as is often the case with the Labor Party, it won’t cross swords against those in powerful positions.
Saving costs us all
WHEN charges go up, some people look at dirty ways to save. Some begrudge paying tip fees, so they “save” by dumping rubbish in secluded areas, sometimes even in run-off areas where our drinking water comes from. Others save by burning rubbish either in their woodheater or backyards.
In both cases they save while our environment and our health pay. Same with electricity prices. As they go up, so does the use of woodheaters, and our air quality goes down and illegal firewood gathering and trespassing go up. If government and electricity suppliers want more money, they also need to consider the other costs that we will all bear.
Action speaks louder
WE all hear from the government and the powers-that-be all these wonderful promises for education. All the ways to help children. All the plans and strategies to give support to people in need.
What hope do any of them have when there are not only no facilities for education, for children or the disadvantaged, anyone who can do something about it doesn’t care.