That’s a no

AFTER being inundated with TV ads about insurance, it has brought back a memory of my dear mother. When she was alive, she was pestered about death insurance by an insurance agent who would not take no for an answer. One night this woman knocked on our door and started with her spiel about life insurance. My mother didn’t say “there’s one simple thing I can do”. She said “if my family can’t bury me for love, they will bury me for shell” and slammed the door in her face.

Bank loyalty

I FULLY sympathise with Scott White’s issue about low interest rates for older savers (Letters, March 10). Having been a customer of my proud 200-year-old bank for over 60 years, I have just received my free “over 55” bank account statement. It tells me I have earned interest on my retirement moneys at an interest rate less than I was getting 60 years ago on my then very meagre ordinary savings. Sure, times have changed, but it’s the shorter term, working and younger customers that benefit from low mortgage rates and free transaction fees. They seem to take priority over longer standing customers and I wonder if they will remain quite as loyal over time!

Promise query

IF Bill Shorten wants to save the taxpayers money, instead of ripping it from pensioners why has he promised $1 million of taxpayer money to fund a new abortion clinic in Tasmania? There is obviously very little demand as the previous clinic folded, and would not have left if they were making any money. Surely the Royal Hobart Hospital can handle the matter?