Takeover warning

I HAVE always stated that the “takeover” of Macquarie and Davey streets by the State Government could be good or it could be bad — it all depends on what the

Don’t make it ordinary

THE cable car’s tall pylon/s on the edge of the Organ Pipes, the wide, glass-fronted and glary visitor centre along with the cables and bus-sized cabins running in front of them and the three-storey carpark next to the heritage Cascade Brewery all seem destined to detract from the very beauty people are coming to see. Drilling and blasting so close to one of our iconic landmark features doesn’t seem in keeping with Tasmania’s untouched nature image attracting tourists.

Are we making the extraordinary ordinary? How many times in the last three days would it have been closed due to the Roaring Forties, strong each spring and autumn, making it very uncomfortable? Tourists would use the cheaper option of driving/catching a tour bus. I have yet to

Gun law worries

MR Ferguson, if the Hodgman Liberal Government’s gun law proposals are just a storm in tea cup (Talking Point, April 14) why are the architects of the National Firearms Agreement of 1996 (Messrs Howard, Rundle and Fischer) so worried they are speaking out against your government’s plans in local, national and international media?

Do you worry that farmer and former Nationals leader Tim Fischer is right that gun lobby organisations have too much influence in an Australia which has 0.32 per cent of the world’s population yet ranks sixth out of 195 nations on importation of small arms? Why were the members of the Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party of Tasmania informed three weeks before the Tasmanian election of the Liberals’ intention to legislate to relax gun laws when other Tasmanian voters were not worthy of the same consideration?