Successive failures

Engineers have the answers

PETER Gutwein is quick to blame the council (or anyone else, really) for the gridlock around Argyle and Campbell streets. Instead the blame rests firmly with consecutive governments of both persuasions who repeatedly missed opportunities to move the Royal Hobart Hospital to a greenfield site where the construction associated with the continually evolving needs of a modern hospital could be accommodated without shutting down the city. Consequently we have an ageing structure on an inappropriate site that is excessively expensive to renovate and will continue to inconvenience and frustrate staff and patients and their families and the smooth functioning of the city.

Big Four bosses next

NOW the chair of AMP has resigned due to the Royal Commission into the banks and financial services, surely the overpaid hierarchy of the big four banks must follow suit if any fairness, accountability, trust and equity were to prevail in the banking industry. I wouldn’t hold my breath.

Alcohol has no place in sport

ALCOHOL should be banned from all sporting venues. Football is a sporting event where followers enjoy watching their favourite team play football, not a booze-up for troublemakers drinking to flashpoint.

Penalties don’t match crime

NO ONE can seriously believe there will be harsh penalties applied in the wake of the banking royal commission. ASIC has been next to useless and white-collar crime, and that is what this is, in this country has never stirred up penalties to match what has been done to the victims. Not that the legislators are any better. They have been complicit in keeping people away from judicial oversight too.