Gift from the Queen

So many activities

THERE is much talk about the cable car, but I wonder whether people are aware of the extent of the plans. According to the MWCC website, it includes a plethora of recreational activities. Many would have little chance of success given the changeable and extreme weather conditions, but all would result in destruction of the alpine environment. Trashed mountaintops abound in Australia and around the world and still our government, hand-in-hand with the cable car company, seems hellbent on ensuring our mountain becomes AS a child, there was something very reassuring about the words “Crown land”. I thought Tasmania’s forests and magic places were like gifts from the Queen herself, preserved for us to enjoy and cherish. The inappropriately large-scale development proposed by Hunter Developments for Rosny Hill has shattered my childhood belief in the security of Crown land being preserved for the good of the people. What once belonged to all Tasmanians is being handed to a powerful elite. In a democratic

Poison toll

IN response to John Paull (Letters, May 2), I have always held the belief the poison 1080 has been responsible for the cancerous disease that has taken such a toll on our Tasmanian devil as well as other species killed from secondary poisoning of this disgustingly cruel poison. Let’s hope those responsible don’t decide to use it where the disease free devils were found in a remote area recently. How about this for an idea? Stay away and leave them alone.