Waive rate penalty

SEEING that the Glenorchy City Council rates will be increasing by 12.5 per cent and this will impact on pensioners and low income earners the most, will the council waive the 10 per cent penalty and interest for ratepayers who will only be able to pay this hefty increase in rates by instalments for this year? Apparently the GCC is con-

Table scraps

MR Turnbull’s policies are already impacting disproportionately on Tasmanians and voters need to look beyond election advertising and spin for perspective. Tax cuts are touted as a positive thing but will inevitably mean more savage cuts to basic services to pay for them, and cuts to services always impact more on the lower paid.

The number of homeless Tasmanians steadily rises, and people trying to jobseek and survive on the inadequate 1990s Newstart are only one unexpected medi-

Walker theft

I AM all for Dark Mofo and Walshie is one of my heroes, but I would like to get my hands around the throat of the low-life mongrel who stole my walker on Saturday, June 23. My young gallery apprentice Zac kindly carried my walker down the stairs that rise from Hunter St to save me going home the long way around the Dark Mofo way to contend with the madding crowd gathering there. However, by the time I slowly descended the stairs shock and surprise to find some low-life had stolen my walker as part of the revelry of the moment no doubt, as a larrikin act of some unknown mongrel. Zac and his family searched for several blocks and found my walker in a dumpster under a red cross at the rear of Mures and returned it to me, its grateful owner.

Surely those associated with this creature should not have been amused. In any event shame on them and all who observed them on that night.