What about TAFE?

THE call for more tradesmen from Incat boss Tim Burnell seems a bit odd when there is a college set up just for that purpose just up the road ( Mercury, July 31). Is it not training apprentices? Successive state governments have gutted the TAFE system and cry poverty every time it’s mentioned. Haven’t recent events shown how out of touch the management and philosophy is with today’s needs. If you want trained people, cut the mountains of paper crap, stop thinking that the only people who can teach need a degree, and start getting all the trade associations to stop talking and do something.

Don’t argue

WITH reprehensible AFL crowd violence during the 2018 season, and a connection between violence and excessive alcohol consumption, it was proposed that sup-

Match rates to CPI

I CERTAINLY don’t always agree with Hobart alderman Marti Zucco, but I do with his comments about aligning annual council rate increases, to no more than CPI (Letters, August 9). Councils need to understand the fundamentals of budgeting, with the prime outcome being to “live within their means”. Any required additional funding over the CPI rate, should only be progressed where councils can internally find savings initiative offsets. If they can’t, then they’ll have to abide by the CPI increase only. Councils can’t continually expect ratepayers to fund irresponsible budget over-runs and financial mismanagement, for which the ratepayer has no involvement. The diabolical situation pertaining to the dysfunctional GCC is case in point.