Land tax burden

I AGREE with Daniel Garlick that property investors will be reassessing their options with the ever-increasing burden of land tax on investment and secondary properties (Letters, October 5). Having just received my demand, it is obvious the levy placed on owners of more than one property is pure gouging. I do hope the Government has plans to invest more into public housing to cover the shortfall in rental accommodation as investors leave the market. Of course, what would be a more sensible option is to remove or substantially lower land tax to ensure private investors still see some benefit in owning rental properties.

Dive wreck inspiration

DON’T be disgusted, be inspired by the Government’s plans to create a dive wreck for Tasmania (Letters, October 5). Take some inspiration from William Shakespeare who presciently summed up the dive wreck process when he wrote centuries ago in The Tempest that “of his bones corals are made, those are pearls that were his eyes, and nothing of him has faded that has suffered a sea change into something rich and strange”. Nowadays the sea change is known as marine colonisation and succession. If you are still not inspired, have a look at the scientific literature on the ecological and economic benefits of dive wrecks. Or take up scuba diving and

Opera House anger

I FELT sick to my stomach and angry to learn the NSW Government allowed advertising of horse races on the sails of our Sydney Opera House. This is nothing short of distasteful graffiti and possibly the thin edge of the wedge. Obviously money talks, and the Government is cap in hand with a billion-dollar industry. What will be next? Coca Cola? Aspirin? Weekly supermarket specials? Train timetables? The Opera House is world renowned as architecturally iconic and belongs to all Australians and is not an advertising billboard.