Christmas dinner pain
THANK you for your comments Melegueta Mattay (Letters, October 25). I am tired of hearing what an inconvenience people will experience without being able to consume pork this Christmas. Would not the thought of the terror and pain that these animals experience send you off your Christmas dinner. Pigs are highly intelligent sentient beings and are often forced to watch the slaughtering of their own kind until their time arrives. Is anyone aware that the organs of pigs could soon save human lives through transplant? Where is human respect and compassion, or does it all come down to greed?
Leave birth certificates
LEAVE reference to a person’s sex off their birth certificate: this is expressed in legislation proposed by the Greens, supported by Labor, to overcome distress in those few who reject their given sex and seek to change to another. But it is a step too far, and certainly not one to be taken without full public debate. It has occurred to me that there are people who, for a variety of reasons, some work-related, do not want their age revealed. If you can make the case to remove the reference to a person’s sex, then perhaps one could also be made for the removal of the date of birth.
Rail in City Deal
MR Wilkie stated he would like to get federal funding for the northern suburbs light rail project ( Mercury, October 22). If my memory serves me correctly, then prime minister Turnbull when signing the City Deal for Hobart insisted on light rail being part of a deal, making it a requirement before signing, ensuring then-infrastructure minister Rene Hidding was cognisant of the need for light rail, the prime minister
Antarctic runway queries
SENATOR Jonathon Duniam’s comment on Australia’s intended paved runway near Davis Station, Antarctica is interesting in what he doesn’t say ( Mercury, October 24). He doesn’t say that all senators should closely scrutinise the proposal, as Senator Urquhart is.
He doesn’t say that the intended runway is closer to Perth than it is to Hobart and that there is no plan for more than 15 or so annual flights.
He doesn’t say there is no guarantee that any other nation will use the runway.
He doesn’t say that it will require more that 80,000 tonnes of concrete paving.
He doesn’t say what environmental damage it will involve.
He doesn’t say that it will cost more than $1b to construct.
Can Tasmanians think of anywhere else they would like to have $1b spent?
Sue for the climate
NEARLY 900 citizens of the Netherlands successfully sued their government for not taking effective action on climate change in 2015. We might have to do that in Australia to get this culpable government to take this perilous climate crisis seriously.