Off-the-book whiz kids

WELL done, Sue Hickey, you showed again you have it to front up on popular or unpopular issues. The Tasmanian Industrial Commission is there to determine any claim. As a past union official, wage claims of 10 or 20 per cent were often the ambit claim. I will never forget when a claim by a union was below what the commission wanted to grant, this is called the expired ambit, and a new ambit lodged.

Government didn’t act

THE Government could apologise and let the family stay and make them citizens of Australia. It is the Government’s mistake for the delay to send the two people back after it was discovered that they do not qualify as refugees, instead of leaving them time to get married and have children living in a community that loves to have them. This is hopefully a one-off.

Bulldog brilliance

A HUGE congratulations to young Callum Thompson of Claremont Bulldogs Junior Football Club for his efforts to win the league’s best and fairest awards three

We need budget smarts

HEAR, hear, to Ruth Forrest and her constructive ideas for better processes through establishment of a Parliamentary Budget Office to assist informed parliamentary debate and decision-making (“Give us the plain truth,” Talking Point, September 5). We desperately need all our politicians to be well informed and for the community to have reliable, independent budgetary information upon which to base consideration of policy options.

Quick council change

AMALGAMATING would benefit all ratepayers (Editorial, September 5). Reduction of 29 to 10 could be achieved in time for the 2022 council elections. An important factor would be to keep all councillors/aldermen out of the early processes to ensure no prevarication. As a historian and researcher, I believe the mechanism to amalgamate still exists, so change could be implemented rapidly and efficiently.