Water mishandling

WATER restrictions should be attributed only to the inadequacies of the government introduced TasWater business. With more water passing the Bryn Estyn water treatment plant than is ever likely to be needed for Hobart and surrounds, there is no lack of water. The issue is that this over resourced, money making government and council enterprise lacks the ability to produce sufficient fit-for-purpose product. Failure to develop the infrastructure to meet increasing demand, especially in less than ideal climatic conditions, results in us, the customers, not receiving a service commensurate with the price charged.

David Philpott Old Beach

times of seeming limitation on freedom of speech and information. Jacqui implores all sides of parliament to stop and reflect on the losses of our water, food, land and defensive assets to overseas and particularly expansionist Chinese interests. And to take decisions in the interest of all Australians not overseas interests. Current events suggests we need to be ever-vigilant and questioning of government at national, state and local level if the Tasmania and Australia that we love, and is our shared traditional home, is to be retained in a manner appropriate to requirements of long-term Australian citizenry. The cancerous creep of developer dollars and superpower aspirations must not be the only priority of those in so-called power.

Dennis Keats Howrah