QUICK VIEWS

ANIMALS KILLED DAILY

WHY do people get sentimental about dead whales when thousands of animals are cold-bloodedly killed every day to satisfy our desire for meat? Richard Upton New Town

BOOK BACK DROP FAIL

IT’S most illuminating watching TV when folk speak from home. Almost all are surrounded by hard surfaces with books the clear favourite. Clearly they haven’ t a clue soft cove rings such as an old sheet would work a lot better. Or don’t they want us to decipher the muffled sounds they create. Gordon Thurlow Launceston

NBN OUT OF DATE

THEN communications minister Malcolm Turnbull’s decision to change fibre-tothe-home to fibre-to-the-node seems a shortsighted political fix whereupon completion the network requires instant upgrade to fibre to the home, as copper wire connectivity from node to home is effectively redundant. Kenneth Gregson Swansea

NESTING CRUELTY

I AM a woman who knows about nesting. I’ve birthed babies and raised them and watched other women do the same. We follow instincts to find safe places, with food shelter, comfort, calm … Cutting down the trees that provide nesting hollows for the swift parrots is madness. Blocking off nesting hollows is cruelty. Tani Langoulant Scamander

NEW ZEALAND, LET’ S GO

BRING it on and let’s get this show in the air (“Tasmania-NZ travel bubble push renewed”, Mercury, September28).

Chris Davey Lindisfarne

RISKY SHOT

THE government is giving “an adrenaline shot to the economy” by loosening credit laws. Global financial crisis anyone? Elizabeth Osborne North Hobart

BIGGEST CHALLENGES

SCOTT Morrison tells the UN the virus is the greatest challenge facing the world. How about climate change? Peter Taylor Midway Point