Fixing up the Tamar

PROJECTS are under way to help improve the health of the Tamar Estuary.

TasWater has completed minor works and progressed engineering and investigations as part of the Tamar Estuary River Health Action Plan.

Capital delivery office planning and investigation group leader Andrew Truscott said the works would help improve the water quality of the Tamar.

Further tenders are set to be released for the Margaret Street sewerage pump station and sewer pipe diversion upgrades and preliminary upgrades to the Willis Street pump station are due for completion next month. An engineering consultant will be engaged in March to progress the Tamar Estuary system upgrades.

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THE Morrison Government is a disgrace. Including the federal members of lutruwita/Tasmania who voted down a motion in parliament on Tuesday to meet with Aboriginal families who have lost loved ones in custody.

The Tasmanian Liberal Senators who voted against the motion

were Jonathan Duniam, Wendy Askew, Richard Colbeck, Claire Chandler and Eric Abetz. For Senator Duniam to say that every death in custody is tragic and blame Aboriginal people for being overrepresented in the prison system is an insult.

Since the 1991 Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, 441 plus Aboriginal people have died in custody. Next month will mark 30 years since the report was handed down.

You have to ask why the Morrison government, in particular our Tasmanian Liberal elected MPs, voted against the motion. Deplorable. The system is the problem. Not Aboriginal people.

Sara Maynard nipaluna/ Hobart