QUICK VIEWS

DOLE DISAPPOINTMENT

I WANT to express my huge disappointment at the paltry $3.50 increase to the Jobseeker allowance. Given Australia has enjoyed years of economic growth and the federal government can afford tax cuts for middleand higher-income earners, it is miserable and punitive that the unemployed should be treated this way.

Richard Gotch West Hobart

DOB IN A BLUDGER

THE Marketing Man, our Prime Minister, at his finest, with his latest playbook Dob in a Dole Bludger. How low can Sco Mo go?

M. Ross New Town

PALTRY INCREASE

THE $25 per week increase to Jobseeker would hardly buy a round of drinks at one of the infamous Canberra bars.

Ed Sianski West Moonah

NO AFL TEAM DAY

COME on Tassie, it’s time! We need another public holiday! Let’s recognise the sacrifice of all who’ve fought to establish a Tasmanian AFL team. It could be celebrated in the footy months where there are currently no public holidays — July in the North-West, August in the North and (early) September in the South. Time to pull together! Stephen Jeffery

Sandy Bay

SERVICE IS MINE

NO ONE is taking the Anzac Dawn Service away from me. Warwick Hindson Tarleton

CABLE CAR FAIRNESS

WHEN is the City of Hobart going to offer a level playing field for the cable car proposal and treat it as it does any other project, including its own? Tony Donaghy

Ellendale

HOLIDAY HOPES

THOSE in the workforce should be grateful for the holidays they get because when you retire from work (like me) you don’t get awarded any public holidays! Pat Rafferty

Claremont