Tasmania deserves its own team
SO, the Tasmanian Devils under-16 team win the National Development Championship!
You beauty. Our lads winners against the best in the world!
Beaming smiles on the back page of Monday’s paper. These boys dream of the big stage, even better, representing their home state in the big arena.
They should be able to do that if sanity prevails and a Tasmanian team is brought onto the national and international stage by playing in the AFL.
To those naysayers masquerading as social justice warriors I say to you that success is the truest bulwark to poverty.
This team was successful and as the sociologists will tell you, success breeds success.
Australian rules football is our game in Tasmania, the most authentic expression of sporting competition we have, great to watch as well.
The football stadium at Macquarie Point is the best option for our Tassie Devils and the state of Tasmania in general.
Let’s get it done for us and future generations.
John Herbert Sandy Bay
SPIRITUAL INSIGHT
“Do not ignore the warning signs”, Mercury, July 11, is an excellent article by Greg Barns on burnout.
However, some of the biggest ‘sudden blows’ in life that cause burnout can come from within the parameters of family and kinship relationships – not externally!
And when burnout occurs from the effort of remaining a positive contributor in life, in the midst of constant relationship battles, rather than becoming a silent statistic dependent on government and charitable services, before slipping off the path of life altogether, only the supernatural power imbued in every one of us, and activated through prayer, makes it possible for us to press on and function productively, while dealing with burnout and exhaustion.
This is one of the many reasons why mental health and wellbeing through spiritual insight must one day be accepted as an essential way forward, and be accepted within our secular, pluralistic society.
And the sooner this happens, the sooner the crises within the mental health sector, the hospital sector, and the policing and education sectors will finally begin to be addressed in a significant and sustainable manner. Change ultimately is inevitable! Sue Carlyon
Kingston
AUSSIES ARE PRIORITY
The globe-trotting capers of Albo and Jody have caught the attention of other mere mortals much to the chagrin of Bob Holderness-Roddam.
The speed Albo left Canberra suggests his RAAF VIP Jet was ready on the tarmac while being sworn in as PM.
The PM should know his first duty is to the Australian people – those affected by floods, the homeless, our ever-growing cost of living and the mushrooming Covid outbreaks. Time to be responsible. Barry Campbell
Blackmans Bay
SHAMEFUL SIGHT
After hosting and tour guiding friends from WA last week, they noticed the filth littering our roadsides and even reaching into national parks.
Those responsible for the rubbish and those responsible for cleaning it up, should be ashamed of themselves.
It’s a disgrace.
Or does the government only expect high-end tourism, where guests fly high above the mess in their chartered helicopters!
Mark Taylor Mount Seymour
A GRIM PICTURE
The verges of the Carlton River, Dixon’s Hill and Sugarloaf roads are loaded with the detritus of their throwaway communities.
Too poor to pay tip fees yet fully fuelled and free to hurtle along their blue-metal ribbons of progress thronged with crows.
Undertaker black in their mourning robes, they measure their appetites against the roadkills we humans provide them with in abundance.
No longer murderously ravenous but unflappably obese, their slow and measured strut belies resigned defeat.
So many maimed marsupials. So many mangled animals – left in torn and bloody tatters to be found scattered all around on every carnage corner of these our littered roads; waste zones for we humans and death zones for our fauna; symbols of human progress, egress, hubris, and regress.
They are the roads that take us where we need to go and the roads that lead us home.
Michael McCall Primrose Sands
ENDURING MALAISE
Reading with alarm the story in the Mercury, July 10, I simply can not comprehend how so many ‘facts’ concerning corruption have been obvious since the late 1980s and they, the Australian Federal Police and other Federal Agencies have fallen under the radar.
This circumstance is unacceptable and I wonder what steps will be taken to remedy the malaise? Probably nothing!
Stewart Edwards
Mount Stuart