Aged walkers
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I’VE had enough of reading about old age and bushwalking. It is nonsense to have an age limit just because older persons might be a burden on fellow walkers.
Anyone could be a burden regardless of their age.
Anyway, old age is not half bad, and with it comes experience and, hopefully, wisdom.
Research your walks, take an EPRIB if you must and enjoy the bush.
Picasso said, ‘‘It takes a long time to grow old’’ so, I’m on my way to many more walks.
- SHEILA BANNISTER, Longford.
Australia Day
CHOOSING Australian made products just got a whole lot easier thanks to IGA Supermarket.
I commend IGA for their double page advertisement in (The Examiner, January 18) featuring all the Aussie made products in their store that are currently at a lower price.
Putting together a whole range of local products (and having them on special at the same time) is what I call really supporting local business and the economy.
Well done and I hope this trend continues.
I’m off to get my Australian made produce right now.
- ROBERT LEE, Summerhill.
Fuel Prices
HERE we go again.
The same questions being asked as to why we in Tasmania are paying so much more than our mainland counterparts for fuel.
TACC general manager Mr Little commented (The Examiner, January 20) that, to the best of his knowledge, there were no sinister motives underlying the state's prices.
I'm afraid I don't believe that.
I have two questions, and I know the first one has been raised many times in the past and I stand to be corrected, but I have never heard a genuine answer as to why there is always such a delay in passing on to the motorists the price of fuel after a drop in the wholesale price occurs.
How come the service stations raise the price overnight when the wholesale price goes up, before using the cheaper priced fuel in their underground tanks first?
Now I know you can say the outlets need to use the fuel up which was purchased prior to the drop, if this is so, why is it that the the fuel stations do not have the same delay when the wholesale price rises?
- DARYL CAMINO, George Town.
Retirement Age
"I HAVE a cunning plan", said Baldrick the Treasurer.
"Convince everyone they will live to 150. That way we can lift the retirement age to 140."
'Brilliant work", said Blackadder the PM. "That solves the pesky pension problem and fixes the Budget crisis."
Thank goodness we have adults running the country.
-DAVID BOARDER, Youngtown.
Age of Retirement
IN the light of the latest statistics known only to the Treasurer Joe Hockey, he has advised that the age of retirement must be raised to 120 years by 2050.
- A. CARTER, Mowbray.
Free Speech
IN the light of Je suis Charlie it appears an accepted community view that there should be no restrictions on what is written or said, unless what is written or said upsets somebody - especially 'me' whoever 'me' is.
So giving the thesis a run: Tasmania is very badly served in the Federal Parliament by Labor Senators who are simply being obstructionist.
Individually they are policy vacuums supported by an Opposition Leader who is the Godfrey's of policy.
Another Tasmanian Senator - she knows who I mean - is so confused by her own sense of 'balance of power' that she will not support any government policy or legislation unless she gets her own personalised quid pro quos and makes a great effort at winning government support by insulting the Prime Minister.
Tasmanians wasted Senate votes last time round, we should make certain we don't repeat the blunder at the next opportunity.
-TREVOR COWELL, Perth.
Cricket
SOME weeks ago Prime Minister Tony Abbott addressed the Australian and Indian cricket teams in Sydney saying, with unabashed pride, that in his student days he couldn't bat, bowl or field but he could sledge.
He may not have winked to David Warner but the Prime Minister did indirectly condoned and supported the ugly and blokey antics that have been played out on the cricket field this summer.
Cricket should be played with an aggressive and unwavering desire to win but let the bat or ball do all the talking, not the bully.
-MARCUS BOWER, Launceston.