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ANDREW Chan and Myuran Sukumaran should not be executed for more reasons than that the death penalty is wrong and that they are rehabilitated role models who are very sorry for their actions.
Our elected representatives ignore the fact that drugs such as heroin are only dangerous when they are unregulated.
It is time for Australia to follow countries such as Portugal and New Zealand, in showing the rest of the world that the sky does not fall in, if recreational drugs are decriminalized.
— LEON COOPER, St Leonards.
Government
I COULDN’T believe when I heard the news.
Our State Liberal government has awarded contracts to interstate companies.
How long ago is it since we heard these same people castigating the former government for doing exactly that?
I doesn't seem to matter which party we put in place they all say one thing and do another.
Has anyone any ideas for getting a government which sticks to its word and works for the people - not themselves.
— GLENNIS SLEURINK, Launceston.
Policy
SO Bass Liberal MHR Andrew Nikolic has questioned an academic, who in a letter to the editor, disagreed with Liberal Party policy.
Mr Nikolic has a habit of ignoring community concerns and regularly deletes comments to his Facebook page. I have commented to Mr Nikolic's facebook page about the effect on Tasmania of issues such as deregulation, the proposed Medicare levy and the lack of funding for schools in Tasmania.
Not only was he clearly not listening to views, he (or his staff) actively deleted any post that was even mildly critical to the Liberal Party position.
Mr Nikolic is no supporter of anyone who has a different opinion to himself.
— MIRANDA JAMIESON, Lenah Valley.
Bellerive Oval
ROB Shaw's article regarding attendances at the cricket World Cup games at Bellerive Oval was spot on (Bellerive Oval is actually a taxpayers oval).
However, you could have added more to illustrate the poor support by Southern Tasmanians.
The Wednesday game (Sri Lanka v Scotland) attracted an attendance of a little over 3500. However, 2000 of those 3500 were admitted free.
The attendance included the bureaucrats and business people whose attendance was sponsored by various firms and government agencies. These attendees probably numbered up to 500 each game.
So how many actually paid to enter the gate?
Not very many.
The senseless, baying of the Southerners is costing this state, including the development of top-line sport, dearly.
It is time our parliamentary representatives stopped pandering to the noisy elements of the Southern population, and centralised specialist facilities in the North.
The continued concentration of government and private facilities in Hobart is having a negative impact upon Tasmanians outside Hobart.
North westerners are being particularly disadvantages.
The state is disadvantaged.
The South is now pressing for a cycling velodrome to be built in the South - to duplicate Launceston's velodrome.
Now that the state is producing world-class cyclists (Richie Porte, Amy Cure, etc) who, incidentally are from the North, the Southerners would now like a velodrome too.
Because most of Tasmania's first-class cricketers come from the North/North-West, perhaps it is time to relocate cricket (Southern) Tasmania to a more central location.
— BOB RICHARDSON, Westbury.