Resource sharing
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IN the mid 1990s West Tamar Council and George Town Council resource shared for a period of time.
It was determined that there was no benefit to either organisation, financially or otherwise.
— ERNEST BENNETT, Beaconsfield.
Flu vaccines
I NOTICED an article in The Examiner (April 14) about the need to have a flu shot.
The Influenza Specialist Group is telling all eligible people to have their shots now.
If people go to their GPs at the moment they will be told to come back again in three weeks’ time because there are no vaccines available in Tasmania until at least the end of April.
Too bad if you get the flu before then.
— JOHN FRANCIS DENNE, Longford.
Gutwein
TASMANIANS should strongly support Treasurer Peter Gutwein for his forthright statement reminding federal Finance Minister Senator Mathias Cormann that he has a responsibility for all Australians as finance minister and not only his home state of Western Australia which has shied at structural reform .
Opposition finance spokesman Scott Bacon is to be congratulate for his bi–partnership support.
— BRIAN KHAN, Bridport.
HCC
HOW disrespectful to the ratepayers of Hobart City Council by the elected Alderman to simply run up $130,000 plus dollars in expenses without the required audit and balancing of those so called expenses.
Perhaps their finance director and corporate governance people should peruse the way we do things here in Launceston, every expense that is incurred by the Alderman must be receipted and validated and that cost is scrutinised by the general manager.
Lift your game Hobart.
— TED SANDS, Launceston.
Business
A FEEL good story from the US.
A young guy, who started his business when he was 19, has taken a 90 per cent pay cut and given it to his employees.
Instead of getting $1 million a year, he is now getting $100,000.
How many business people have ever done that and how many would be willing to?
A starting point would be the CEOs of the four big banks who pocket millions.
Maybe they could take a cut and give back to all their bank customers.
I guess that is like getting pigs to fly.
— GLENNIS SLEURINK, Launceston.
Overseas aid
THERE has been a lot criticism of the last federal budget as unfair.
The government already cut foreign aid by a billion dollars.
The planned further cuts in the upcoming budget would drop aid to its lowest ever level in Australian history – just 0.22 per cent of our national income, or 22 cents in every $100.
These cuts will hurt millions of people.
They could mean that hundreds of thousands of children do not get to go to school or have access to clean water, and that tens of thousands of people do not get access to adequate health care or medical assistance. Yet these cuts also won’t make much difference to the bottom line as aid is such a small part of the budget.
The government should keep its election promise and maintain aid at $5 billion in the 2015-16 budget.
— JEFF MCKINNON, Launceston.
Anzac day
MUCH has been made recently of the corporisation of Anzac Day with the recent removal of an advertisement by a major supermarket chain following considerable public backlash.
What I find equally as crass is the politicisation of this day by any of our elected leaders.
I support Bass Liberal MHR Andrew Nikolic in distributing a pamphlet with information containing a brief history and other information such things as local service times.
I haven't, however, supported for the last two years how this has also become a political advertisement with his name and photos emblazoned throughout.
— M. EVANS, Launceston.
Emergency
THIS was not as you describe emergency overkill.
This unusual event requires diverse skills and resources, not just one agency.
For safe and effective operation including those needed just in case something goes wrong will be on site.
There are many scenarios that can unfold including the highly unlikely but plausible building collapse in such older structures that do not have the newer plumbing standard drains.
— TANYA WINN, Wynyard.
TV ads
I’M NOT a footy fan, however, I can associate with D. Van De Jong in regards to TV ads.
Without them we have no programs, so do as I do, hit the mute button.
Remote controls are an excellent device and the sooner advertisers realise that, perhaps some changes will be made.
— DON DAVEY, Launceston.
Nikolic
David Heckscher (The Examiner, April 14) says "I should actually read Ross Hart's letter" (The Examiner, March 27).
I did, and in its entirety.
I also read Bass Liberal MHR Andrew Nikolic's reply (The Examiner, March 30). It is blatently obvious to readers that Mr Nikolic had in his reply, deliberately culled aspects of what Mr Hart ("one of a growing list of Labor identities") had written.
Mr Nikolic used selected phrases to imply that which was not what Mr Hart had said.
Does Mr Nikolic really believe that the people he represents would not see through this ploy?
— SYD EDWARDS, Launceston.
Past
Martin Stevenson's column in regards to Leo Schofield's apology is wrong when Schofield did apologize publically.
I had actually forgotten what was stated, as no doubt many Tasmanians had until this article, so why keep reminding people?
It was far, far worse when Tasmanians participated in a program called Bogan Hunters, this I hadn't forgotten.
I found this series alone lowered the the images of Tasmanian people.
Schofield possibly spoke in the haste of the moment when funding was stopped.
We all speak at times when let down in haste at some point.
To judge after an apology when the situation should have been laid to rest, is fanning the fire, for what purpose?
I can only assume it is to prompt more negativity.
Or is it to bring out more attacks on Greens leader Kim Booth for defending Schofield?
What we say is how we feel at that given moment, sometimes in anger and other times in sheer disappointment, but many, not all of us, put it right when we have time to reflect on what we stated.
I commend Mr Booth's standing up for someone who contributed to Tasmania based on what he did prior not what he stated after.
To Schofield, your apology for speaking in haste is accepted by me because I understand disappointment.
This should be in the words of many "done and dusted" just as so many issues that are dragged out should be.
— SUSAN GOEBEL, Newstead.
Marketing
FOR some time we have been bombarded with television advertisements listing the marvellous products in Big W stores.
Rather a waste of resources, I would have thought.
When the chase was on for unrestricted shopping in the state, the Tasmanian manager of the parent company indicated that the state would be serviced by a large number of such stores in a very short time.
Launceston has not yet been included on this list.
On the contrary, the city will be "blessed" with another unnecessary supermarket.
My belief is that the defunct Becks site would lend itself admirably to such an enterprise at very little conversion cost.
I would suggest to the company that they get on with it or cease running ads in the North.
— D. PALMER, Newnham.
Hydrocephalus
IT WAS enjoyable reading about those people who were able to get their lives back.
I have had an a/v shunt as well.
The cause is hydrocephalus; water on the brain.
The cause is usually on account of premature birth and I was born six weeks premature in 1943.
Eventually the symptoms manifest as dementia like and it is wonderful when they are alleviated.
I am 71 and recently completed a two year diploma of community services in mental/alcohol and drugs.
Wonderful to get life back and appreciate it (and being able to find the car again and remember where I am and why).
— ANTHONY MCNICHOLL, Mt Eliza, Victoria.