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VERY recently I was in urgent need of help in the Accident and Emergency department of the Launceston General Hospital.
I sincerely want to thank them all for the excellent treatment, kindness and compassion given to me over several hours that night.
Launceston is just so fortunate to have such a wonderful place.
— D. MOORE, Norwood.
Fishing
I for one will be joining a Recreational Fishers Party if it goes ahead.
Ask any of the thousands of Tasmanians who are recreational fishermen about our fish stacks.
Be it in the river system or coastline, the fish are scarce.
To hear our federal members allow this large trawler to fish our waters and interstate is a joke.
Blind freddie knows this trawler will take what little is left.
— BARRY MILNER, Ravenswood.
Courtesy
I HAVE to use a walker to get where I want and while waiting for a taxi I got talking to a 19-year-old man who had been waiting for 10 minutes.
He said he had an appointment for a job with something called `green’ in it.
I hope he gets one because he was a very nice boy and when a taxi came he went up to the driver and told him that I should have his turn and he would wait for the next taxi.
When the taxi driver took me home I paid him and got out of the car.
I was just going to shut the door when he said, ``Wait, you have dropped a lot of coins on the seat” and he scooped them up and put them in my bag.
He needn’t have done this because I wouldn’t have seen them.
Just two good deeds in a matter of minutes.
— R. WRIGHT, Newnham.
Animals
WHAT an interesting article in The Examiner aimed at primary school students titled, `Animals help Anzacs’.
I certainly had no idea that more than 1600 million animals served in WWI with more than 100,000 of them pigeons.
What an amazing feat by one very famous pigeon `Cher Ami’ who still managed to fly back to its loft after being shot at and wounded with a vital message to help save the lives of some 500 soldiers.
These regular student discussion series that appear in the centre pages each Tuesday are nothing short of excellent for school students and indeed very much older ones as well.
— ROBERT LEE, Summerhill.
Health
HEALTH Minister Michael Ferguson stated (The Examiner, April 20), the latest Commonwealth Grants Commission showed Tasmania was spending more per capita than average on health.
This may be so, but is it enough?
Of course not, in Martyn Goodard’s view we need an addition $234 million minimum.
Mr Ferguson went on to say the GST funding wasn’t tied to health and we need funding for other areas such as education.
May I remind the minister that the old, the infirm, the dead and the dying have very little need for further education.
Many people wonder whether the end plan is for the sick to die and relieve the state government of the financial burden placed upon it by people who have worn their bodies out helping to build this state.
— RON BAINES, Kings Meadows.
Corruption
AS columnist Daniel McCulloch suggests there is room for `corruption’ within local government nominees due to Tasmania being the only state where non-disclosure of donations to individuals is allowed, in cases of payments below $12,400.
Admittedly there is nothing wrong with individuals, business etc. donating to local or state election campaigns but surely there is also nothing to be concerned about making public where or who and how much has been donated.
At all levels of government (in a democracy) transparency is everything - anything less is a recipe for speculation and innuendo towards candidates that in the majority are as honest as the day is long.
Time for change.
— ROBERT LEE, Summerhill.
Black war
EVERY year as Anzac Day approaches I think about the Black War that happened right here in Tasmania.
I think about the Tasmanian Aborigines who died fighting for their country.
I think about their courage and bravery.
From what I know they were difficult to defeat.
The Tasmanian Aborigines fought the people who were taking their land.
I always consider it a small mark of respect to spend some time reflecting this.
I suppose it would be pretty hard for Tasmanian Aborigines today when everybody else’s war dead are honoured but not theirs.
There is no memorial in every little town up and down the Midlands for them.
This seems very disrespectful to say the least.
— PHIL HAMMOND, Kings Meadows.