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MEMO ABC haters - better the ABC you know than the FOX you will be left with.
— TONY NEWPORT, Hillwood.
Geelong star
TODD Lambert’s (Letters, June 25) letter of protest against freezer/factory trawlers such as the Geelong Star was a graphic example of the paucity of the arguments presented against them.
There was the usual allusion to the dangers to fishery sustainability such trawlers pose but, as usual, there was a complete failure to acknowledge how well managed Australian commercial fisheries are, or that the Seafish Tasmania, operators of the Geelong Star, can only fish a quota that leaves over 92 per cent of the targeted small pelagic fishery untouched.
The claim that the commercial operation will have no benefit for Tasmania is completely misleading, as the operation is not based in Tasmania, nor fishes Tasmanian waters.
The argument is akin to stating that because mining operations in Western Australia have no benefit to Tasmania then they should be banned.
Then there is the flimsy claim that 90 per cent of ‘people’ are against the operation of the Geelong Star.
The only polling that reflects that have been unreliable online polls.
Even if they were to reflect some sort of reality, then it would be more a statement of how effective campaigns of lies and misinformation are.
Those against the Geelong Star have been very effective at such a campaign.
— GEOFF McLEAN, Launceston.
Plastic Free
IN LIGHT of the article (The Examiner, June 25) about phasing out plastic straws in bars, I just wanted to let you know that July 1 marks the start of Plastic Free July - A Western Australian initiative aimed at reducing the use of single use plastic.
I have signed up again this year to give it a go but am aiming to go totally plastic free.
Yes I think it is possible.
More importantly I will be trying to get the word around to schools businesses and households.
The WA website has some great media info and an abundance of information as to how to go 'plastic free'.
I am sure more people would give it a go if practical information is provided.
Having worked in Marine Biol Education I have seen more than enough evidence to reduce plastic use.
— TRISH HAEUSLER, Launceston.
Tram museum
LIKE Judy Poynter my heart also sank when I heard what had happened to the volunteers at the Tram Museum.
Especially John Binns, his 20 years of knowledge and devotion to the restoring of so many trams, he and his fellow workers have achieved so much.
I am very passionate about the trams as I rode the last tram in December 1952 and hope to one day see a tram running again in Launceston as a tourist attraction.
It's disgusting that security personnel have been employed to restrict the access to the workers and entering the workshop.
If that's the way to treat your volunteers, any future donations I had planned for you will now go elsewhere.
— J. HEALEY, Legana.
Tamar
TODAY my wife and I took our daily stroll along Rosevears Drive, as pleasant a walk as may be found anywhere in the world.
Over the years we have seen the river beaten by furious winds and on other occasions forming a perfect mirror.
The moon rises over Mt Arthur casting a golden pathway across the water and today, the waters of the Tamar shimmered in the sunlight.
But all is not well in this paradise, as the rafts and streaks of ugly foam attest.
Every day, all day this persistent foam can be found in the Tamar, evidence of effluent that should not be there. Could it possibly be, that one day our river will look like some of those ghastly pictures found on the internet in images of foam on rivers?
— PETER FAULKNER, Rosevears.
Health
SO Australian Medical Association of Tasmania president Dr Tim Greenaway believes the Tasmanian Health Services "look like a laughing stock" which makes Dr Anne Brand's position of interim head of Tasmanian Health Services untenable because she believes in alternative medicine.
As any nurse that has worked long-term on a cancer ward will tell you, there are many more things in heaven and on earth than doctors.
I am willing to present myself at the Launceston General Hospital for any testing to prove that healers exist and should be working hand in hand with doctors for the benefit of patients.
In Dr Brand's position I doubt whether her beliefs would interfere with her ability to manage.
So Dr Greenwood let her also prove her abilities by getting on with the job and stop pre-judging peoples abilities.
— ROSEANN HOWARTH, Greens Beach.