The question I ask the Tasmanian government is - why not?

You’ve got to admire Senator Lambie’s honesty, who admits ``The only reason I got help for my son is because of my title”.

Rest assured that there definitely is a need for a residential youth rehab in the state.

I still believe that parents need to be playing a bigger role in prevention by actively engaging themselves in their teenagers social lives more, rather than just explaining what’s right and what’s wrong, which can be a huge challenge, especially for working parents, but totally worthwhile in the long run.

ANDREW Nikolic's letter (The Examiner, June 5) proposes a number of matters that should be challenged.

The ‘budget emergency’ so often espoused when the coalition were in opposition is now never mentioned, as the Abbott/Turnbull government have realised that the current political climate demands are very different to those of the Howard era.

If Mr Nikolic and many of his colleagues  were not so strong in their criticism of the spending that occurred in the Rudd/Gillard years, and also perhaps if they were able to establish a significant turnaround the revenue and spending in their three years of government, then the need to criticise others so strongly may be more valid.

Now in government, continuing to blame a previous Labor leadership for your situation, achieves very little.

SO THE Coalition want to give tax cuts over the next 10 years to every business in Australia.

This includes, for example, banks, who already as we know have reduced staff and closed branches around the country.

They have not explained how this will create more jobs or how many it will supposedly create.

The fair work commission just the other day granted a measly pay rise to the average weekly wage.

As each time this happens the business council has come out against the amount saying profits will be eroded and they can not afford these wage rises.

So instead of looking after their staff they are more interested in profiting at their expense.

So with this in mind we are to accept the Coalition on their word that a tax cut will create more jobs.

If so, how many and what fields, where is their research to back this up?

They are all about words and slogans and treat us as if we are just to believe them and everything will be rosy. I fear not.

LEN Langan (Letters, June 12) questions the value of minor parties.

He describes them and their candidates as “politically inexperienced  parliamentary pension prospectors and opportunists”.

He further adds our “democratic system fundamentally rests on a two party system”.

As the candidate for Bass for the Christian Democratic Party I find these comments offensive and an inaccurate portrayal of our democratic system of government.

What hope does our democracy have should ordinary people not be afforded the opportunity to form political parties and stand for issues they feel strongly in.

What experience other that the experience of life does Mr Langan suggest one requires in office?