Olympic dream
I AM replying to the article in (The Examiner, August 23) regarding our Olympians. What the media don't understand is our lack of population. The dominating countries have a massive population to choose their athletes and swimmers from. We are of a minority.
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Australia needs to increase our population so that we can compete on a level playing field. I understand that that may take a few hundred years to to occur. But one can always dream.
Mr. Cecil Neil Guy, Youngtown.
Youth detention centre
ROBERT Lee (Letters, August 20) unfortunately contributes to the muddled thinking that afflicts so many on the subject of the Ashley Youth Detention Centre.
He is right to be pleased that fewer than 10 young offenders are held there, but wrong to complain about the cost.
Whatever the outcome of the current furore about an alleged over-reaction by staff who came under attack from violent inmates, it will certainly not end with a recommendation to employ fewer.
The staff’s well-deserved wages are the price Tasmania pays for a basic essential – a secure facility where serious young offenders such as armed robbers and rapists can be held, and if possible rehabilitated.
Those who baulk at the cost of Ashley will be far more horrified when the Government finally comes clean about its “trash and spend” policy of closing the facility altogether, only to build another one for millions of dollars more.
That would be foolish indeed.
Greg Hall, MLC for Western Tiers.
Protests
WHEN watching protests on television I often wonder if many of the protestors are the same people over and over again. Habitual protestors, who really enjoy a “good” protest no matter what the cause.
“Rent a crowd”.
Malcolm Scott, Newstead.
Clarification
A letter that appeared on Friday named Kyle Barrett, of Relbia, as the Launceston Young Liberals president. This is incorrect. The president is Christopher Edwards.