I say to Senator David Bushby in terms of giving young people their best chance, turn right off Talbot Road en route to Newstead, and take a look at the extensions to St Giles, fully funded by a federal government grant, secured by former Labor Bass member Geoff Lyons.

ALMOST daily the newspapers are reporting on the subject of who is to blame for preventing same-sex marriage going through Parliament.

Many want to add to the national debt by insisting on a plebiscite, the result of which will be ignored  and overlooked if it fails to please the minority of  government political opinions. The decision will ultimately rest with the government. Politicians should spend some of that enormous amount of paid holiday time seeking the opinion of their electorates and take those opinions to the house. The government has, since being elected, doubled the national debt. Is it not time they earned their keep and act like the economical rationalists they claim to be?

The result will only succeed by having a free Parliamentary vote with the public voicing their opinion through their elected representatives. Threaten their bulging wallets they will do anything to protect that.

PETER Davson-Galle’s letter (The Examiner, August 11), along with the proposed virtues of moving the university campus, suggests the university be given the Inveresk site, Willis Street car park and the Gasworks complex as well as the circular car park area at the museum.  

Will our Launceston ratepayers be happy with this suggestion? His latest letter (The Examiner, September 12) states that the funds to be offered for the purpose of the new campus will not be available for refurbishing of the Newnham campus.  

Both federal parties committed funds associated with the university for the purpose of jobs and growth, both of which can be achieved with the funds spent at the Newnham campus.  

The funds promised by the council can still be spent in the council boundary and as for the funds promised by the university, one can ask, if it is available, why it was not spent on the best site we already have as a centre of learning?   The loss-making campus was allowed to deteriorate by those given the responsibility for the future.

My knowledge of universities in three other states all have them placed on the fringes of the cities and a new building does not guarantee success, especially after reading Chancellor Michael Field’s article (The Examiner, August 21).

I LOST track of the many letters I've written to this column and others over the years in regards to the fact that there were no foxes in this state.

I got sick and tired of the many nasty replies and threats that I received in response,  so now in my opinion the blocking of the fox file by this state government, noting that it would damage state and federal government is in my opinion just another attempt to hide the corruption that has taken place over these many years. They have wasted many millions of badly needed funds by other institutions such as hospitals, aged care and the like. The public needs to demand that this file be aired totally without fear or favour to bring to light.