Development
TUESDAY’S paper (The Examiner, October 25) had an interesting article on hotels. The billionaire James Koh has the right idea to upgrade Launceston. That is if the Heritage Council will allow it. They are determined to keep Launceston in the dark ages.
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We will never be able to be anything like Hobart as far as hotel development goes. I realise that Hobart has the deep-water harbour. I can recall when I was about 10-years-old going down to Kings Wharf to watch the Tatoona and Nairana passenger ships berthing there.
They were toys compared to liners of today, plus with the amount of slush we have going up and down the Tamar with each tide, the city will never get on top of it.
We need another Ponrabble dredge working continuously and a dredge to go with. I suppose as an 81-year-old I am living in dreamland. I can only hope.
Cecil Neil Guy, Youngtown.
Polls
WITH the latest Essential Research poll showing 53-47 to Labor, it’s only a matter of time before Tony Abbot starts counting heads.
With the ongoing slugfest on the floor of Parliament between the Prime Minister and his predecessor worsening daily it seems, I would suggest there is a real possibility of a Mr Abbott shirtfront on Mr Turnbull in the not-too-distant-future.
Syd Edwards, Launceston.
West Coast Wilderness Railway
A RECENT trip on the West Coast Wilderness Railway at Queenstown was a delight indeed.
My first trip many years ago was great, my recent trip fantastic.
Improvements have been made across the board.
Every possible effort has been made to provide an entertaining, informative, interactive, safe, value-for-money experience both on and off the train.
Congratulations are due to the West Coast management, the owner-operator and every employee the of the operation.
You maintain a wonderful standard and should be proud of the impression you set for tourism for the state of Tasmania.
It is a long shot but, with an aging population, wouldn’t it be just fantastic if we had a similar operation picking up passengers from the station at the Tamar St bridge and returning each night.
A trip far more diverse and longer than Victoria’s Puffing Billy (with a tunnel thrown in ).
Like the West Coast Wilderness Railway, 10s of thousands would get to enjoy our city and surrounding countryside and spend their money as they go each year in both Scottsdale and Launceston.
Lester Willoughby, Dilston.
Letters Objection
HOWARD Kaplan’s letter (The Examiner, October 20) is spot on with regard letters from politicians of all persuasions local, state and and federal to Letters to the Editor column.
As a reader of The Examiner I find it a waste of effort reading them if they want to vent their feelings to the opposition parties do so by some other of the many means available to them.
David Parker, West Launceston.
POVERTY LINE
NEARLY three million Australians live below the poverty line (The Examiner, October 18).
Tasmania Council of Social Services chief executive Kym Goodes said “Australia is a wealthy country and we should not continue to see so many of our citizens, our children forced to live in poverty”.
Try telling that to the Australian government, which keeps bringing in thousands of homeless, unemployed refugees.