When a journey around Tasmania this month showed him wallabies, wombats and deer, it was one of the many things he wasn’t expecting.

Mr Moss should take full advantage of Tasmania’s wildlife and enjoy it while it lasts. Our wallabies are falling by their thousands to roadkill.

The wombats are being wiped out by the mange and some people want to cull the deer. At this rate, sooner or later Tasmania will end up just like the Nullarbor.

I HAVE noticed that many correspondents quote the line “charity begins at home” to suggest that we should care for our own needy and vulnerable people, such as the homeless, before we expend any resources on non-Australians (Letters, January 16).

The origin of that misused phrase is that we learn charity at home – in our families – not that we look after our own first. I believe that justice requires that as a society we respond to any vulnerable or in need person with the same care and compassion – no matter their nationality, religion, sexuality, how they arrived here. We are all fellow human beings.

THE editorial (Sunday Examiner, January 8) with the title “Time to clean up society’s messy behaviour” made much of the idea that the assaults at The Falls were "unacceptable".

Nowhere in the whole piece did the word "wrong" appear. To my mind, "unacceptable" carries the implication of "you shouldn't do that because I don't like it".

In our supposed "post-truth" world, "I don't like it" has become the standard for acceptability, but this is such a flimsy standard. If I can convince enough people to side with me, what you like or don't becomes irrelevant.

Why can we no longer say that such things as domestic violence or sexual assault are always wrong and thus just plain wrong? Are we as a society no longer able to say with confidence that some things are always right and others always wrong?

HAVING my four-year-old grandson in the Launceston General Hospital for six weeks, I was rather astounded there is no discounted parking rates for his family and other close family members.

Due to my grandson’s age, either parent could be spending up to 24 hours by his bedside, as would other families be doing so in a similar situation.

Surely a weekly voucher displayed on the dashboard would help eliminate one less problem in an already stressful time.

DESPITE the recommendations of Bishopgate, we see the results with despair. This is a perfect example of the contempt the political elite hold us in as they believe that if they don’t mention or implement the recommendations, eventually we will forget all about it and it will be business as usual.

When social security is looking so closely at policy and individuals or minority groups and claiming the moral high ground, one must ask one’s self why there are so many grey areas within the MPs funding policies to manipulate. The last thing that the cartel wants to do is pull the curtain back on OZ as they believe since they left their private schools and free university educations and joined their insider star chambers, that they are entitled to the spoils of their station. Most of us have never travelled first class or frequent polo matches.