Do people just think that it will go away and leave a clean sheet for future generations.

If we can't reduce it now, how will we manage when it grows with increased interest due to higher debt and no doubt higher interest rates in the future?

The government has a problem with everyone expecting everything free and no one wanting to pay increased taxes to cover the services we demand.

The age of entitlement is not helped by the media as any suggestion of a decrease in a benefit or tax increase will always result in the media finding no end of people willing to say how they will never manage with a small impost, like paying $5 to see a doctor as an example.

We must start taking responsibility for our own needs and not expect future generations of taxpayers to foot the bill for our overspending in this great country.

Let's all help secure some sort of a future for our kids before we become another Greece.

WITH the increasing popularity of Airbnb, Stayz and other private accommodation, what is the government's, Aurora Energy's and TasNetworks’ policy on electricity pricing for such businesses? I would estimate that there are thousands of premises operating as a business but only paying residential prices.

On asking Aurora of its views, the company replied: “Please note that the installed tariffs are regulated according to zoning and approval in accordance with TasNetworks Network Tariff Application and Price Guide. If the meters currently installed are on Residential Tariffs this would have been approved by TasNetworks. At this stage there are currently no reviews scheduled for properties that fall under this category unless a significant increase of usage occurs”.

Three emails to TasNetworks have fallen on deaf ears. Why should real domestic customers subsidise these small businesses who also obtain an unfair advantage on businesses that are operating on the correct business tariff.

A LETTER in The Examiner (January 14) by R. Lee suggested that Senator Helen Polley has escaped unscathed. Well, I think she has escaped unscathed because of the political party she is in.

I would like to ask Senator Polley for an explanation for a third time through this page why is she still a senator in the Labor Party after $26,000 spend on flights in Tasmania between Launceston and Hobart?

Bronwyn Bishop was chopped for $5000. Plenty of news on this LNP member but not much on Polley ALP member and a federal senator. Maybe that's it. 

SO THE Queen has been ill but is feeling better now. Good, but no more so than any elderly person who I may or may not know.

A celebrity culture has been generated by the highly effective palace public relations team and it is nauseating to witness talkback hosts competing with each other as to how much they admire this lady or to read about her health in the press as if it is something of great import.

This adulation is just further proof of what has now been identified as false news. When will the Australian Republican Movement stop apologising for their beliefs and offer the Australian public sound reasons for their stance and good strategies for implementing the changes they advocate.

They must stop reacting and start initiating.