Amazing Tasmania
FORGET about Bali or Fiji when arranging your next holiday; stay at home and visit your own incredible state. With overseas guests, we recently did so and simply had no idea what was right on our doorstep, starting with platypuses and seahorses at Beauty Point, to the awesome and spectacular Nut at delightful Stanley, then down the West Coast to Strahan and the fabulous Gordon River Cruise followed by an unbelievable, and unforgettable, experience on the fantastic West Coast Wilderness Railway steam train. Truly, truly amazing!
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The whistle-stop tour was rounded off with a most pleasant evening spent on the Hobart waterfront before returning home via historic Port Arthur and the sparkling azure waters and golden sandy beaches of the East Coast displayed at their very best under sunny skies, which we were fortunate enough to experience the whole time.
There were many, many obvious international tourists sharing our experiences at the same time at the conclusion of which we felt so proud of our beautiful island state and the fantastic friendly and hospitable Tasmanians who are involved in our state’s tourist industry.
Jim and Linda Collier, Legana.
Vulnerable Do Count
I AM at a total loss to understand why Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, who is in his position for the betterment of Australia and it's people, appears to have waged war on anyone on Centrelink payments no matter what their role in life is. Decreasing pensions of those already living below the poverty line is heartless, and with the Centrelink debt recovery debacle. So many who are already battling have been slammed with a letter alleging money is owed for overpayments going back years. Is it not wrong of Centrelink to put these so-called debts into the hand of debt recovery agencies when the debts have not been proved and the ones being demanded to pay never received the original before it went into debt collectors hands?
Susan Goebel, Invermay.
Future Policy Crisis
THE government maintain Australians could reduce welfare dependency by providing independent retirement incomes from investments such as superannuation, negative-geared property, stock market and so on.
These policies carry risk, some considerable to the inexperienced, influenced by political hyperbole “do as we say, not as we do”. Governments, both state and federal have selected their “quick fix” wholesaling profitable assets (investments) that would have sheltered Australians, such as energy producing assets and many more.
We now find ourselves with overpriced energy; a precarious energy future, devoid of authentic policy beyond 2017. Opportunistic capitalist market-based corporations and syndicates acquired at bargain priced, monopolistic type assets, capable of dictating government policy.
Can any political party claim to include “statesmen”, with proficiency in policy and leadership parallel to those of last century? People with vision and the tenacity to implement significant policy beyond the next election period or without expecting average workers to pay for all the mistakes.
After disposing of such intellect, we now seem to be governed by groups of apparatchiks experienced in the art of verbal diarrhoea intended to subjugates their objectors, before entering their proboscises back into the proverbial troughs. Perhaps the past offers more guidance for our politicians (back to the future).
Wally Reynolds, Perth.
Meander Valley Council
IT SEEMS, from what Reverend Humphrey from St David's Cathedral said (The Examiner, March 16), that God created the Meander Valley Council. That would explain a lot.