Seniors Week
LIKE CHRISTMAS, Seniors Week is fast approaching on October 16-22, a week when we are not patronised by being called “dear and darling”. I guess there will be the usual plethora of morning teas (I hope they use Twinings) when we are told how to be safe and healthy. For a change put some spice into the week. How about a Singapore noodle night or a tastes of India evening? It will be daylight saving so all could be home by sunset. You could have a cocktail art exhibition at Eskleigh or just champagne, canapes and conversation at twilight in Princes Square. I know somebody, who could discuss with small groups on how to write a book about their lives. Much better than waiting for the eulogy you won’t even hear. You could be immortalised in the local LINC, the state library and the National Library in Canberra. I do however myself, like the free bus travel (if you have a green card), although from experience few seniors use the bus, they prefer cars.
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Malcolm Scott, Newstead.
Coal Power
THERE HAS been a lot of misinformation about the Liddell power plant spread about by the Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Environment and Energy Minister Josh Frydenberg. Liddell has not been able to provide the Mr Turnbull’s cherished base load and the energy market, via market operators head Audrey Ziblelman, has said that Liddell had failed during the worst of the mainlands heatwaves and has been operating at best 50 per cent otherwise. What the pollies haven’t told people is that without wind and solar there would have been bigger and longer blackouts and have the crucial base loads as dispatchables, via storage capacities.
Peter Taylor, Midway Point.
Bill Shorten
CRITICISM of Labor Leader Bill Shorten for inaction over hurricanes Harvey and Irma (The Examiner, September 13) seems to be a tad harsh. There’s not really much an Opposition can do other than support the government’s offer of aid to those parts affected; while offers of prayers and spiritual encouragement are welcomed by those who feel such will improve the situation. Also, to blame Labor for ‘sniping’ at LNP members over issues of citizenship is also silly. It was a LNP supporter from WA who began the dual citizenship imbroglio by outing the Greens. What followed is just a matter of progressive circumstance. I might venture that Mr Shorten’s cautious inaction on this issue has more to do with glass houses and stones rather than any LNP malfeasance.
Dave Robinson, Newstead.
Arthur Pieman
I SEE that the state government is trying to buy votes by petitioning the federal government to reopen the Arthur Pieman wilderness to four-wheel drives once more. Haven’t we done enough damage to the indigenous Tasmanians, their culture and our wildlife already? With perfect timing, I see on the TV news that a bunch of these revheads, have now made a mud bath of endangered wildlife’s habitat. The biggest problem is that, with an election coming up, the federal government could be just silly enough to allow this vandalism en mass.
Richard Hill, Newstead.
Electricity
IT IS unfortunate that most of us are used to having reliable electricity as we now have little appreciation of how vital it is in not only in our economy but also our lives. Aided by subsidies and misinformation we have embraced wind and solar generation with not a thought about its unreliability and so have landed in the present mess. This mess was caused by not requiring power companies to provide and sell only reliable electricity. This would have led to a better appreciation of its true cost as renewables would have had to take a fair share in the investment and maintenance required.
