On its future site what is wrong with the North Bank when the council have finished doing it up lots of open space and no problem with parking.

THIS IS a really significant proposal for people living in Launceston and the Tamar Valley.

It will transform the river into a giant freshwater lake giving a boost to a range of river recreations and provide limitless water for irrigation.

It will have significant financial benefits and over the years return manyfold its initial cost.

The planned barrage will allow for outward flows and remove the asymmetrical tidal flows upriver.

Becoming salt free, the river will no longer experience flocculation which in the past has led to silt build-up.

Silts, including those generated from sewage plants, will not now end up in Home Reach carried there on incoming tides, but will move downriver and enter Bass Strait.

The waters will once more be clean and clear allowing river swimmers, presently restricted to the First Basin or Station Street, to enjoy Home Reach.

And Launceston will be protected from sea level rise with a barrage in place.

Congratulations to Robin Frith and his team for the sterling work done to date.

We now have every faith in the drive of Sam Tucker to see this project through to completion.

THERE is another solution for drug rehabilitation, with opening a mental health plan referred from the doctor.

Family support is important and important parent support  responsibility not reinforcing behaviours of addiction.

The psychiatrist and psychologist can find under pinning reasons of substance abuse and assistance to aid wellbeing.

Delivering change with behaviours.

This is another avenue to assist, with this community problem.

I'M CONCERNED by statements made by F O’Sullivan regarding roundabouts (The Examiner, October 12).

Firstly, regardless of whether the car in front was indicating left, right or not at all, the fact that F. O’Sullivan “would’ve rear-ended him” indicates that F. O’Sullivan is either travelling too fast, or too close to the car in front.

It is F. O’Sullivan’s obligation to give way to the car on the roundabout, in this instance, the car in front.

Secondly, F. O’Sullivan has omitted some important portions of the road rules regarding roundabouts.

The rules go on to state, and I quote, “just like exiting any road, drivers must signal left when leaving a roundabout, if it is practical to do so, and stop indicating as soon as they have exited the roundabout”.

What is more concerning, is drivers that approach roundabouts at speed, with a “give way to the right” mentality.

This attitude fails to recognise that the car that they must give way to, may in fact be on their left, and already on the roundabout.

SUCH dedication by Federal Education Minister Simon Birmingham to put so much energy in lifting the standard of English for foreign students, as he announced in Hobart (Thursday, October 12).

Now he should focus on the failing standards of Australians to have more credibility.

I STRONGLY support Nick Kyrgios walking off the court, provided it is permanent.

WE ALL hear from the government and the powers that be all these wonderful promises for education.

All the ways to help children.

All the plans and strategies to give support to people in need.

What hope do any of them have when there are not only no facilities for education, for children, for the disadvantaged, anyone who can do something about it doesn't care?

ADMITTEDLY former British prime minister Winston Churchill has become somewhat of a legend in his exploits against Nazi Germany during World War II and indeed a hero to many opposing the Third Reich threat at the time.

Yet, what some people collect never ceases to amaze me.

A cigar half smoked by Winston Churchill during his 1947 trip to Paris has sold for $12,000 to a collector in Palm Beach, Florida.

Well may I say, it's not a bad profit for the seller, considering half of it has already gone up in a puff of smoke.

CONGRATULATIONS David Walsh and Brian Ritchie bringing MoFo to Launceston.

Festivale and MoFo, roll on 2018.

THE City of Launceston might have demonstrated better stewardship of public assets had it insisted that University of Tasmania transfer some or all of the Newnham campus to the city as a form of payment for the (otherwise) gifting of land to UTAS at Inveresk.

Even if the next use of the Newnham campus is pre-planned, the ultimate user could presumably buy it from the city enabling the city to receive financial compensation.