Tennis is called ‘the gentleman’s game’ but unfortunately Mr Kyrgios has no idea what that means.

He constantly displays total lack of respect for his opponents, umpires and officials, and the tennis public, who have paid good money to see him self destruct over and over and over, and not try his best every time he plays, his is an absolute disgrace to the game, and himself.

His language aimed at umpires, and anybody else in his path, is nothing short of appalling, and no officials should have to suffer this arrogant, rude, tirade of abuse.

It is a pointless exercise fining him, money is something he has plenty of. He needs to put the racket down, for however long it would take, and have a good long hard look at himself.

He cannot possibly like what he sees, because we as Australians certainly do not like what we see.

He is an embarrassment to himself and to our country.

I THOUGHT at 80 years of age I’d just about seen and heard the lot.

Butg almost daily sadly i see so much lack of old fashioned common sense.

It’s almost beyond belief.

Take Tassal’s latest plan to clean up the environmental mess they have created in the once pristine and beautiful Macquarie Harbour on the West Coast of our island.

Tassal intend retrieving every month approximately 1 million litres of fish poo, or crud for another word, that is polluting the harbour.

Then they will take this crud about two kilometres across the harbour and dump it there.

So if my arithmetic is still right that equates to about 12 million litres of crud stock piled in the harbour each year.

Now I’m not the brightest light on the Christmas tree, but isn’t that cleaning up one mess just to create another.

May I suggest to Tassal, the only way to rid the harbour of the pollution they have caused, mop up, suck up the crud, take it out through Hells Gates into the open sea, steam about 10 to 15 kilometres due east then still steaming disperse of the crud, repeat until the harbour is clean once again.

This process should be repeated on a regular basis from then on. To leave the crud in the harbour is sheer lunacy.

Yes Tassal, it will be expensive to adopt my proposal, but isn’t a pollution free, beautiful harbour more important than shareholders bank balances or don’t you agree?

IT IS unbelievable, that some are calling to increase the number of members in the House of Assembly to 35.

Tasmania with a population of 515,000 is only slightly more than two municipalities in Sydney, Blacktown 337,000 and Waverley 274,000 for example.

Tasmania has 25 members of the House of Assembly, 15 in the Legislative Council, 12 senators (many of whom we never hear), five members of the House of Representatives and 29 municipalities each with a mayor and council.

The lack of quality of some members of the House of Assembly, is that, often lesser quality members are elected on the “coat tails” (extra above the quota) of well known and able members, thanks to the hopeless Hare-Clark electoral system.

This is what needs to be reformed urgently.

Tasmania is completely over governed, so stop trying to increase the number of politicians further.

We just need better quality candidates for all positions on the ballot paper.

YES, we need reliability. No question.

What we do not have is any degree of conviction that this government wholly supports the concept of human influenced climate change. If we are to be innovative then why not support initiatives for renewable energy? Tony Abbott labels progressive ideas such as renewable energy 'political correctness'. Well, I would much rather that than political backwardness.

Forget the dead hand of bureaucracy - the dead hand of Abbott is here for all to see. The only power he really cares about is his own resurrection. Party of Reliables?

As the old song goes: this a party that will oppose anything remotely progressive for our nation - on that you can rely.

THE state governments have themselves to blame for the price to public and commercial consumers by selling their power stations and supply grids to commercial companies for the short term gain of a few million dollars. Now the federal government and themselves say they have no authority to control the price of electricity.  As to demand of future production of electricity they say coal should not be used because of the carbon produced will greatly affect our global warming.

They have started closing Victorian coal fired stations and no plans to build more power stations to alleviate the supply for all our future demands of electricity. South Australia tried renewable energy to supply their state with a clean solution with poor supply and now they are talking of building the world's largest battery and probably the most expensive to supply their customers with the supply that their state requires.

Tasmania got into trouble with the HEC selling the electricity at high demand periods so they could pay the state government their dividend for the year only to drain our dams of water thus making our state vulnerable. I could only wonder if we had two cables across Bass Strait what plight we would be in now, at least we haven't sold our Hydro stations but we went close to selling our back up gas generators at Bell Bay.