Out of the many thousands of items on the supermarket shelves, I have only seen one label and it was very small to see and read.

Still we are fobbed off, told another lie when they should have been on supermarket shelves many years back.

We are continually sold off by our governments

One item that is missing now days, should include if item is Halal certified, than trying to read the multitude of symbols on the country of origin food label

DECISIONS by those in authority sometimes border on ridiculous and insane.

The appointment of Zimbabwe 'authoritarian' president, Robert Mugabe as a World Health Organisation ' goodwill ambassador', fits that category.

Mugabe has for years overruled his countries decline in living standards with a health system so decrepit he himself travels overseas for medical reasons.

I'm sure the UN health agency will realise their mistake and make the change before the rest of the world add "unacceptable' to the above.

I WOULD like to comment on two great letters published recently in The Examiner.

The first, by Malcolm Scott on how ridiculously over-governed Tasmania is and the Hare-Clark voting system.

We have a state population the size of a medium size town yet we pay through the nose for far too many politicians, many of whom are dead wood, put there as Mr Scott says, on the coattails of others by the inane Hare-Clark system.

In reality we need only a maximum of about 11 members from all parties, say two each from the North, the North-West, the North-East and East, two from the wider Hobart area and one from each of the West Coast, the Midlands and far south.

They would, of course have to work harder but it would save the long-suffering taxpayer and enormous amount of money.

The second letter, by Jim Dickenson picks up on the deficiencies of the City of Launceston and its non-thinking knee jerk approach to major projects.

He really hits the nail on the head about the lack of research into things, such as the effect moving the university from its perfectly good site at Alanvale, with good access from the northern outlet etc, to a far more cramped situation at Inveresk without any real regard to traffic flow, which is already heavy.

Also we get a second-rate bridge design over the river because they apparently want to get off early, have a beer and get home in time to watch The Block or whatever.

It points to poor leadership and poor attitude on the part of some members and, if they continue in this way they should be replaced by people more in tune with what our city needs.

CECIL Neil Guy's letter (The Examiner,October 26) regarding the use of vehicle headlights in rain missed an excellent opportunity of adding the use of headlights in thick fog.

I'm always amazed how vehicles appear out of dense fog without any lights on, or only using park lights.

Park lights can only be seen when a vehicle is within metres of your own in thick fog.

It's essential that all drivers use headlights in thick fog as a safety measure, and cease thinking that they are invincible, putting all other road users at risk.

VACANT businesses in Launceston seem to indicate a lack of business confidence.  

Do the state liberals really believe their rhetoric that all is sweet?

WOULD somebody please turn Liberal Senator Eric Abetz around so he faces the future (The Examiner, October 21).

If he sees coal mining the Fingal Valley as “forward thinking” he is definitely looking into the past.

THIS government is throwing good money after bad with its interim solution when the solution to the problem is openly available on the lease market.

A Platform Supply Vessel with a ramp modification added to the stern would solve all the problems and there are many of these sitting idle in South-East Asia.

Helping Toll complete a vessel they were already constructing is just giving away money.

BEYOND me why one of the studies being done hasn’t come up with a combined system with both bike trail and heritage rail trail being done to double the number of people coming to the area.

There seems to be lots of studies and assessments being done, it’s such a pity that all that money being spent as usual talking could have been used on action getting it off the ground and running.

SEEMS to me that this saga can be easily resolved by having the Employment Minister Michaelia Cash staffer, David De Garis, appear before a Senate Committee or make a statement under oath to the appropriate authority.

Whatever the outcome the Senate can move on.