He claims he managed walk to the city centre in seven minutes, Canning Street in 15 minutes.

I am extremely fit. Walking from Inveresk to Myer takes about 15 minutes walking. This is unverified and not evidence. 

On the other hand, Google Maps gives the distance from Inveresk to Myer as 1.2 kilometre, about 15 minutes walking.  

To the corner of St John and Canning streets  is 1.5 kilometes – 22 minutes walking. A good walker can walk in ideal conditions about 10 minutes per kilometre. 

To achieve Geoff McLean’s figure requires defining the parameters to meaningless. He also claims “the new campuses will open up the city”.

Can he tell us how many of the present students at the Inveresk take the opportunity now and open up the city? Does he see the distinction between can and will?

This is symptomatic of the whole university’s case for the move. 

I do not care very much where they site their campuses but I care strongly about evidence and none has been presented and no contrary evidence has been considered.

Richard Pickup, Karoola.

TELSTRA and the money-hungry  bosses at Telstra must share a huge amount of the burden for the troubles and the costs of the NBN fibre-to-the-node rollout. 

Telstra is selling NBN its antiquated copper system at a greatly inflated price, especially as I and many others who have connected to the service will tell you. 

Not only is this network old, it cannot provide sufficient connectivity to run even the 25mbs/5mbs minimum service.

Mine (when it has enough signal to connect) gives a speed of as low as 3mbs download and 0.5mbs upload, this will not even open Yahoo or Facebook. 

It's a disaster and Telstra should be seen for the thieves that they are. 

Any normal business that sold such shonky gear would be long gone but they bowl along making profits all because of the Prime Minister’s ridiculous plan to get the NBN into every household, even if it doesn't work.

Ken Terry, Bridport.

WE HAVE all seen those trenches for drainage next to our rural roads.

It is hard to find a safe place to pull off these roads, without causing damage to one’s vehicle.

Councils every one or two years spend fortunes to remove the grasses that cover the trench. 

It would be better to do the job right first time and lay pipes and cover the trenches, and stop the waste of money for year after year of cleaning trenches.

Walter Christy, Shearwater.

OUR ESTEEMED politicians never fail to amaze and disgust me.

I refer to the generous travel allowance they receive in or out of politics, courtesy of the struggling taxpayer.

Do any of them spare a thought for the homeless, sick and elderly while they fly around the world?

They leave me in no doubt that the majority are selfish and greedy who only have their own interests at heart.

The way they rant and abuse each other is appalling and childish, one can expect naughty children to behave as such but it is quite unbecoming for educated mature adults to do so.

I cannot foresee good tidings in the future for Australia while we have such a bunch to right the wrong.

Jo Ford, Legana.

IT’S A sad day learning about the death of legendary rock n’ roll singer Fats Domino aged 89 (The Examiner, October 27).

To all you do-gooders out there who protest that it is discriminative to call someone fat - get a grip on it, Domino wore it with pride.

A.R. Trounson, Needles.

MELALEUCA in Tasmania's World Heritage area (along the south-west coast) has possibly received its most important residents for quite some time. 

Thanks to the efforts of wildlife biologist Shannon Troy and her colleges, the area now has seven of Australia's rarest bird, (the endangered orange bellied parrot) flying free amongst the trees. 

It's going to be tough on the 'bred in captivity' birds but we wish them well, and with the dedicated team of our state’s top biologists monitoring their progress they're in good hands.

A bird with an orange belly and a very big heart now back where they belong - wild and free.         

Robert Lee, Summerhill.

COULD someone tell me why there is not a regulation in regard to describing fruit or vegetables?

Some food stores only say red apples, green apples, washed potatoes.

Half-blind Freddy can see what colour they are.

But some apples are good for eating, others baking.

Same with potatoes, some are good for baking, others for mashing.

Very easy to name the variety, particularly on packets and tins, when the regulation states what’s in the products as illustrated in The Examiner on October 30.

John Stewart, Youngtown.

PRETTY SAVAGE cartoon, Pope’s View, (The Examiner, November 1).  

But then, it was probably about right.

Jim Dickenson, Launceston.