Tradies
YOU ALWAYS hear about the bad tradies and there are some who leave people devastated.
Subscribe now for unlimited access.
$0/
(min cost $0)
or signup to continue reading
These tradies make it look bad for the hard working honest tradies .
Since my husband passed, I decided to get some much needed improvements to our home, which could not be done while I was caring for my husband.
Living on the East Coast, St Helen’s being the main town, I rang local businesses.
They included Brad from ACE Electrical, Nathan and Mick from Tascoast Joinery, Rod the Plumber, Donald Case the painter and S & K Rawnsley Builder.
All of them have treated me with respect, good quotes and excellent work.
I would like it known I have no investment in any of these tradies, what I do have is a high standard of work and a quote with no added extras.
So even though there are a handful of bad tradies, after my experience there are many good honest tradies in Tasmania.
L. Morton, Beaumaris.
Religious Privilege
I WAS thinking 2017 has been a tough year.
Turnbull’s condemnation of renewables, backpacker tax nonsense, Manus, citizenship fiasco, international tax dodgers, the robo terrorists at CentreLink, Murray Darling water theft.
Then I started to think.
IS was eventually pushed out of Iraq, same-sex marriage was passed in Australia (even if it took an eternity), the Royal Commission finally held the Catholic priests to some account, and in Saudi Arabia women will be allowed to drive.
All these positives were the result of societies having to undo the effects of religious privilege – religious abuse of trust or power, or discrimination against someone they deem to be inferior.
Mr Morrison, Mr Abbott and others are planning to fight for religions to have special privileged power over the rights of others.
I suggest they probably believe that their beliefs in ancient rule books endows them with some special rights compared with everyone else.
It seems religions sadly find themselves on the dark side of human compassion and routinely seem to be resisting efforts to produce a fairer society.
M.Fyfe, Riverside.
Pokies
THE LABOR Party must really be struggling for support for their pokies policy if the only criticism they can come up with targeting the new Love Your Local campaign is that they’ve engaged prominent Tasmanian David Foster to front the campaign.
He’s an ambassador for an organisation and a cause he supports and believes in, a concept that is neither new nor novel.
Paid ambassadors advocating for causes, products and organisations have been around for a long time.
It’s a proven way of getting a message out to the public.
I don’t need to know exactly what Chris Hemsworth was paid to be a Tourism Australia ambassador to realise that he is one.
I assume he signed up to that campaign because he’s a proud Aussie who could leverage his public profile for a cause he supports.
This is exactly what David Foster has done.
Used his public profile as a successful and well known Tasmanian to support Tasmania’s pubs and the right of the public to choose how to spend their down time.
He has been completely open about this.
For the Labor Party whose policies, candidates and their place on the ticket are dictated by unions and factions rather than the MPs and lay members themselves, to criticise the Love Your Local campaign for engaging a prominent Tasmanian to front a campaign is laughable.