Recently we travelled to Hobart and back and as you know there are a lot of roadworks going on. My husband obeyed the adjusted speeds and I was truly amazed at how many cars that were miles behind us came right up behind us and in many cases overtook us, despite signs up saying no overtaking.

I know we do not have enough police to be able to catch people and it just frustrates me that these idiots are endangering my life and the lives of people I love.

If you are in such a hurry, leave a little earlier.

Perhaps the police might like to look at the vision from our dash cam and see just how many people have no regard for the law.

As a woman living in the North of the state I am very tired of the issue of access to pregnancy termination being decided on by white, well-off men (I’m looking at you, the Honourable Michael Ferguson – among others).

Elective surgical termination is an essential service that should be available within the Tasmanian public health system.

You don’t have to morally agree with terminations, but you do have to respect that women need real access to this health procedure.

To do otherwise says to women that our self-determination is not important, that our choices are not respected and that we are second-class citizens.

Our bodies are our bodies and a fair society respects and empowers us to make decisions that are right for our lives and families.

I AM quite disgusted how the Launceston Council spend ratepayers money, on yet another "concrete jungle" while money could be spend on more important projects.

What is wrong with the existing Brisbane Street Mall?

Is this going to be yet another "concrete jungle"? Wake up ratepayers.

I ECHO my agreement with E. Denman (The Examiner, April 12) that it’s good to see a focus on childhood trauma occurring in Tasmania.

A seminar was held on March 22 hosted by the Northern Tasmanian Early Childhood Group which was well attended by people from various organisations around Launceston, and from folks as far afield as Hobart and the North-West Coast.

Dr Elspeth Stephenson and other speakers addressed the seminar on complex childhood trauma. Coincidentally an interview with a US doctor, Dr Nadine Burke-Harris, occurred on the same day. Her book The Deepest Well also deals with childhood trauma.

She is organising a service among GPs in the US so that they can screen children with adverse childhood experiences and refer for treatment.

Again let us not forget there are adolescents and adults in our community who also need support and resolution of their traumas.

DO WE really need to be bombarded with TV insurance adverts, offering cover with “no medical requirement” and “just join up over the phone”.

Sounds easy, but I suspect the tricky bit will be getting the money out of them when the time comes.  

I would however recommend the funeral insurance ones  because even if they don’t pay up you will never have to worry about it.

TASMANIAN hospitals struggle with specialised services because each hospital is relatively small and must provide all services.  Wouldn’t it be better to have each hospital around the state specialise in one particular area, say joint replacement or neurosurgery, and together make up one statewide hospital system rather than a dozen small regional general hospitals?

Already patients must be transported all the way to Melbourne for treatment because there is insufficient concentration of specialists services in Tasmania, the scattering of hospital services not sufficient to justify large specialist equipment in each region.

Tasmanian roads are of a sufficient standard for transportation between facilities, the time from Hobart to Launceston, for instance, no more than the time it takes to traverse from one side of Sydney to the other during business hours.   Tasmania’s size in travel time is comparable to one big city so perhaps we should start to think in those rather than regional terms.

I SUGGEST all politicians who don’t want live exports banned should be loaded onto a “ship of fools” and sent on the same trip as our Aussie animals an exposed to the same conditions. Shame on us all for letting this go on.

THE world is at flashpoint with the West being held virtually hostage by Assad and Putin, not to mention North Korea's Kim Jong-Un. Because Europe is made up of many small countries, to bomb one is to put those in close proximity in danger.

Many thousands of people have died due to the actions of the aforementioned and perhaps a solution would be to place a price of $1 billion upon each of their heads, as money speaks all languages and would have them so concerned of their continuing survival with no one to trust. 

It could have them discontinue their barbaric behavior, notwithstanding the saving of hundreds of billions of dollars now spent in curtailing their actions.