If they do as good a job with yours as “they” did at Kings Meadows traffic should not bank up any further than Mowbray hill.

In 2017 they said they would fix the mess at Kings Meadows early in the new year.

What they did not say was what new year.

Maybe the next one what do you reckon?

AS A senior citizen of Tasmania, I am seeking to vent my anger and disgust towards our federal politicians, as to the way, they have allowed our export animals to be so cruelly treated by shipping companies.

I am also disappointed with the slience many farmers have shown publicly.

This trade is vile and obscene.

It must stop now and to think many Australian families cannot afford meat, on their table; to see sheep (dead) thrown overboard is disgusting.

It is beyond comprehension, but it is a fact. Money comes before morals.

I hope the new minister shows some intestinal fortitude and puts an end to this evil practice, as I have little faith in our political system.

I doubt it.

I will withhold my vote until governments listen to the people.

SO ISRAEL Folau believes in hell.

Let's stop right there. Why would any one of us who is not of that persuasion even care?

This is not about his belief. It is about his judgement.

If Israel has been taught that homosexuality is sinful - then that is a teaching, not a belief. Just the same as creationism is a teaching masquerading as a belief.

The evidence? Well in fact there is no evidence of heaven or hell but there is ample evidence of evolution and there is ample evidence of human sexual diversity as a natural phenomenon. Israel is guilty of ignorance.

Feel free to worship who and whomever you want just be honest that in choosing literal interpretations of the Bible you are turning your back on 2000 years of advanced human understanding, knowledge and science.

ON APRIL 10 l celebrated being a graduate for 50 years, with a book signing in the morning and in the evening a marvelous dinner with two others who graduated with me on the same day 50 years ago.

In obtaining my degree I learnt a great deal about, public administration, political science, history and geography, but most of all about myself.

I hope most sincerely that students today have the wonderful and transforming experience l had and that it is not just about getting a degree from a degree shop for a HECS debt.

Obtaining my degree was a hard slog, as three-hour examinations were very much the fashion.

I lived in Christ College and as a 25-year-old found it hard to relate to some of my fellow students at times.

Christ College however, provided food for the body as well as the mind along with the real Oxbridge University-experience and without it I would never had graduated.

Geography was my forte and I want to honour two of my exceptional teachers Professor Peter Scott and Dr Bob Solomon, who were not only brilliant in their chosen field, but were great human beings.

The translation of the graduation song Gaudeamus Igitur is so let us rejoice.

I rejoice that in this life, I had the privilege to be a graduate of such a fine university as the University of Tasmania.

Deo gratis.

TO Ian O'Neill (The Examiner, April 28), one can only say “well said” as we continue to wrap our children up in cotton wool lest they learn how to live in the real world. 

The nanny state is not doing us any good in so many directions.   

Thank heaven some of us are beginning to recognise this over protective nonsense and that includes political correctness.

The use of too much cotton wool in our society is very harmful. It lowers ambition and enterprise and weakens our general ability to build a responsible society.

AFTER reading your interesting interview with the Health Minister Michael Ferguson I was somewhat surprised that you did not raise the issue of the lack of safe termination facilities in the state. 

I find it scandalous that women need to travel interstate to get a safe termination in Tasmania. In the 21st century, after the passage of legislation legalising safe terminations I would have thought that the government funded hospital system would offer women such a facility.

WE HAVE just enjoyed a two-week driving tour of Tasmania, as much as we could fit in and the holiday was delightful.

I am deeply perturbed, however, by the almost complete failure to acknowledge the original inhabitants of the land.

There are plenty of depictions of the Tasmanian tiger, which is extinct, but not of the indigenous Tasmanians, who are not. I saw not an example of a indigenous place name, although I am told there are a few. Other similar colonies used indigenous names right from their foundation, such as Yarra, Parramatta, Indooroopilly.

It is a sign of great maturity that the Tasmanian government has apologised and is making amends to the many gay men who were regarded as criminals in the past.

Can I suggest that, in a similar vein, at the very least, the indigenous peoples of Tasmania, dead and alive, could be acknowledged by using indigenous names for the land they occupied for 40,000 years.