At this cost do not expect many takers. After adding up van, food, staff and electricity expenses, there's not much left over as profit and council now wishes to suck that out.

The whole concept adopted by the council is wrong.

Some things council should just facilitate as part of its role to provide services and amenity to its ratepayers. The last dollar should not be extracted from each situation.

Food vans provide a service to families with cheap meals in family friendly locations. The council's intrusion will have two consequences - there will be fewer food vans operating and those which do will need to increase their prices.

The good citizens of Launceston miss out again due to the council's avariciousnes.

Dick James, Launceston.

GOVERNMENT statistics indicate a remarkable performance in Australia’s job creation and deserve congratulations.

Those new employees may not be so congratulatory being on the legitimate receiving end. Smoke and mirror statistics are used to arrive at these remarkable job endeavors.

Employment is politically calculated being anyone working one hour or more each week. There are currently three common methods of employment, one permanent, two part-time, three casuals.

To increase the workforce, downgrade the part-time employee to casual with no guarantees, legitimate under many awards or EBA’s.

Take from 10 part time employees on 10 hours weekly five hours each, saving 50 hours, then employ an additional 10 casuals at five hours each, you double the workforce at no additional cost.

Does anyone in their right mind believe a business will increase their fixed costs recoverable by dubious variable costs?

It was some 40 years ago I studied economics, I doubt they changed that much.

Wally Reynolds, Perth.

THE following is an idea that may fix the traffic problem forever at the Goderich-Lindsay Street intersections at the Charles Street bridge.

It would need considerable funding from somewhere, but anything built now will cost a lot less than later on.

A ramp high enough for general traffic to go under it would need to be built towards the end of Goderich Street and onto the Charles Street bridge over Lindsay Street. The slip lanes at the Esplanade, Lindsay Street and at Gleadow Street would need to remain.

If the traffic entry point over the bridge at the Esplanade was taken out, and provision for pedestrians, perhaps an overpass put in, this would give a free, unimpeded run for traffic from Forster Street to the Cimitiere Street (Seaport) traffic lights or continuing right through if the lights could be synchronised.

The next requirement is for another bridge across the river, perhaps connecting Holbrook Street to St John Street. All normal traffic along Lindsay Street would now have a clear run either to this or the Tamar Street bridge. Traffic wishing to join the highway could do so by going up St John Street and along to the Cimitiere-Seaport junction.

The final step would be for all heavy and high load traffic, plus of course ordinary traffic if they so wished, to go in or out along the proposed road the other side of Bunnings, where they would be able to go in whatever direction they wished at the Forster Street and Goderich Street intersection.

I have put this idea forward to give the general public something to add or to pull apart, so they will get involved with their ideas in what will soon be an important decision made for the future.

J.D Orchard, Scottsdale.

IT WAS a very bad  tactical error not to give Sue Hickey a cabinet position.

After all, she was a successful Lord Mayor of Hobart.

Talking of civic office, I think Albert van Zetten would make a good governor when the term of the present incumbent ends.

A true representative of the North and like the present governor a change from chief justices being appointed.

Malcolm Scott, Newstead.

TWO wrongs don't make a right.

The Anglican Church is severely misguided on this issue. Don't punish a current community for the wrongs you have committed against past communities.

How can you disrespect burial grounds?

What is that saying to the faithful who have contributed to your coffers and community? How do you sell off the graves of the faithful to the highest bidder? How do you manage burial ground policy?

What happens to those churches that have active burial grounds?

What happens to the 80-year-old man who has waited 20 years to be buried next to his wife?

Or the mother who wants to be buried next to her deceased child?

You have crossed the spiritual line, Anglican Church, and I pray that you seek guidance on this, as clearly, you are misguided now.

Carolyn Jones, New Town.

THE concept of “sticking one’s head in the sand” has finally come to an end for Justine Keay.

The situation expresses itself in the form of formalities stating the facts in regard to her dual citizenship circumstances.

Some would consider it time for her to face the consequences of avoiding her responsibility to keep her affairs in order, and in a timely manner.

For a considerable time, a significant proportion of the Braddon electorate would have been asking the question, “Where has she been”?

Paris Shacklock, Devonport.