This muck up doesn't happen on a set election day where people turn up at their local polling place and vote.

Using the same system of  polling in all three elections also removes any confusion over the process not to mention saves tonnes of paper and postage costs on the 45 per cent of ballots that aren't returned and just dumped in the bin.

Tasmanians deserve better than what we got and to hear excuses like roadworks delaying ballot papers getting delivered for counting and so on made our state look third world in the eyes of the nation.

I hope the state government in its review process of the Act take leadership and sorts this out once and for all.

THE echoes of Bellerive Oval resonated with emptiness on Sunday night for the cricket One Day International between South Africa and Australia.

With free to air coverage now restricted to tests and the Big Bash, cricket attendances may fall substantially for season 2018/2019 in Australia? With the recent advent of streaming now becoming increasingly available, does pay television have the same fate as the once ubiquitous video store?

I CAN relate to Don WIng’s comments about war and how dreadful it is (The Examiner, November 5), as my own father was killed in World War II.

However, we do seem to be on the same old roundabout with The Examiner’s front page mentioning the sale of defence systems at Europe’s largest military expo. I’d guess not all about defence.

The best, albeit simplistic, solution to stop war would be to shutdown arms production worldwide.

However I read that David did considerable damage with a slingshot.

HOW foolish of me to believe that, after the campaign for marriage equality had been won, there would be no more discussion on topics which might be offensive to anybody, yet religion is poking its nose in again, with some faith-based schools calling for the right to discriminate against gay teachers, since they don’t fit in with the belief system of those schools.

I know plenty of atheists who have sent their children to private schools, simply because they wanted them to receive a different standard of education.

I have asked many children over the years about how they coped with the religious side of the curriculum and the religious environment in general.

Without exception, the reply was that they paid lip-service to it and ignored it. 

To be fair and consistent then, schools of this nature should refuse entry to students as well as teachers who, in their eyes, don’t genuinely conform to the schools’ ethos.

CONGRATULATIONS to the University of Tasmania’s graduate diploma of legal practice course, which has just been ranked in the top three universities in Australia for law and paralegal postgraduate studies, according to data just published by the Federal Government’s Quality Indicators for Learning and Teaching (QILT) and analysed by PostgradAustralia (postgradaustralia.com.au).

The analysis was based on the latest QILT survey results, which asked graduates to what extent they agree with a series of statements about their postgraduate coursework experiences.

What all three top universities have in common is an emphasis on face-to-face learning and classroom activities, plus real-world practical experience that help students gain valuable insight into their sector and future work.

They also only offer their course at one campus.

Perhaps it’s time for other UTAS degree specialisations in Tasmania to be only offered on one campus and predominantly face-to-face so that other courses can also rank as highly as the graduate diploma of legal practice, as ranked by the students themselves.

I LIVE close to a private school in Prospect, which I imagine is quite pricey to attend. 

It seems however, that these high costs and promise of outstanding education can not deliver one particular lesson.

Every day my yard is scattered with litter that has blown from the school, every afternoon we have to listen to 30 minutes of constant, excessive horn honking and some mornings wake up to find a student’s car parked across our driveway.

Unfortunately the high costs of education doesn’t include how to be a respectful, considerate member of society.