The causes why buildings move, for example, are faulty foundation material, poor base compaction, gusty winds and bolted joints become loose.

Where millions of dollars are involved, and the credibility of the designers and construction company are at stake, fingers will be pointed in all directions.

Question: as movement is obvious, will all bolted joints be inspected to confirm all bolted joints have not moved?

It is stated the building has moved 1-2mm, this can be misleading as a building can sway or bend from its original position and return to its originality which may or may not cause cracking. 

Letting people return to the building before the problem is solved is somewhat premature.

Ed Sianski speaks about “doing unto others...” and refers to asylum seekers (The Examiner, December 28).

This Golden Rule is great until we look at things we cherish. Our government is expected to protect the public interest.

Most people in Australia enjoy our freedoms. We would not like to live under the rules where many of these Asylum seekers come from. 

We expect the government to use the taxpayers’ money to stop people who break our laws.

Coming here by boat is not the way the government wants asylum seekers to come. So the Golden Rule doesn’t cover all situations.

I was given a wonderful book for Christmas, Lonely Planet's Ultimate Travel List, 500 of the best places to visit on the planet.

There were two Tasmanian entries in the top 50. Mona came in at number 20 ahead of the Louvre (37), the Hermitage (46), Modern Tate (52) and the Uffizi (89).

It is quite a considerable honour for Mona, topping the world's best and right on our own doorstep, congratulations.

Cradle Mountain came in at 32, with Uluru 33, the English Lake District 36 and Kakadu at 56.

So what you ask? Lonely Planet is probably the most widely read travel guide in the world. We often apologise for Tasmania but we can hold our head up high.

A New Year is upon us and unfortunately, the world seems to be in chaos.

The USA government closure threat, Brexit, France riots, trouble in Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Arabia, Afghanistan, North Korea, China accused of hacking and Russian aggregation.

It is a time of threats, posturing and ill feelings. The world has so many problems to be solved, but countries are intent in throwing stones at one another.

With the world’s population increasing rapidly we face so many other serious problems, food, water, housing, energy, climate and sustainability. 

It seems that our leaders have egos bigger than their capabilities.

No one can justifiably say who is right or wrong but our current path has us always on edge and it needs addressing.

Cut the posturing rhetoric and work together in harmony to improve and face the humongous tasks ahead.

A simple wish but an almost impossible one. May 2019 bring us peace, goodwill and harmony. Happy New Year.

Scientists at James Cook University just published research findings that prove “corals are one of the least likely species to be affected by climate change”.

Apparently the dreaded, apocalyptic bleaching is a naturally occurring phenomenon in coral and, by and large, it will recover.

Junk science falsely claims that between 93 per cent or 50 per cent or 30 per cent of the reef coral, depending upon which junk scientist you believe, has died. 

This new research proves that only about 8 per cent of the Barrier Reef coral is dead. That sounds like a lot till you factor in the 250 per cent increase of Barrier Reef coral.

Other significant anomalies were also scientifically corrected in this most recent research. Malcolm Turnbull gave almost one half of a billion of our dollars to his wife’s mates at the Great Barrier Reef Foundation to further entrench junk science. 

Can we now claim a refund?

I hate seeing the amount of junk food that is been sold to consumers especially in Devonport.

You now have strawberries sold by the two main supermarket chains that may look good but they have no taste and are hard as rocks, very similar to the tomatoes. 

Supermarkets push old stock that has been kept for ages in cool stores where the potatoes and onions become spongy, the meat especially mince deteriorates in quality, costs a fortune and is very chewy.

Ordinary cream is like water, thickened cream is nothing less than a cheap cream. 

Even Beta cream promoted as Tasmanian fairs no better. It is about time our weak governments’ enforce product labelling and that wouldn't go far enough because our governments' have sold us out to overseas. 

Stand up people at the next election, the major parties have done us bad.