Lake Leake
ONCE again, the people of Campbell Town are being treated like idiots by the managers of Lake Leake, the Elizabeth/Macquarie Irrigation Trust (EMIT).
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The Elizabeth river could be a most valuable recreation asset to everyone if only we could trust the EMIT to do the right thing when moving water from private dams through the irrigation system, via the river.
Why should we be left wondering why the river is so low, or the water is so dirty when there hasn’t been any rain. On complaining about the low flow in the river I was told a farmer had actually released water into the river from his own dam but I wasn’t told why.
No doubt that is why the river has been so dirty for a period and one must ask what was the quality of that water? Two days after my complaint, the water in the river is very clean but the quantity is the same.
There are very few irrigators between Campbell Town and Lake Leake but I believe one of them believes they have a God-given right to use our river system as they please. Not so.
Bill Chugg, Campbell Town.
Electricity prices
I THINK Mr Barnett is contradicting himself in his letter (The Examiner, January 10) in regards to the lowest electricity prices in Australia. In one paragraph Mr Barnett says that "we have the lowest regulated prices in Australia", and in the next paragraph he says that "the government will achieve the lowest regulated price in Australia by 2022". Which paragraph has the correct information?
Finally, and in addition to the foregoing, it is only right that we should have the lowest utility prices, after all, we have the lowest paid workers in the nation.
If Mr Barnett is sincere about lowering power prices, he should give very serious consideration to reducing the laughingly called supply charge, which after all is basically the government's kick back.
Gerry Kite, Legana.
Petrol prices
THE RACT, ACCC and governments, both state and federal, do a lot of complaining about the excessive cost of petrol in Tasmania as opposed to the rest of Australia. But not one of them has the courage to actually do something about it.
If one of those organisations bought one petrol station in a city in each region – North, South, East, West – and set up in opposition to the major supermarkets and barons squeezing the life out of us, we would finally get some petrol at reasonable prices.
David Champ, Newnham.
Women’s Rights
TRANS rights activists in Tasmania are making claims of entitlement to the recognition of their individual rights and law reforms that are indeed spurious.
No one has the right to redefine what it is to be a woman. No one has the right to decide that male-bodied persons, who claim to be women, must have priority over female-bodied persons in women-only spaces. No one has the right to tell women that they are now a subclass of women and will be called cis women.
No one has the right to claim trans-rights support inclusiveness when this will result in the exclusion of women. No one has the right to support legislation that will subordinate women to transwomen and put women at risk or disadvantage.
Isla MacGregor, Fern Tree.
