Mona Foma
CONGRATULATIONS to the artist and organisers of Mona Foma. We went to the Gorge and “Man” is just awesome. Thousands of people there on a warm evening and sadly no forward thinking by CoL, the cafe was closed. Not a food or coffee van in sight - such a shame and a wasted opportunity.
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Sue Saunders, Prospect Vale.
Old-fashioned service
IT SEEMS that old fashioned service will soon be replaced by machines.
On two occasions lately, I have been at the Campbell Town branch of the Commonwealth Bank to make two or three transactions over the counter and been told politely that this could be done at the ATM. On January 9, I went to the counter to make three transactions. At first, I gave the teller, a mature lady, my bank card and asked for some cash out. Her immediate response was “not confident with the ATM?” There were no other customers in the bank at this time, so they were not busy. I often use the ATM but think I should be able to choose either.
DE Thomas, Campbell Town.
Renewables in Tasmania
WHY the disappointment by Anne Layton-Bennett with our local and state governments regarding solar panels not being mandatory in planning regulations?
Is she not aware that the state is 90 per cent renewable hydro-electric generation with a large chunk of wind power as well and looking to add wind power-pumped hydro?
Fitting buildings with mandatory solar panels would be a grotesquely inefficient way of mandating renewables vs simply continuing down the renewable path it started on decades ago.
In this state, it would simply be doubling down on the hydro investment.
If the answer is to sell the excess to the mainland, then the smarter solution would be for the mainlanders to mandate solar panels and all those vile, black-roofed off-the-plan dog boxes they are building and plant an awful lot of trees in their treeless cul de sac commuter warrens with all that bitumen and concrete infill.
That indicates the real planning problem.
Mike Seward, South Launceston.
Bill Shorten
I apologise to Dave Robinson (The Examiner, January 12) on my comments on Bill Shorten. It was not meant to offend, however, I never pass disparaging remarks without good reason.
Unlike many, I have spent some time with Bill Shorten as an elected local government member at the Beaconsfield Mine disaster.
During this time I found him to be an overpowering, incentive individual.
Two weeks in the company of this self-opinionated person was enough.
As union secretary of this disaster, he relentlessly sought constant media exposure.
While concerned councillors volunteered their services, he made the comment he was on 24-hour remuneration on strikes and disasters.
It was only evident later he was posturing for his union-funded run for federal government.
He tried so hard to outshine the genuinely concerned hard-working Mayor Barry Easther. Sorry Dave, in my opinion, he was so disappointing and deserves my comment of unworthy.
Peter Doddy, Trevallyn.
