Now my understanding is there are laws against the exploitation of children. Why is it then that the leader of the free world can justify the crime of child exploitation?

I was very disappointed to hear that the Labor Party in Tasmania has dropped its anti-pokies policy.

A monopoly on gambling should be stopped and it's why the opposition cannot just oppose others in the parliament to vote against extending the licence.

I strongly suspect if there wasn't a federal election coming this year, this policy would have been kept. 

Now I think Legislative Council members should be approached to stop this extension, I do hope so and I for one will be emailing them in regards to this. 

Think of all the families who have suffered and continue to suffer. 

Widowed people in this state have blown their savings also homes after losing their loved one. It is so distressing to hear the facts about some whom this has happened to. Dollars again before people, millionaires taking money from our state.

Governments anywhere should be ashamed of taking gambling money. Andrew Wilkie has it right and the good work he is doing should be commended. Pity others only following party lines.

Why can’t the persons responsible for the black and white “keep left” signs in the middle of the roads, change the white background to yellow?

They would make them easier to see, especially at night and safer.

IN 2013, as an 80-year-old pensioner, I spent $4195.92 to install solar panels.

I was encouraged to install them by Aurora’s factsheet that stated: “This installation will allow you to generate your own electricity. You will be doing your part to reduce greenhouse gasses.”

As further encouragement, Aurora provided a solar ‘feed-in’ tariff of 28.283 cents per KWH.

There was no suggestion that a time limit applied to this contractual agreement.

In 2019, I now find that Aurora has rescinded its original subsidy offer.

They have now advised that the new tariff will be 8.541 cents per KWH.

It goes without saying that there has not been a corresponding increase to my pension allowance over the past five years.

Tasmanians have the lowest national incomes, highest petrol, water, power and service costs. 

We are also at the mercy of a power monopoly that cares little for the agreements made in good faith with the general public.

Aurora was grateful for the extra feed-in electricity provided by solar to support the state when the Basslink was damaged.

My son in Queensland had a tariff that remains in force until the end of his life, or the property is sold.  Without the impact of competition in Tasmania, it is apparent Aurora feels it can operate on a different ethical basis.

In regard to the recent attempt to have legislation passed to have gender removed from birth certificates, it's occurred to me that it just wouldn't work because the baby's Christian name would be a dead giveaway.

If the first name was Rosemary, Jennifer, Penelope or Caroline, the new-born would obviously be identified as a girl.

Likewise, if it were John, Richard, Benjamin or Phillip, it would reveal it was a boy.

I can offer two solutions to the problem. 

Have a law passed banning parents from giving their children first names until they are old enough to decide whether they want to be male or female or only allow parents to give their children non-gender first names like Knife, Fork, Spoon or Hammer. 

As a guide for parents, Jackhammer would be considered too sexist.

Let me know how you go with that.

How has our society got to such a state that pill testing is being considered for shows like Party in the Paddock?

Pills as we know them are only given on a doctor’s prescription.

So what the hell are these kids taking and doing to themselves when they don’t even know what they are putting in their mouths and we have to police them and tell them, yes this one’s ok and no that one isn’t.

Wake up kids for a five-minute buzz you could end up dead or a vegetable.

If you don’t have a doctor's prescription for the pills you want to pop don’t for your own sake.

Labor recognises wealthy shareholder have already paid tax on some shares and makes due allowance for this. 

So why doesn’t it do this for shareholders that shouldn’t pay tax at all? 

Surely if the tax office has made a mistake by taking tax off persons who, by law, should not pay tax then this tax must be returned.  

When they discover they’ve made a mistake by not charging sufficient tax they most certainly don’t hesitate to send out a tax demand to correct this mistake.