Launceston Vigil
I attended the candle-lit vigil to show our support for the people of Christchurch and the Muslim community.
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It was heartening to see so many people come considering it was put together at short notice.
How amazing it would be if we could all come together as we did and also take a leaf out of New Zealand's book who have shown love and compassion to their Muslim immigrants and neighbours.
It would be wonderful if the whole world could behave as New Zealanders have done, but sadly it seems it takes a tragedy of gigantic proportions to bring us together.
Forget religion and think of people as human beings.
Glennis Sleurink, Launceston.
Political rhetoric
I AM fed up and deeply distressed with the double-edged rhetoric of our country's political leaders about the awfulness of the massacre in the New Zealand mosques.
Both major parties in Australia have successively condoned the cruel slow slaughter of the hearts, minds and souls of asylum seeking human beings banished indefinitely to the out of sight, offshore islands of Manus and Nauru.
Helen Tait, Launceston.
No religion
AS an Ahmadi Muslim Australian, the New Zealand terror attacks hit very close to home.
They reminded me of the deadly attacks on two Ahmadiyya Muslim mosques in Pakistan in 2010 where 94 people were brutally murdered at the hands of terrorists.
I acknowledge and commend that most of our political leaders have rightly called this terrorism because that is exactly what he intended to do.
However, this must not come as a surprise when leaders in Western nations are promoting a fear mongering rhetoric (Donald Trump, Tony Abbott, Fraser Anning, Pauline Hanson etc) against immigrants and Muslims in particular.
This type of hatred must be stamped out and we cannot afford to normalise these events that are part of everyday life in many countries across the world.
He wanted to kill all Muslims in the West and replace all mosques with churches.
He was a Christian. He was a terrorist.
But I will not glorify this as Christian terrorism because this defies the teachings and message of Jesus Christ.
Terrorism and terrorists have no religion.
Monus Shaikh, Spreyton.
Kate Weindorfer
ANOTHER book is now available regarding the life and times of the late Kate Weindorfer, of Cradle Mountain.
I wonder how many readers of The Examiner know about an earlier publication also about the late wife of Gustav Weindorfer.
The title of this book is Kate Weindorfer, The Woman behind the Man and the Mountain, beautifully written and researched by the author Sally Schnackenberg.
This publication is still in print, fourth printing was in 2007, and available in most libraries.
Robert Ballie, Prospect Vale.
Feed-in Tariff
SOME of your letter writers consider that they do not receive enough for the electricity that their solar systems feed into the Tasmanian electricity grid.
Hydro Tasmania can produce all of the states renewable energy requirements without any input from household solar panels, at a cost of almost half the 8.541c per kWh received by solar panel owners.
The feed-in tariff they receive is subsidised by other households like mine that do not have solar panels and it was recently stated that the subsidies for the installation of solar systems cost each household in Australia nearly $200 a year extra on their annual electricity bill.
To have a higher tariff would require the rest of us to pay higher power bills.
I would suggest that the tariff and the subsidies they receive from other households, many of whom are pensioners like myself are more than adequate.
They are fortunate that they can afford to install solar panels.
John Boyle, Riverside.
Jihadist Brides
IT was with a heavy heart that I listened to the Australian jihadi bride informing the world that it was just not good enough, the food and treatment in the UNHCR refugee camp. Such a shame.
Did she spare a thought for the murdered or displaced within the evil caliphate?
I think she has got off lightly, these women were more than breeding stock, they fought as well, so she is in the right place for all time.
Peter Taylor, Midway Point.
Eastern Ring Road
RESIDENTS along the de facto Eastern Ring Road, Quarantine, Johnston, St Leonards, Ravenswood and Vermont roads should be aware that on February 7, 2000, a spokesman from the state government's Infrastructure Energy and Resources told the then Launceston City Council that "Launceston would have a new highway, part of the Eastern Ring Road, between Hoblers Bridge Road and Henry Street Bridge within four years".
Where is this Highway?
In the following years, other planned sections could have been constructed.
I understand the finance for this project was diverted to the Causeway Bridge at Midway Point.
Residents along the de facto Eastern Ring Road should ask; why no noise from the City of Launceston who have failed them with their silence in letting the state get away with this commitment and the rest of the Eastern Ring Road.