There's been a lot of talk lately about the John Glover Prize and art. I thought I'd throw my two bobs worth into the ring.

My wife and I were recently in Melbourne on a short interstate trip. Interestingly, in the know that we don't have a waxwork museum in Launceston, we decided to visit one there.

While we can all complain about the quality of landscapes, particularly when they don't look like the thing they are supposed to, I noted with some interest that many waxwork figures resembled very closely their real-life counterparts.

My wife didn't know who David Foster was, but she was nonetheless shocked and impressed at meeting him in person in the wax museum. And how.

If only the John Glover Prize had such a category, instead of featuring artworks that we all could have done.

I for one would welcome it.

NO ONE can instil love or hate in Australians for or against Muslims or Islam.

This has been seen by the overwhelmingly positive response that I myself received after the brutal incident of Christchurch Mosque.

Australians stand by their Muslim fellows and this satisfies my soul because I, as an Ahmadi Muslim, have been taught by my religion Islam to love the country you live in.

And seeing the response and the acceptance for Muslims, I can openly show my love and appreciation towards Australia and its people.

I DON'T know how much more of this climate change I can take.

I go to sleep each night dreading the prospect of waking up to another golden sunrise, followed by a clear blue sky, perfect temperature, having to endure listening to the birds chattering in the trees all day and the scent of roses irritating my nostrils.

How I long for the "good old days" (before climate change ruined everything) when we would take the kids to the beach for the summer holidays and end up spending much of the time huddled in a tent playing snakes and ladders while we waited for the rain to stop.

But one must take seriously the warnings that "the end is nigh", so I'm off to enjoy what could be my last game of tennis before it all comes to an end.

He may have been born in Scotland, yet we considered him to be an Aussie through and through.

The West Australian Government has just paid $14,000 for a letter he wrote to a childhood friend.

Who is it you say?

Bon Scott, former lead singer of the legendary Aussie rock band ACDC.

Now that's government investing wisely.

IN response to Ross Warren's letter (The Examiner, March 24) the answer is pretty simple.

The commissioning of the Trevallyn Dam and power station diverted the vast majority of the South Esk flow from the top of the estuary at the Gorge and yacht basin to a point a few kilometres downstream at the bottom of Home Reach (the now Tailrace channel).

This meant lower flow velocities in the upper reaches as well as removing a large flow volume of silt-free water that historically kept the yacht basin and the southern bank of the now Seaport area pretty much free from mud.

It also created a dead spot for the already sewage contaminated waterbody.

There were and still are other contributing factors which the power station advent compounded and together these have reduced the waterway channel and from the city too well down the river.

CONGRATULATIONS to John Tucker on his election to state parliament in the recount for Rene Hidding's seat (The Examiner, March 25). While John is a state Liberal and I am federal Labor, I look forward to working with John in the best interests of our shared electorate.

I was pleased to see John mention the importance of irrigation - so I am sure he welcomes federal Labor's $100 million commitment over the weekend to funding the vital third stage of Tasmania's irrigation rollout, a scheme started under David Llewellyn, a former Labor Lyons MHA.

This funding will deliver water certainty to enable the development of new regional agriculture and jobs - rebuilding Tasmania's regions.

I was delighted, as a member of Tasmania's regional Labor team, along with Ross Hart in Bass and Justine Keay in Braddon, to be able to ensure this third rollout will occur under a federal Labor government.

THE Examiner's The State of Health is making Tasmanians out to be fat and lazy and have heaps of disabilities. Advocating the health system to shift from treating sick people to focus on well people makes no sense at all.

Sure some programs that try and get people with problems help to overcome them make sense, but getting the sick well must always be the prime objective here.

And with Tasmania with such an aging population treating those that are unwell is a never-ending problem that just gets worse year to year.

The government is doing a great job despite all the knockers.