She told Mr Morrison to "drop his attitude". If anyone needs to drop their attitude it is Ms Lambie, who is so often confrontational, angry and self-absorbed with her own grievances, and this latest outburst gives the impression she is more interested in personal revenge than what is best for the country.

Obviously, those who voted for Ms Lambie want her to fight hard for Tasmania but it would be self-defeating if, to try and achieve that, she blocked vital government legislation that will benefit the lives of all Australians, including those from her own state. Angry people rarely make wise decisions. Here's hoping Ms Lambie will ditch the anger and serve Tasmania and Australia well with wise deliberation when voting in the Senate.

Planning of major constructions is done from the bottom up.

The Gorge Hotel proposal concerns me in the lack of planning for what happens to the discharge downwards from the visiting bottoms in each of 145 toilets, which as things stand at present is going eventually to arrive in the Tamar.

The lure of visitors' money should not overwhelm the health aspects with which the city and other councils are involved.

AT the time of a Royal Commission and it would appear, a deluge of complaints about residential aged care, I would like to describe my wife's experiences.

Maggie was a patient at Peace Haven, the Masonic Home at Queechy.

Both she and I had nothing but complimentary remarks to make about the care she received. Her room was large, airy and entirely suitable for the purpose.

The individual bathroom facilities were also excellent, designed for a handicapped person.

We were able to individualise her room with items of furniture and familiar objects from home. In the critical area of staffing, I was always impressed with their prompt and gentle attentiveness.

Meals (and I shared many with my Maggie) were substantial and nourishing.

All involved in the functioning of this facility deserve praise.

That Maggie is no longer with us, is my heart-wrenching loss to bear, but I find solace in knowing her last months were filled with the loving care of her family and the home in which she resided.

DON'T count your chickens before they're hatched, don't believe the polls and don't get the tape measure out until you know for certain. The media hyped up a certain Labor victory and the polls were the be all and end all. Congratulations to Jacqui Lambie who appears to be elected again. This after she had little money to splash around on adverts and the like. Now we sit back and see what happens.

JIM Collier's letter (The Examiner, May 14) is very true, the City of Launceston council is doing next to nothing for the health of the ratepayers. The Tamar River and its health should be its No.1 priority the practice of still discharging raw sewage into the river should have been rectified years ago.

The council makes the excuse that it's TasWater's problem and TasWater says that by 2023 or thereabouts the discharge will be cut to a safer level. There is only one safe level of discharge and that's zero, nil, nothing.

Money is being wasted hand over fist on doing sweet nothing.

IMAGINE this, all Australian city inhabitants are driving city cars, come 5.30pm they all head home and plug into charge, and the result would be a massive blackout.

By all means, electric cars are the future but they need to be introduced slowly.

Like many others, I have installed solar panels at a considerable cost and was given 28 cents per unit that my system delivers to Hydro, but now after five years when they have barely paid for themselves they are only paying 8 cents per unit.

In other words, I have paid $3500 to install them so now the Hydro get to sell my surplus and make a profit of expenditure which when cables are laid will also be sold to the mainland in times of need. Where's the fairness in that Premier Will Hodgman?

AS a graduate for 51 years of the University of Tasmania (founded 1890), I was upset, almost distressed, that the university was placed in the same category as Murdoch University (Western Australia), as far as entry English language requirements for overseas students is concerned.

The situation in Tasmania has been described as dodgy.

I can imagine no more humiliating situation than overseas students being in a strange environment and unable to cope because of poor English in their studies.

I hope the new vice-chancellor is dealing with this sad situation.