Discussion Needed
I certainly hope there is a whole lot more public consultation on the proposed Launceston Cataract Gorge and skyway plan than the skyline decision made by the council a number of years back.
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Even now as I walk and talk with tourists on my way through the Gorge, there are comments as to why there is a private dwelling disrupting the skyline (I still shake my head at that decision).
I'm neither for or against the current proposal but let's have a very informed public discussion on the issue, for if we get this one wrong the sky just may fall in.
Robert Lee, Summerhill.
Enjoy the beauty
OUR Launceston Gorge is magnificent.
We already have an unnecessary chairlift traversing the centre of this beautiful location.
It is hard to believe that anyone could propose an even more imposing side-show-alley type "development" for this stunningly beautiful natural phenomenon.
We have a tourism drawcard within the confines of our city that is unique and well known by travellers near and far.
It is appreciated daily by scores of locals and visitors.
It rightly belongs to the people of Tasmania and should never be allowed to become a project that would destroy the very thing that people go to the Gorge to enjoy.
Brendon Hextall, Trevallyn.
Ambience will be lost
IF the proposed Gorge Hotel and the massive infrastructure required to build the Launceston Skyway go ahead then the beautiful Cataract Gorge, in its unique position a stone's throw from the Central Business District, will lose its peaceful, wilderness ambience.
There should be no encroachment in this natural paradise.
After all, that is the reason why visitors come in the first place.
We do not want the Gorge turned into a theme park.
Estelle Ross, Riverside.
Buy Power Station
BETTER to take up public subscription and buy the Trevallyn Power Station, and close it down.
Return the Gorge to its former glory, and flush out the Tamar River.
Everything is spoiling natural assets including the cable car.
Increased tourism would soon pay for power station I am sure. A tram running to the original entrance would be a plus.
Barry Holmes, Evandale.
Alcohol in School Grounds
HOW hypocritical that someone can go to a school fundraiser for all the family and they are selling craft beer and wine.
Of course to adults only, but crikey. If you smoke within three metres of the gate you are given the lepers look.
Taxis will be very busy in the morning in bringing either mum or dad to get the family car, as they say, do not drink and drive as one drink is too many when behind the wheel of a car.
If you have a designated driver that is terrific.
When are they holding a smokers fair?
Cheryl Williams, Launceston.
Homelessness problem
NO brainer indeed Kerryn Burns (The Examiner, June 21), however, I am sad to say I would rather live or die in a shipping container or on the street (and I have experienced life on the street) than set foot in any homeless shelter here in this state or country.
People living on the street have infinitely warmer hearts than the "holier than thou", "beggars cannot (or must not) be choosers", Stalag bureaucracy behind the treatment of homeless people and whistleblowing staff within well-respected shelters today.
"Australia is a classless society" - rubbish.
Homeless person, politician, millionaire, preacher, we all have a choice, however, when people would rather choose to live on the street or in shipping containers than set foot in a homeless shelter.
While our politicians continue to vote for unhealthy, unbalanced profit that drips poison and half-hearted employment like Chinese water torture through the community, rather than seriously address the housing crisis and other vital services, we witness the whole truth of the systemic inhumanity of democracy.
Deb Johnston-Andrews, Newnham.
Gallery closures
THE article in (The Examiner, June 22) advising that the Colonial and Federation galleries at QVMAG are to be shut for a year is simply another example of the council's disastrous management of QVMAG over a number of years.
The council spent millions of ratepayer dollars to move all the art from the Royal Park site to Inveresk, and then they spent a few million more to move it all back again.
Now they want to close the two galleries that are most appealing to visitors to Launceston.
The suggestion that those visitors can look at the art online is a joke.
Those same visitors could save a lot of money by visiting Launceston online instead of actually coming here (and it would also reduce the need for parking in the CBD).
Stuart Roberts, Newstead.
Betting Adverts
I'M willing to bet the betting adverts at all grounds is the way they groom these young players to bet.
Max Wells, Sorell.
What Global Warming?
A FEW weeks ago the weather gurus blithely informed us that we were going to have a warmer than usual winter.
May I just ask, where is it?