Once I return to Tasmania, I am forced to quarantine at home for 14 days all whilst Victorians and Tasmanians that have stayed overnight in a known hotspot can continue to roam free due to being classed as essential.

The rules are a contradictory and a complete mess.

FIRST I would say congratulations to politicians of all parties on the way they co-operated and worked together for the good of all Australians, to control the spread of COVID-19. Compared to the rest of the world there were few infections and minimal deaths. Now the worst is over, or it seems the worst is over, there are the selfish few who flout any remaining regulations with no thought for anyone but themselves and their needs, even refusing to be tested and saying the virus is a hoax.

Similarly, the opposition is back to playing the "blame game " and wanting inquiries into how the Premier handled the situation and what he did wrong, and the media are adding fuel to the fire, blowing everything up out of all proportion.

Let's have attention given to those in dire need like the homeless, jobless, small businesses going broke. How about victims of the bushfires. What is being done for them (if anything)? What has happened to all the millions of dollars that were donated to help them, has any of that money reached the people for whom it was intended?

PARTS of Victoria has now been locked down because of the spread of COVID-19 cases and yet we let people come into Tasmania from these areas without mandatory testing or quarantining.

At this time it is more essential to prevent the spread of the virus into Tasmania than it is to allow so-called essential workers to have free access to our state.

All Tasmanians worked too hard to throw it away now and our government must rise to this new challenge.

If it is essential to bring people in (and this is debatable) then bring them in from some of the states that don't have such high COVID-19 spread and make sure they test negative before they are allowed in.

THE coach of Hawthorn, Alastair Clarkson, has stated that AFL football is "in a dreadful space". Geelong coach Chris Scott stated teams should be reduced to 16 a side to open up the game.

What both these senior AFL coaches and CEO, Gillion McLachlan simply do not understand is football, as it is played today, is not the same game as that which was played in the first 100 years of Australian Rules.

For the first 100 years, VFL football was an exciting, high-scoring game with wide-open spaces and high-marking full-forwards kicking 100 goals a season.

Football was an open game because it was contested between two teams with 18 players each. The 19th and 20th man were only there in case of an injury. If an injured player went off the ground he was not allowed to return to the field. For the first 100 years, it was a contest between 36 players, if a ruckman or rover tired during a quarter, he would go "off the ball" and rest in a forward or back pocket. This effectively reduced the number of players around the ball.

Today an AFL game is a contest between 44 players, a staggering 22 per cent increase on the original 36 players. Players now hunt the ball in large packs because no one rests off the ball, they rest off the ground with a fresh set of legs running onto the ground to continue the hunt for the ball in large packs.

AFL is a terrible spectacle today because the number of players contesting a match has increased from 36 to 44. How can you possibly increase the number of players contesting a match by eight without completely changing the very fabric of the game?

If the AFL is serious about opening the game up so spectators can enjoy open spaces and high scoring games the solution is simple: there should be only four interchanges allowed per quarter. Which is still 16 more interchanges per match than was the case for the first 100 years.

THE Premier is very popular and so he should be. When addressing the Tasmanian people, he is calm and precise, he doesn't make promises he cannot keep.

His best attribute being he never comments on other Tasmanian parties. So many times through the years, there is so much nitpicking. The Premier has shown great leadership, and I hope he will be Premier for many years to come.

PERHAPS it is time to revert to the original plan for the intersection of Invermay Road and Lindsay Street, that is install traffic lights. Traffic is backed up past Holbrook Street due to northbound traffic on Invermay Road. The problem will only get worse as the university development progresses.

SO HAPPY for Ross to keep its pool. I have spent many refreshing times there breaking my journey to and from Hobart.

Hardly ever saw a pool attendant, buying a ticket at a local shop. Noted there are (were) four banks of solar panels over the changerooms, and also noted that the pool was always clean, warm and inviting.

Did my laps and continued my journey refreshed. Thank you Ross pool - so glad you will stay there.