State of Tamar water quality
EXCELLENT and welcome news as it is that, according to the latest NRM North Tamar Estuary Report Card, water quality has marginally improved in the Tamar's upper reaches there still remains, as acknowledged, a lot of work to be done (The Examiner, July 21). One solution, while awaiting essential and outstanding sewage infrastructure upgrades, that will dramatically improve water quality, and virtually overnight too, is to restore water flows through the Cataract Gorge which were more than significantly reduced when the natural flows of the South Esk River were diverted in 1955 to facilitate the Trevallyn power station. Until this is implemented the Tamar's upper reaches, in respect of water quality, will continue to remain an environmental nightmare.
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Jim Collier, Legana.
Allow people to die with dignity
I STRONGLY believe and support the proposed Euthanasia Bill to be presented in August to the government by Mr Mike Gaffney MLC.
I thank him for the considerable time and effort he has put into preparing this Bill.
I appreciate the opponents point of view to this Bill but wonder if the Church community can truly believe that the good Lord would really want to see people suffering through incurable illnesses.
It seems incongruous to me that if an animal is beyond help it is put to sleep in a humane way and yet if a person is beyond all medical help that life cannot be ended in peace and with dignity. The safeguards that are in this Bill will provide security for patients and their families, in particular it will give terminally ill patients the choice to leave this life when it becomes intolerable.
I sincerely hope this Bill will be passed.
June Smith, PSM OAM, George Town.
UTAS is crying poor, but...
UTAS is crying poor and will have to let people go due to their dire financiers.
Yet they are going to fork out $5 million for a car park in Inveresk, they are buying a business near the Willis street car park and going ahead with their new buildings on a flood plain. Not to mention the millions spent on numerous properties in Hobart bought to house all their students.
Hello, I guess they have realised that many of those students, especially from China, won't be gracing the portals of UTAS any time in the near future.
Wouldn't it have been better to sell off some of those properties to make their bank accounts look healthier and just maybe they could revamp the Newnham campus instead of building an icon to their previous vice chancellor. I wonder what would happen if the powers that be decided to leave the hallowed halls of Oxford and Cambridge to rot in order to build new edifices in honour of their chancellors?
Glennis Sleurink, Launceston.
Advertising the Gambling State
WHAT'S in the message in (The Examiner, July 18) The West Coast "Not for the faint hearted" , "Conquer the silky-smooth tarmac curves through an iconic landscape": An attraction of games to get you dead?
In this full page advertisement two articulated trucks coming around the sharp corners of the highway through the denuded mountain landscape, are straddling the central white line.