SECOND CHANCE FOR HOTEL
AFTER reading (The Examiner, March 17) that the JAC Group are planning to try and build the Gorge Hotel again, I imagine there will be plenty of people excited about the proposal; there will be people like myself who welcome the chance for more employment opportunities and, equally excited, those that will oppose the development.
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The opposers will be excited at the prospect of another campaign, people to organise, phone calls to be made, letters to be written, rallies to organise, banners to be made - what a wonderful time to be alive.
Peter Wilson, Newstead.
PARTY FLYER 'RUBBISH'
DEAR Clive Palmer,
On Sunday, March 14, I received one of your party's flyers in my letterbox discounting the government's roll-out of the COVID-19 vaccine. This flyer suggests that the roll-out should have been delayed until there were one, three and five-year data from vaccine trials-what a lot of rubbish.
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The production of a vaccine was fast-tracked by many universities and pharmaceutical companies worldwide in a process to make a safe vaccine, and this has been achieved. Millions around the world and thousands in Australia have received a vaccine injection, there have been some adverse reactions, but these can happen with any vaccine.
If the government had taken on your suggestion, the national community would still have COVID-19 lockdown rules in place for years. You and your party have no credibility, especially re health issues, and I ask that you put no more rubbish in my letterbox.
Your flyer has been put in the appropriate place, the rubbish bin.
Alan Leitch, Austins Ferry.
TRANSPARENCY FOR COURTS
THANKS to COVID-19, the public gallery in courts are now closed.
Charges are no longer included on daily court lists, and the magistrates court does not provide any information about pleading.
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Should you find yourself a victim of a crime, you cannot easily find out what has happened with the person accused.
All court proceedings, apart from those closed to protect witnesses or victims, should be live audio streamed for any citizen to listen in real-time.
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Written transcripts should be free, while public galleries are closed.
An open court system is one of the three pillars of our democracy and keeping it open via technology is trivial.
Bradley Goldsmith, Launceston.
RIVERSIDE BRIDGE NEEDED
THIS needs to be done in conjunction with the development that is taking place at the university. To help alleviate traffic snarls and give Tasmanian residents easier access to the West Tamar and vice versa.
Things should be getting better, not worse.
Sharon Blackwell, Scottsdale.
SPIRITS COMPROMISE
NOW that the Spirits replacement is solved, maybe the Tasmanian government could get The TT-Line and Incat to work together on a proposal for an upgrade of the Vic-King Island-NW Tas route. So that in three to five years, there is a plan to upgrade tourist input to King Island and Tasmania.
Norm Pitt, Melbourne.
HOORAY for our amazing Grace Tame, along with others like Brittany Higgins and other brave women, for speaking out against violence and sexual abuse.
It is so inspiring to see so many women standing up and demanding change to the unacceptable way they have been treated in the past and continue to be.
To learn what so many women have had to endure in the past has been heartbreaking, but it is comforting to know, through their strength, they have remained strong and resilient.
To continue speaking up, don't stay silent; change is coming.
Wonderful too, at last, to know that some of our children will not have to live in fear wondering when they are next going to be sexually abused but can live happy, carefree lives as is their right as children.
Thank you all, ladies, for what you are achieving; you have my admiration and my love.
Linda Collier, Legana.
PM'S FAILURE IS DISAPPOINTING
PRIME Minister Scott Morrison's failure to address the Canberra March4Justice protest last Monday was very disappointing, but to offer three protestors the opportunity to discuss matters behind closed doors in his office may be deemed as a feeble attempt to ameliorate protestors in an environment that he controls.
The Prime Minister's Trump-like comment regarding protesting outside of Parliament House without being shot was extraordinary, considering the people of Myanmar are currently protesting against a coup d'état by its own military, overturning the result of a recent democratic election.
Kenneth Gregson, Swansea.
NO JUSTICE IN CANBERRA BUBBLE
WELL, all you good people who marched with the Women's March4Justice now know exactly what your prime minister thinks of you. He'll quite willingly meet with representatives in his office - where he feels comfortable, in control. There he will sit and listen to your grievances, nod sagely and promise to look into things.
Then he'll usher you out and in no time will have dismissed you from his thoughts.
Unlike other members of his and most parties, what he won't do is come out and speak to you en masse and face the music.
Not only him but his Minister for Women no less takes a similar approach.
It's just appalling that they don't seem to care as long as they're safely tucked away in their ACT bubble.