Burnt-out rubbish bins in the mall and dirty pedestrian pathways are a disgrace. Trust me last Sunday family shopping was evident to this horror.

Praise must be given to the new way-faire tourist signs erected all over Launceston City, why even locals were spotted navigating their way around by their signs.

Can not our Launceston councillors encourage a city-wide community event to mobilise hundreds of volunteers to pitch-in to spit and polish our city and at the same time raise much needed money to help charities? Can not streets, lane-ways be adopted under a new city's adopt-a-street program? Those who have argued passionately for the inner city to be cleaned up are becoming extremely angry at the lack of interest by our voted in representatives.

The responsibilities of adoption are relatively easy, such as reporting issues using council's new app, Snap, Send, Solve.

Thankfully, some residents are helping clean up their neighbourhoods.

However our city is still in need of a massive sweep of love, and the fast-food companies and coffee purveyors about town should step up to help sponsor this clean-up campaign. Now is not the time to turn our backs on our glorious history and public spaces where many interstate and overseas tourists will hopefully be taking refuge.

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THE government minimises increases for all pensions and low paid workers by claiming no inflation.

Last year they put childcare into their measurement of inflation so when they temporarily reduced childcare costs they claimed that took total inflation into negative so pensions were frozen.

But now my house insurance is up 20 per cent, car insurance 9 per cent, medical 4 per cent A tradesman was $65 an hour now $95, handyman $35 now $55.

House rents through the roof. As for the supermarket, politicians obviously don't go there. Meanwhile corporate profits up, business raking it in, rich people making fortunes in the stock market and playing with houses.

And now a tax reduction for those earning more than $300,000 to give them a pay rise of more than a full annual pension. This is the government that characterised our social strata as "lifters and leaners" and they are certainly pushing that gap ever wider.

ONCE again, Eric Abetz, under the guise of "calling out" the ABC, screams hypocrisy and bias against the poor old conservatives of the constituency. But then, he calls Israel a "liberal democracy which also believes in the rule of law in the Middle East".

No less than eight parties will now form a coalition replacing the ousted Netanyahu - I for one cannot wait until we have a democratic representation that is not simply conservative versus left, neo liberal capitalist patriarchy versus progressive moderate, or Abetz versus anyone who strays from his conservative cause.