They need to be enforced 24/7, not just now and again with a so-called blitz.

I am not surprised at the number of offences detected recently and that was on a day when it was raining as well.

Why can't we have a permanent highway patrol like they do in other states.

The Southern Outlet and West Tamar Highway would be an ideal place to monitor, that is of course if the law enforces are genuinely serious about road safety in Tasmania.

UNSURPRISINGLY, Tasmanian Forest Products Association chief executive Nick Steel sees Australia's unique remaining forests as a resource to be managed (The Examiner, August 15). The notion of "sustainable forest management", which he quotes, is outdated and inappropriate. Perhaps 100 years ago before chainsaws, mulchers and masticators, when only individual trees were selected, forestry was sustainable.

But now, large coupes are clear-felled and most of the remaining biomass is burnt releasing carbon emissions to the atmosphere and sterilising the soil. Instead of being made into furniture lasting hundreds of years, logs are chipped and shipped overseas for papermaking. Modern foresters like Steel, see trees purely as a money-making resource. The habitat native forests provide to increasingly endangered species is irrelevant, even annoying. Forest management should only apply to plantations.

It is not an appropriate term for native forests or wilderness. In this time of rapid biodiversity loss, the clearfelling of Australia's unique remaining native forests must cease.

ONCE again the Western powers have promised fidelity to Islamic peoples, and have turned their backs after having promised them undying support. The marsh Arabs of southern Iraq, conned into defiance of Saddam's regime, were utterly destroyed after abandonment. Trump's vile and traitorous backstabbing of the West's ardent allies, the beleaguered Kurdish people's liberation army, the only effective force against ISIS.

And here we go again. Why would any of our allies in the Muslim world trust us again? For weeks we promised to extract our embedded allies. What happened?

INTERESTING to see the Bob Brown Foundation releasing its policy on feral deer in line with a Senate inquiry that had six Labor senators and three Greens conducting it. Both groups coming to the same conclusion and saying that recreational hunting is of very little value to controlling game and has no place in society now and has no financial benefits, have now decided and going to support the RSPCA'S idea of a more humane control for deer that being cyanide poisoning by what they call baiting.

How disgusting. Hunting brings in millions of dollars a year and if poison is the answer for them they have lost the plot; barbaric.

IT was with great disappointment that we read the national article written about the late Sergeant Ian Turner, a soldier from Launceston whose parents Mike and Pat Turner still reside in the West Tamar (The Examiner, August 13).

Sergeant Turner was a victim of post-traumatic stress disorder who took his life and cannot defend himself in the current case until his death before the NSW Coroners Court. We believe the details in this article are inappropriate considering the recent anniversary of his death and the great distress that will be caused to Mike, Pat and their close family. Sergeant Turner served in the Australian Army for 17 years.

He was deployed on operations to East Timor, Afghanistan, Iraq and other international deployments in warfighting roles and as a result suffered from PTSD.

PTSD symptoms usually begin early, within three months of the traumatic incident, but sometimes they begin years afterwards.

The course of the illness varies.

Some veterans recover within six months, while others have symptoms that last much longer. In some veterans, the condition becomes chronic causing sufferers to take their own life. SGT Turner was one such veteran. On behalf of the veteran community of Launceston, we express our disappointment in the poor timing of the article.

Sergeant Turner cannot defend himself, but we can. If you or somebody you know needs help, contact Lifeline on 13 11 14.

I DEFY anyone to turn right from Lindsay Street onto the Charles Street bridge at peak hour without breaking the law.

With a steady flow of approaching traffic, plus the possibility of pedestrians crossing, the only way to get around is by going through an amber or red light. I have witnessed this many times and have done it myself, otherwise a lengthy queue is created, stretching down towards the river, and making it difficult for vehicles to exit Bunnings car park. There is of course the option of taking the longer route behind Bunnings, but the problem could so easily be solved by the installation of a green arrow.