The premier says that our laws don't apply to the airports on the mainland and that the airlines won't check their passengers for valid passes.

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The solution is simple. If the airline comes here, they send details of all passengers on the plane to the department in charge of airports.

If they have passengers on board who do not have valid passes, then the simple answer is that we just deny the landing.

I AM currently staying in a quarantine hotel in Devonport.

As I am an early riser I was surprised to see tradies who are staying here go off to work for the day and then come back in the evening.

I, however, am unable to go outside my room. If quarantine hotels are meant to protect the wider Tasmanian community why are tradies allowed out on day release? Why am I not allowed to go outside my room?

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On another note, I was contacted by the Tasmanian police to say that my G2G pass has been changed to home quarantine.

This was confirmed via email. I was pretty excited to be going home. However, on Thursday, without explanation I received a further email to say my G2G pass had been changed back to a hotel quarantine order.

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I was naturally disappointed. This leads me to believe that this government and police force have no idea what their strategy is for COVID and obviously are so out of touch they don't care about people's mental state.

Incidentally a person was allowed into Tasmania by the police having not completed the relevant documentation before arrival. I am not against quarantine hotels, but the same rules should be applied to everyone.

RE THE proposed Gorge Hotel development. Surely Launcestonians will not let big brother build this huge multi-storey glass hotel for the rich, on one side to view Cataract Gorge, while Suzie and family are dwarfed by the building.

Suzie Cai (The Golden Brumby) is a Queechy-schooled girl who has, with her husband, raised a family, some of whom are now through to university, and she is now up against sheer threats and wealth.

As for Launceston, the last of the state's great Georgian architecture is gradually being wiped out for profits for the rich.

The city councillor, who is a construction industry person, publicly saying he supports the glass house for his industry friends should have declared a conflict of interest and removed himself from debate and vote.

Suzie's problem can be fixed by city council and the conglomerate by relocating her business and home "council approved", to a new building in the Brisbane Street car park opposite the college at no cost to her and of her design and compensation for appeals, advertising, debts and angst. Please no glass above six storeys except normal windows facing east, further the conglomerate to fund any need for fire brigade extensions vehicles.

May as well move the college and give that to another conglomerate in hospitality as the profits leave Tasmania.

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Another example of the David and Goliath conglomerate world we live in.

Many ordinary people of the area use Suzie's business regularly and I doubt this will be the case with the new monolith being proposed.

Is the council representative of the people that fund them or the major corporations?

GIVEN the gravity of the situation all offenders should be named, shamed and penalised like other offenders as a warning and a deterrent. Perhaps add 20 hours of community service to each offence.

There is so much at stake here, deaths from COVID, hospitals overwhelmed, the brave efforts of frontline workers wasted, lockdowns, economic devastation, and a smashed state budget to name a few.

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I have reason to believe that not all offenders have been penalised.

This is not a time to go soft or show leniency.

I NOTE that Twiggy Forrest is intending to build a 250kw green hydrogen plant at Bell Bay.

I also read that Peter Gutwein has announced the intention for Tasmania to have net-zero carbon emissions by 2030.

Perhaps if we went ahead with the Gordon below Franklin dam, and stopped selling our renewable energy to Victoria, both aims could be realised?

GREAT news for Tasmanian energy that three of the nation's top 10 wind generators are located in Tasmania.

In particular, the Granville Harbour wind farm, at number 1, produced 5 per cent of Tasmania's total electricity demand in August "Tasmanian wind farm leads the nation, two others in top 10" (The Examiner, October 13).

Scaling this up means that the whole of Tasmania could be powered with only 20 comparable farms.

However, in reality far fewer will be needed. The University of Technology Sydney's map of offshore wind shows the best winds in the country are in Tasmanian waters.

Now that the federal government has finally introduced the Offshore Electricity Infrastructure Bill 2021 to the Australian parliament, the next generation of giant offshore turbines will soon be harvesting wind energy for Tasmania.

With wind, hydro and the Marinus link, Tasmania is well positioned to become a major player in Australia's energy grid of the future.