MEDICAL ATTENTION 'AS GOOD AS IT GETS'
I HAVE just recently had to spend a few days in the Launceston General Hospital for a leg operation.
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The attention I received there was second to none. The nurses, albeit running off their feet, were brilliant in doing their job.
The follow-up appointment at the orthopaedic was as good as it gets.
The help from them was brilliant.
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What is so annoying is reading all these comments from politicians and unions and other health advocates that put this hospital and its staff down.
Yes, the staff are doing extra shifts because of shortages, but they must really get depressed when they read some of these comments. I thank the staff at the LGH for all the help given to me.
Cyril Patmore, Poatina.
GORGE HOTEL MISINFORMATION
MIKE Grey's correspondence (The Examiner, October 18) makes the claim that some of Launceston's wonderful Georgian heritage buildings are slowly being wiped out to make way for contemporary developments/profit making and it is simply not true.
I cannot think of one instance in recent times where any of our wonderful, and functional/salvageable, Georgian-style buildings have been demolished.
And in the case of the 1830s-era old flour warehouse (also known as the cordial factory) it, and two other Georgian-style buildings on the site, the opposite is true as they were saved from decades of neglect and decay as part of the C H Smith restoration and development, done by local developer and investor Errol Stewart.
As to the site for the proposed Gorge Hotel, there are no Georgian-style buildings in that direct vicinity that would be demolished. The site consists of a car park, petrol station and 1950s-era hotel building.
Geoff McLean, Launceston.
A BREATH OF FRESH AIR
MY HEART goes out to the long-term residents of our cherished West Launceston neighbourhoods who are subjected to the unwanted Gorge Hotel proposal.
We are failing the long-term residents and thousands of tourists who visit to experience architectural history.
When will it stop?
Like many people in Launceston, I have been aghast at the way residents seem to be ignored and steam-rolled when it comes to large-scale developments.
Moving along we have the St.Luke'sHealth precinct proposal as reported in The Examiner (October 16).
What a breath of fresh air.
An exciting opportunity to revamp a former industrial area with new life.
I agree, the design certainly has great synergies with it's industrial neighbours.
With positive consultations with surrounding businesses and the community, I congratulate the designers.
Neighbouring heritage buildings will be fully restored and opened up for the public.
It is definitely a win, win for our residents, tourists and city council popular vote.
Bruce Webb, Launceston.
LAND TAX REDUCTION WELCOME
THIS week I had a pleasant surprise when I received something I had been dreading, my land tax account.
It has, following a review of the system, been reduced significantly from last year's shock assessment.
Credit must be given where it is due and I applaud the Gutwein government for having listened to the concerns of property owners and acting accordingly.
Such actions are rare in politics and the reductions are especially commendable given the difficulties all governments are facing in view of the issues resulting from the COVID epidemic and increasing pressure re climate change and other world wide issues.
I also applaud Labor member David O'Byrne for being one of the few on the other side of the political spectrum who, unlike some who saw concerned property owners as selfish, greedy capitalists, recognised the likely negative effects across the community of last year's unfair increases and showed visible support for a review.
Richard Lernnard, West Hobart.
SPINNING OUT OF CONTROL
NICK Steel in his opinion piece (The Examiner, October 15) spins the facts like a Shane Warne wrong'un.
He refers to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as stating that sustainable forestry management will mitigate climate change.
He spins a ball past the bat, fictionally extrapolating that old-growth forest clear-felling is helpful in curtailing these erratic weather events that are occurring now and will increase in our grandchildren's adult lives, and their children's lives.
His nondescript straight ball ignores the fact that the clear-felling of old-growth forests leads to about 70 to 90 per cent end up in a paper product, and the carbon from those products enters the atmosphere within about 12 months.
He follows up with another straight ball that ignores the burning of limb wood etc that provide the huge smoke plumes around Tassie in autumn.
His third nondescript straight ball is that continually ignoring the disturbance of the forest floor in a clear-felling operation ensures the carbon from the soil is released.
His leggie I can read clearly, and I will dispatch it to the boundary. He says the carbon stored from an old growth forest will take at least 10-15 years to replace with a new, young forest.
I agree, in this extremely serious climate we are in, we don't have that time.
Gordon Cuff, Lilydale.
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