8/2/22 The Mercury article ‘Push to plate up deer’ (February 8) highlighted two sides of a very important triangle: Restauranteur Eladio Doniz is absolutely correct pointing out the delicious taste attributes and health benefits associated with eating wild...
7/2/22 Whilst I agree with Jess Coughlan (Mercury 7 February) about the degradation of our aquatic eco-system due to aquaculture activity I strongly disagree that the answer is to “move the entire farming system on land”. There is no doubt our aquaculture...
30/01/22 The Mercury editorial of 29 Jan relating to our extreme housing emergency highlighted three key issues: The conflict of interest the State beaucracy has by accepting the stamp duty associated with inflated house prices and then attempting to deal with the...
18/01/22 Ella Haddad is correct in calling out the 150 successful Granny flat grant applicants a ‘drop in the ocean’, compared to the thousands of applicants the scheme attracted. The shortfall in uptake of this great initiative from the State Govt is the...
12/12/21 The housing rental catastrophe will continue as long as the Gutwein Government continues to allow the overbearing level of red and green tape at both State and Local Govt level that continues to prevent any effective emergency housing to be actioned. It was...
8/12/2021 Louise Elliot (Mercury 8 Dec) is correct in blaming Local Govt red tape for the critical shortage of supply in housing we are suffering in Tasmania. This load of red tape has been steadily and stealthily increasing over many years as demonstrated by the...
