EXAMINER LETTER TO THE EDITOR
UTAS Inveresk
A LARGE office block is for sale at Mowbray. How about the City of Launceston council buys it and moves their key personnel into it and see if they still support UTAS's incredibly ridiculous move to Inveresk?
They will realise that Launceston is bigger and more diverse than the failing CBD.
They will see they are surrounded by medical doctors, Coles and Woolworth supermarkets, a Target department store, beauty salons and hairdressers, physiotherapists, bakeries, car repairers, two chemists, two variety stores, numerous charity outlets, two hotels, numerous food suppliers and multi menu eateries. These are surrounded by generous car parks as student accommodation within the private rental market and within the university. In fact, more diversity than the CBD. Surely that is better for UTAS and Launceston?
G. Long, Launceston
COMMENT
The good Rev Prof Black offered a lecture/sermon at the Royal Society last Sunday to do with 'place and ethics'. It was rather interesting in so much he painted a picture that challenged the credibility on exhibit on the ground.
The credibility gap between what this man says, had to say, will say, and what is playing out with UTas and the city of Launceston is yawning, not to put too fine a point on it.
Down at Town Hall where the incumbents should be in the business of 'placemaking' there, it seems, was only one sycophant in the room to hear the good Rev Prof's hollow sermon. What's in what for who is a deep mystery but that's how it is with belief systems.
UTas just does not get it and the institution is truly blighted by its self serving and misguided self beliefs. Ratepayers and civic minded residents need to remain on the case. We also need to be encouraged by the kickbacks in evidence in Hong Kong, Chile, Bagdad and elsewhere. Not to mention the apparently emerging civic concern at the Examiner
MAINTAIN THE RAGE AND SEEK ACCOUNTABILITY
