Funny about that, I receive numerous emails on a daily basis. 

Is our member now the Member in Hiding? 

Chris Dwyer

Wallagoot

The recent "captain's pick" of knighting a duke certainly has some essence of Monty Python about it. 

But is it really that bad relative to Manus Island, co-payments, starving job seekers and climate change denial? 

The "captain" is after all the front man for a scientifically illiterate Coalition that believes climate change will have minimal impact on infrastructure, agriculture, the economy or society. 

This is a Coalition that believes burning more coal will be good for women, families, the country and the planet. 

Consequently, they will meet international obligations by using taxpayer money to pay polluters for token efforts against carbon pollution. 

Anyone with these beliefs needs their eligibility for a driver's licence challenged. 

A seat in our parliament should be out of the question. 

Defenestrating the "captain" will still leave the same miserable crew with their ignorance, dogma, arrogance and lack of empathy. 

Australia needs political vision and a plan to do more than dig holes for foreign corporations. 

The looming world climate crisis will not be fixed by removing penalty rates, attacking refugees or playing our own version of Game of Thrones while the temperatures rise. 

The Coalition is unable to do anything that is not in the standard right wing play book so should just call an election and let more talented politicians have a go.

Greg Thompson

Bega

For years I have been trying to make sense of Neville Hughes' letters in the paper, but still they continue to be as clear as mud!

This is particularly so in his letter “Challenging times” (Bay Post, 30/1).

Just what is it that Mr Hughes is trying to convince us of (and has been for years)? 

Excuse my ignorance, but even when I read back over sentences multiple times, the meanings elude me.

Am I wrong in surmising that NH denies that climate change IS happening, and claiming that it’s all a huge conspiracy put upon us by a multitude of the world's scientists, in conjunction with the Green/ALP parties? 

If so, surely he can’t be serious!

If only it were true that climate change is not happening, but so far, all the computerised prediction models seem to be proving correct. 

However, regardless of any scientific data, the climate is changing. 

Many signs in nature tell us so. 

Having lived nearly three score years and 10, I have never before seen the leaves on plants (such as camellias) actually brown and burnt. 

Gardens of plants established 30 and 40 years ago could not have been created now or within the last 10 years, due to extreme heat periods and repeated, extended droughts. 

Now, different species need to be planted that are heat and drought tolerant.

Every second of every day on this earth, the burning of billions of barrels of fossil fuels are being released into the atmosphere.

How could this not affect the climate? 

Can’t Neville Hughes imagine such impact on the earth...or is he that ignorant?

Instead of wasting years of his time on (as I see it) blaming Greens and the ALP for a climate change conspiracy, why doesn’t NH instead use his talents in an attempt to save the vanishing hardwood forests of the south east coast (and Australia wide) being logged into oblivion, daily. 

Forests which, in conjunction with over-population, land clearing, burning by man and bushfires impacted by climate change-created droughts, will never grow again to providing habitat and life for Australia’s beautiful and unique, increasingly endangered wildlife. 

Wake up, Neville!

Trouble is...when it’s all gone, the young, and future generations won’t care; because they never knew it. 

And that’s a tragedy!

Diana Gillies

Moruya NSW