Council approved the development of a shotgun club in 1999. In 2006, the first regularised surveys for koalas were implemented, after a koala was sighted in Mumbulla State Forest. Subsequently, in 2016, forests adjacent to the gun club, Murrah and Mumbulla, were transferred to Flora Reserves, to protect koalas from logging. These two forests, along with Kooraban National Park, sustain the majority of the last known endemic and genetically distinct koalas on the NSW south coast.

Council made a mistake when it accepted the original council staff recommendation and first approved this inappropriate development. Twenty years on, the council staff report, endorsing the latest proposed modification, is based on the same flawed and out of date advice.

There are koalas records in forests adjacent to the shotgun club, before it was approved. However, extensive surveys in the Murrah catchment have not found resident koalas within 5km of the gun club.

The most recent information suggests there is no interaction between koalas in Murrah and Mumbulla forest and this is another sign that koalas face a dim future. BVSC has an important role to play helping koalas. Working with the state government to find a more appropriate location for the gun club, is a critical action to help koalas.

Fiona Kotvojs really has summed up the situation very well in her response to the Anglicare report on affordable housing in Australia: negative gearing allows one person to own 10 homes while 10 people cannot afford to own even one home.

But if you were to try to reform that system to make things more equitable, that one home owner will increase the rent on their 10 homes and make housing for people on low incomes even harder to find!

I thought according to Liberal ideology, when you give wealthy people more money it somehow trickles down through the economy and makes everyone's lives better?

The Greens seem the only party with policies genuinely designed to address the housing crisis.

Anzac Day, April, 25, is a day when we rightly celebrate the sacrifices of all our service men and women from all theatres of war - those who fell defending our country, our way of life and the very civilisation we enjoy today.

As we have done for the last five years, we attended the ceremony at Central Tilba. It is by city standards a small affair, but bigger than most in atmosphere and reverence. But not so today.

Today, when we should have been standing in quiet contemplation and remembrance, we were being regaled on the treatment of Aboriginal soldiers in WWI.

I, like any compassionate and intelligent Australian, knows that there are wrongs that should be righted, but it is not this day.

There are days for condemning our past treatment of indigenous Australians, but it is not this day. There are days for spotlighting past injustices of any kind, but not this day.

Anzac Day knows no religion, no colour, no race nor political viewpoint. Making it so only demeans the sacrifices of the dead.

Today I should have been remembering my grandfather, my uncles and all those other young men who spilt their blood for us. I should have been proud, not angry.

Today was taken from me and used to make a statement.

The dead care not for agendas, and on this day of all days neither should we.