Most of the state has never seen such a deep drought. Uncontrolled fires rage across NSW and have incinerated over 800 homes and a major proportion of our forests, national parks, fauna and flora.

Our local bush is tinder dry.

Well over half the shire's water is in Brogo dam which is 3/4 empty... at 26% level and dropping at about 1% per day. Our local environment, economy and towns are water dependent. The season's tourists will see water usage soar.

No one can predict when this drought will end. If it doesn't rain, we're stuffed.

Locally, council policies endeavour to avoid catastrophe. We even have a draft Climate Resilience Strategy. And yet....

And yet, Bega Valley has not implemented any water restrictions nor precautionary irrigation management to better eek out our precious water in the event of the drought continuing.

An emergency meeting of council needs to be held to reconsider the immediate implementation of precautionary water conservation measures across the shire.

Dear Christopher, how dare you vilify our grandest and most generous PM, just because he cannot list the "many" causes of climate change and declares it "a state issue". All the disasters experienced in the past few months would undoubtedly not be occurring if the federal government were in charge. His poor hands are tied (as well as slightly blackened following his presentation of a lump of coal in Parliament some years ago).

In the meantime all the professional and volunteer firefighters can work till they drop from exhaustion or tragedy, their equipment and vehicles fail and water runs out. Fish kill is expected to be worse than last year's etc.

However to the eternal gratitude of the Australian public, ScoMo has agreed to cut short his secret Hawaii holiday in order to speak to the Australian people during these hard and smoky times. Like it or not Christopher, that's called "direct smokescreen remedial action".

He even acknowledged that his absence, leaving deputy PM Michael McCormack in charge, had caused "great anxiety". What an accolade for his hapless Coalition partner!

Best wishes to all the firefighters!

People need to be aware in these extreme conditions, in a total fire ban, that you need to think twice about anything that could cause a fire to ignite, ie, using angle grinders in inappropriate places (outside) as seen in Tantawanglo this afternoon. It just goes to show how quickly things can go wrong and livelihoods destroyed because people don't think.

There has been a lot of discussion lately about Prime Ministerial leadership in times of natural disasters.

I have just returned from a cruise on the Ovation of the Seas, during which the Mt White eruption occurred and so many were killed or horrifically injured by lava, superheated steam and toxic gases.

Prime Minister Jacinta Ardern took immediate control, appearing constantly with her Police Commissioner, head of disaster recovery, forensics chief and others.

The flow of information was constant, empathetic and professional. The well-being and care of the injured and their families as well as the families of the deceased being uppermost at all times.

She took great care to ensure that no names were released before all necessary forensic work for identification was completed in order to avoid unnecessary distress.

This is a prime minister who understands their role. At times like this, there is a real need to take the initiative in order to enter a climate of empathy, compassion and professionalism.

Stay safe everybody, the country and the world's thoughts are with you.

We have had no rain in Canberra basically for two months. It is so dry and hard to keep gardens alive.

I can see how all the firefighters in Australia are exhausted after battling endless fires in many states.

We need to give them all the help we can including financial, proper equipment (i.e. masks), and counselling as they are all doing an amazing job to protect all of us from fires.

If only the climate change activists took an interest in our solar system and not just our little planet they would see that the Sun is the major influence on our climate and for some reason it's influence is discounted.

We admit that ocean temperatures on both sides of our country are indications of the likelihood of rainfall or drought (El Nino or La Nina) but not why those temperatures change.

The Sun is currently inactive and therefore not warming our oceans. In fact we are in a cooling phase and temperatures will be cooler throughout much of the world.

I dare any of you doomsayers to actually go to YouTube and become educated.

Look for the grand solar minimum and discover the patterns of our solar system in which man has no control.

The northern hemisphere is cooling and having records broken.