David Pope's Cobargo 'cartoon' is fabulous, but I only wish he had used a more enticing byline than 'in the Bega Valley' or had added an appealing adjective after 'Come to...'. Cobargo is such a vibrant, fascinating, welcoming, historic little town. It deserves a better description than simply being 'in the Bega Valley'.

And, on a much lighter note but in the same vein, I encourage your readers to visit the 'subpar parks' page at ambersharedesign.com to see how incredibly inspirational some of the one-star reviews of America's most famous National Parks have been.

Perhaps the recent local bushfires and some of the appallingly ineffective responses from various authorities might inspire similar artistic creativity from our local community.

Here we go again. This is the just sort of provocative idea that populist politicians propose when they want to polarise the community conversation and deflect peoples' attention away from serious issues that they are failing on.

Like failures in climate and energy policy, failing public health measures to address a looming pandemic, failing economic performance, oh, and of course: to distract us from focussing on the latest news of claims of corruption in giving government grants to a mate whose wife is a Nationals MP front bencher and to bolster their NLP MPs in swinging electorates, with no due process.

How many thousand years is the half life of dangerous radioactive waste? And if it is so safe, then let's store it under parliament house (no need to put it out in the desert or send it overseas).

No to nuclear power.

Great idea for our area. I believe it is perfectly safe.

Mr Barilaro clearly believes his party's political future lies in regaining popular support from the National Party voters who now ironically have defected to a former Labor party leader and latterday redneck Mark Latham representing One Nation.

Sadly his position on the matter of nuclear power (as with so many other issues) ignores the scientific and economic data and instead is built on one big lie that nuclear is cheaper than renewables.

In fact recent estimates of the levelised cost of new electricity production by CSIRO and the AEMO put renewable energy with storage at between $89 and $158 per MWh depending the generation and storage method. By comparison nuclear is estimated to cost between$250 and $327 per MWh while new coal power costs from $123 to $166 per MWh.

So even at current costs renewables are already competitive with coal, but nuclear would cost more than twice as much.

It seems the price Mr Barilaro is willing to pay to score some cheap political points is around $150 perMWh at the cost of his coalition partners and his constituents. Perhaps he should instead form a coalition with One Nation and sit on the cross benches. At least then his ill-considered brain farts would get less airtime in the mainstream media.

Absolutely no to a nuclear power station on the South Ccoast! Solar, wind, wave and other alternatives need to be expanded and funded! What are you thinking? The South Coast has been battered and shattered by drought, fires,floods and now COVID-19. A nuclear power station will be strongly opposed!