Amandine said it is a tribute to the Indigenous Australian community for National Reconciliation Week.

"Throughout media we see the losses felt, yours needs to be voiced too, it needs to be heard."

A recent poll found that 59 per cent of Eden-Monaro voters think the federal government is not doing enough to address climate change; 59 per cent want publicly funded renewable energy projects; 65 per cent of us voted yes in the SSM plebiscite.

The current Liberal party candidate for the by-election, Fiona Kotvojs, has publicly denied the existence of man-made/accelerated climate change for years and agrees with the fossil fuel policies of the LNP.

Furthermore she advocated strongly against marriage equality and still advocates for religious institutions to have the right to discriminate against LGBTQI teachers and students.

How can she possibly represent the majority of our electorate if elected?

Lack of fuel reduction action in 2013 was the main cause of recent fires.

The climate has always changed; droughts are part of the cycle and after the Millennium drought ended with heavy rain in January and May 2010 forests sprung back to life. However, by 2013 it was obvious that without preemptive hazard reduction action the situation would rapidly deteriorate when conditions turned dry again as they always had in the past.

Bushfires in 2015 and the Tathra fire in March 2018 were wake-up calls but but no-one in the top echelons of the RFS were awake. While fuel accumulated along the eastern seaboard, bureaucratic roadblocks made the prospect of getting action on fuel reduction impossible. And with the landscape drying after 2014 it was never a question of if, just a question of when calamity would strike.

Models don't predict natural events and since the 1990s we have been misinformed about the nature, causes and likely direction of past and future climate changes. Politicians have pushed us down the wrong path. Climate risks have not changed; there is no evidence that anthropogenic factors are to blame and the idea that government policy could control the weather; prevent droughts and floods and bushfires, is naive and absurd.

The recent "black summer" bushfires resulted from bureaucratic failures stemming from a lack of understanding of the emerging problem and the failure to undertake preemptive hazard reduction action.

I'm a local nurse at SERH and a union delegate for our local branch that is quite upset, as the rest of our members are, about the public servant wage freeze. They say they appreciate us yet they devalue us. They say they applaud us and yet they only flip the bird at us. I know that in some ways we are lucky because we have job security, but presently in current times it is one of the more dangerous jobs. As a local, through the bush fires we had to go to work each day not knowing what we would be coming home to. Presently with COVID-19 we still have to go to work each day not knowing what we could potentially be taking home.

We have fought for years and still fight for better conditions and nurse to patient ratios, now they say they are going to simplify our award system, that is a worry.

It wouldn't be so hurtful if it also applied to our ministers, but apparently not. They continue to take wage rises and all the benefits that go with that type of public servant. So yes I'm not happy! I'm not greedy. I'm just tired and once again disheartened