It is of a high concern to me that there won't be a vaccination hub within the Bega Valley. Being the regional and sole hospital/medical area for our LGA this is the best option for our community.

My mother is an aged care nurse and will be up first for the vaccine in my household. She doesn't have time between work to travel three hours away for a vaccine. Especially if her, my stepdad and myself all have to receive this at different times, it won't be doable for months.

A lot of people within our LGA are also unable to travel - be it retirees, poverty or lack of time. I plead you to review your decision to not place a hub in our community.

Thank you Kristy for once again advocating for the vulnerable people in your electorate. Access to health care in Australia should be equitable and accessible to all.

This community has been impacted by an unprecedented disaster on top of COVID. It is essential that this is acknowledged and proactive steps are made to protect our communities from COVID to enable community connection events which are demonstrated to be effective in the recovery from bushfires. The South Coast has taken a bigger economic hit than urban locations and should be prioritised. There is increased risks and costs associated with the provision of mental health care to the South Coast.

Kristy McBain again makes noises about an issue but offers no solution. With Canberra like the hole in the doughnut of Eden-Monaro it is an obvious place from where to administer the vaccines to essential workers from our area.

However, since the boundaries of electorates have no relevance to this matter anyway it would make sense for the people from Tumut to go to Wagga Wagga or Albury. The nature of the low temperature handling of the Pfizer vaccine makes widespread distribution centres impractical.

Perhaps a more constructive approach and an understanding of geography would make our Labor Member more relevant.

Concern about the effect, or threat of effect, on watercourses into Bermagui River. Threat hanging over the area of potential land, wildlife and fisheries disturbance.

The reason I am writing this story is I have always valued the written word far more than any other form of media because books have soul. There are many stepping stones in life and some are good some are bad. You need to celebrate and enjoy the good ones and dust yourself off from the bad ones and move on quickly because another good one awaits you and the one thing we can't save is time, so don't waste it.

As I get to the stage in life where I don't remember much I will have the written word to prove I was here, what I did and the people I touched. In everything I have done and written I unashamedly aim for people's hearts and not their heads.

The heart is a far greater barometer of who we are than the brain which overtime develops more logic than common sense.

Little children often have an imaginary friend. My brain and logic say that is impossible but my heart says something else. I think as we get older we lose a lot of the power and magic to think through our hearts. I have always lived by the three things my old Nan taught me.

Always help those who through history or circumstance are unable to help themselves, regardless of the personal cost.

Always speak up for those who through history or circumstance are voiceless, regardless of personal cost.

Most importantly do whatever it takes to achieve these two aims.

For what is left of my life I want to try to make the world a better place for those with whose care we are entrusted, the children and the older generation who are often undervalued and forgotten.

In the NSW Bushfire and Wildlife Recovery Plan it is claimed that native wildlife will be protected by comprehensive poisoning and trapping of feral animals including wild dogs. Included in "wild dogs" are dingoes.

They are behaviourally and physically different from the feral wild dogs introduced to Australia during white settlement. It is difficult to tell them apart and to determine how many of each were alive in the area of South Eastern NSW before the bushfires, let alone afterwards when dingoes and other terrified animals have been forced to leave their so-called "core areas" in order not to be incinerated.

Why therefore has this barbaric program been allowed to go ahead when according to scientists and ecologists it can only inflict further suffering on bushfire areas and make it more difficult or impossible to save more wildlife from being wiped out.

The Australian native dingo is a classified by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature ( IUCN) as vulnerable to extinction. As well as having a vital ecological role in the natural environment, the dingo has special cultural significance to many indigenous people and should be treated with respect and not killed.