After first spending an inordinate time registering with Service NSW (not the easiest!), and having then been informed by its website I was likely to receive around $73 and $84 for each of two green slips that was due to me, I tried to claim (which, curiously, can only be done at night!) 

Yes, I would receive refunds – but just $20.14 and $27.45 for each of these vehicles.

I tried to contact Service NSW to ask them to explain the discrepancy.  Sorry, we only take phone calls during the day, and not at night! Sack whoever set up this nonsensical system, I suggest.  And immediately sack the ministers who approved this nonsensical system, I suggest.

If I am due a total of around $157, send it to me and make it easy for me to claim. If I am only due $45.59, then why have you suggested I am owed more?

Any private company or organisation peddling as much false information as has Service NSW would be subject to significant penalties. Service NSW and its minister should be hit with the same penalties.

We often hear about drugs being interspersed on our shores and drug houses being raided by the police. The perpetrators are usually locked up without bail before facing the courts and if found guilty spend quite a while behind bars.

We are lucky in Australia – instead of serving time some other countries impose the death penalty.

What we don’t hear however is the amount of drugs that are not detected

One of the most talked about topic at moment is the tampering of a cricket ball. Ball tampering has been going on for years. In this case the players were caught red handed and a penalty imposed.

The latest scandal is about (quote from the Daily Telegraph) “Labor MPs are using a little known allowance for newspaper and magazines to funnel thousands of taxpayer dollars to a union backed think tank run by Bill Shorten’s former adviser”.

Like the unknown drugs finishing up on our streets and the unknown cricket ball tampering, is there any other unknown scandal looming in the Labor Party. It’s a pity Mike Kelly is involved.

One would think the scandal should be investigated by the police and the necessary action taken. Of course the former will not happen, the five members will simply say they have no knowledge of the affair and just put it down to an administration error. The untouchable element kicks in.

There may not be a lot of what Turnbull says that I would agree with, but what he said in Bega about the recent Tathra fire seemed to me to be more accurate than some locals who tried to link the fires to climate change.  Of course millions of tons of sequestered carbon being released into the atmosphere should cause problems, just as thousands of tons of jet fuel being burnt daily in our delicate upper atmosphere should. When we look at the history of European settlement in Australia and the demise of patch burning by the first Australians, it seems to me that wildfires have become a ‘natural’ and regular part of Australia.  

It might be fashionable to claim climate change is the cause of all our disasters now, but where is the proof of the recent fire being related to climate change when we have such a long history of disastrous wildfires?

Maybe a look at our fire history would help some to understand what really happens instead of making what I would consider is a spurious claim. 

Rather than trying to politicise a disaster we all should be very thankful there was such a well organised response and for the amazing work provided by the air support.