So how will these continue to be in our community when you go ahead with the nonsense of your climate hoax? What will we do when we want to go for a swim in what we are used to all our lives at our local swimming pools?

In relation to council wanting ratepayers to foot the bill for repairs and maintenance of Bega Valley Shire pools there is a remarkable lack of transparency and bad planning.

Council hasn't explained in plain English to us ratepayers why they need to do this. We already have increasing levels of rates without this imposition.

Why hasn't this, over the last how many years, been factored into council's budget? Whoever does all of council's budgets shows a remarkable lack of foresight regarding something as important as this.

A question also yet to be made transparent is once these repairs are complete will our rates go down accordingly? I don't think so. It will then be part of general revenue and used for other things.

Can you ever remember any of the usual bills for rates, electricity, gas, water and so on ever going down, because I can't.

Since council brought in the FOGO system they have boasted how much money they are saving us. Why don't they divert all these savings to repair and maintain our pools?

An editorial comment on climate change seems appropriate with this year's drought conditions.

Australia is a country of drought and flooding rains no matter where you live. This year from Cape York to Tasmania fires are burning.

I am always planting trees and plants as these provide the clean air we breathe here on the South Coast. What I feel so sad about is the developers who clear every bit of ground cover (for example what's happening half way up Lot Stafford Drive Kalaru at the moment), when preparing land to sell.

The roadsides in this area, in a good year, are covered with native orchids and other wildflowers and it seems the grading of these areas are overkill, an unnecessary evil. There are still people in Australia who want to live among the wild flowers.

Does the Bega Valley Shire Council sanction this action or are the developers at fault? Was the EPA contacted before clearing began?

If you are worried about fires do not buy in a fire prone area. Plants provide the air we breathe and are known to encourage rainfall. Over-clearing affects us all.

During Dementia Action Week, September 16-22, Dementia Australia is challenging all Australians to think differently by asking 'Dementia doesn't discriminate. Do you?' We are calling on our communities to consider how discrimination impacts people of all ages, living with all forms of dementia and their families and carers.

In the electorates of Eden-Monaro, Hume and Parkes there are an estimated 9312 people living with dementia this year, which is expected to increase to 19,005 by 2058.

Nobody chooses to have dementia. We can however choose how we respond to the people in our lives and in our community who are living with dementia.

We are asking readers to complete a short survey to help us to create an informed, national picture to better understand how discrimination for people living with dementia occurs, and what it would take to shift that discrimination. More at www.dementia.org.au/dementia-action-week.