Contrary to her assertion, I have in fact read the entirety of the Commission of Inquiry report.

The report does not – at any stage – recommend the shutdown of the greyhound racing industry in New South Wales.

It has recommended the imposition of 70 conditions which provides a reasonable foundation upon which to pursue continued reform of the industry’s governance culture and animal welfare practices.

I support the imposition of these conditions within an agreed timeframe.  

The Commission report acknowledges that the greyhound racing industry has already undertaken significant governance and animal welfare reforms.

Ms Moran conveniently disregards the views of the Australian Veterinary Association (AVA), which has asked the Government to rethink its shut down plans because tens of thousands of greyhounds will be destroyed.

It seems counterintuitive for an animal welfare advocate such as Ms Moran to support the shutdown of an industry while at the same time accepting the wholesale slaughter of greyhounds as a result of it.

Incidentally, are we aware that over the last five years we have destroyed 239,451 dogs, cats, and other animals across the country?  This might be a statistic we should all be thinking about too.  

Anna Watson MP, Member for Shellharbour

What's this about climate change?

Just because my crab apple tree thinks it's spring and is flowering. Really. 

To think that we can can put billions of years of sequestered carbon back into our atmosphere in a couple of centuries without it having some effect on our climate is unbelievable.

Our new government has put the environment and energy portfolios in the same cabinet ministry.

Well, we better start putting coal-based products in our diet or we may all start to starve to death because of the collapse of our agriculturally based products.

Where is the Malcolm Turnbull that we once admired for his progressive views?

I'm glad I'm old, because the future is dim.

William Bielefeldt, Kembla Grange

Paul Malone questions the power of Standard and Poor's to rate a country's credit and how they got it wrong in the past (Illawarra Mercury, July 18, 2016).

They gave AAA ratings to banks that caused the world recession in 2008 that impoverished many thousands.

Standard and Poor's rate governments like a company on the stock market where profit and the share index is paramount.

A government’s concern is (or should be) the well being of a nation and it's people.

The market philosophy now dominates governments.

Society has become an economy.

Budgets are framed to secure an AAA rating on the stock market not to secure the essentials of the people and society.

This was apparent in the 2014 “horror Abbott budget” where the market trumped the needs of people.

It is an unconscionable policy that enriches the rich and neglects society's needs.

Expect more from a Turnbull government determined to maintain an AAA rating.

Reg Wilding, Wollongong

Party politics have no place in Local Government. 

Period!

Ray Thorburn, Kiama