And as far as God goes, we might ask Her about all those members of religious orders who had their way with young boys.

They couldn't  be latent gays could they? Heaven forbid.

Not only that, the number of people actually attending church is falling dramatically. Maybe they're like me and have developed their own vision of what God should be like.

Don't worry, Adrian, I won't try to convert you.

Your views on gays  and climate change  are only held by a minority who are ignorant homophobes and refuse the evidence of collapsing ice sheets, more violent storms, rising temperatures and acidity of our oceans, not to mention rising sea levels.

I read recently that the dinosaurs became prominent when  things got too hot for large mammals, and only  the very smallest were able to survive.

Hopefully, just like the dinosaurs, people like you will soon become extinct.

William Bielefeldt, Kembla Grange

Instead of the government funding the counselling and rehab centres we could put the cost on the alcohol producers and the clubs as they are the suppliers and promoters.

It’s the same with the cigarette companies.

Ken Mc Dougall, Bulli

At last we have proof, all the way back from Queensland beaches to Globex shipping’s Regina, the ship that leaked tonnes of oil in the Great Barrier Reef shipping lanes. Globex will now face Townsville Magistrates Court in August.

It’s not good enough banning ships with bad safety and maintenance records, our reef has to be by-passed altogether.

It was never about the ultimate cost of fuel for us, in fact, we never ever went along with shipping lanes through our reef. Most of us abhor this “all about money” stand and if there’s one “she’ll be right” attitude.

We won’t have a bar of it. It is allowing our wonderful Barrier Reef to be taken from us by the fossil fuel crowd.

Brian Johnson, Gymea

Our state is not being run by politicians. It is run mainly by business men and women (recruited directors on retainers) appointed (usually by the Deputy Premier) to private corporations.

Apart from government corporations; another questionable undertaking is the leasing agreements with Hastings Funds Management – the most recent – the Land and Property Information service leased for $2.6 billion.

What is the problem with Hastings? Hastings is an investment company fully owned by the Westpac Bank.

Sale or leasing transactions carried out with Hastings, in reality are deals signed and sealed with Westpac, which by the way, if my memory serves me correct, is the bank of choice for the NSW government. Hastings Funds Management and the Sydney Desalination Plant scandals

First, conditions formalised in the lease between the government and Hastings and its partner, a Canadian superannuation fund sees, NSW taxpayers obliged to pay over $500 thousand dollars per day or $1.68 million every second day to the lessees.

Second, a nice little arrangement, every time the government needs to start up the plant and pump water from the site there is a “start up” fee of $5.5 million dollars.

Third, in December 2015 a disastrous cyclone reduced the SDP to a pile of junk.

To compensate (even though the plant carried insurance) the government gifted $388 million to the owners as reparation. Westpac Bank is blue-chip stock rated in the top four on the stock exchange.  

John Macleod, Berry