Wollongong City Council must act on the indisputable science of dangerous climate change.

Councils can act locally even if state and federal governments have their head in the sand.

It's not just green lefties calling for action.

The 2018 Lowy Institute Poll shows that the vast majority of Australians want government action on the serious and pressing problem of global warming.

Several independents have been elected on platforms of action on climate change.

The days of councils only focusing on roads rates and rubbish are gone.

The Wollongong Community Strategic plan shows that council addresses our social, environmental, and economic well-being.

These are all impacted by a warming climate.

As our Lord Mayor says, council is doing its bit to prevent and adapt to the emergency of dangerous climate change.

We can do much more.

Stephen Young, Thirroul

We watch with incredulity at the goings on, the misinformation and misleading and deceptive comments by politicians, including the Prime Minister over the relationship of Aboriginal people to Australia.

We had, beginning in 1770 and 1788, described by some as'the invasion of Australia by the white fellow' or more politely, the Colonisation of Australia.

Now let's turn it around and think about the circumstances where the Aboriginals were in charge and they had governed Australia and had developed a maturity's and skills at the same pace as the rest of the world.

Just think of the wealth they would have, the skills that would have developed and evolved.

Australia would be a very different place with different value systems and likely have a more constructive view of water use and renewable energy.

It is time our politicians woke up to their arrogant stupidity and gave the Aboriginal people proper and respectful recognition .

Peter Corkish, Wollongong

Never having met Tim Fischer, he seemed to me a politician from another era, one where politics wasn't seen as a career but rather an opportunity to serve your country and particularly for Tim to represent people who lived in the regions and the bush.

Having listened to him over many years, he was one of the few politicians that transcended political ideology simply because he loved serving his local community.

And also because he was a genuinely good bloke.

How appropriate that he was treated at the Albury-Wodonga Regional Cancer Centre, a facility he helped establish for regional people.

My thoughts are with his family.

Farewell Tim.

Bruno Conte, Berkeley

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