Firstly my Facebook post did not “fail” in any sense of the word and, secondly, the overwhelming majority of the comments on the post you refer to and even many of those published on your website are not from people residing in Gilmore.

This statistic is both backed up from information from Facebook, as well as when matching names on the post with names on the publically available electoral roll for Gilmore.

Your reference to the “offer” I supposedly made to ask Shoalhaven City Council is completely in error. In fact all I have done is suggest to the ABC that a possible local option for consideration is that they tender for the recording space currently available at the Shoalhaven City Arts Centre.

Finally your reference to my living arrangements is an inappropriate and irrelevant fact in this matter and it’s not the first time the Register has inappropriately used my living arrangements in a story and if you checked the validity of your original commentaries, as pointed out above, you would have known that.

A. Sudmalis,

Member for Gilmore.