Then just imagine war breaks out, your town is invaded, your buildings are bombed, your female relatives are raped, your neighbours and family live in fear every day of being murdered or tortured and you have no access to food, water or shelter for your family.

This has been the reality for millions of people in the Middle East, Africa and parts of Asia for many years now.

If this was you would you not do anything you could to save yourself and your family?

If the only option you had was to spend your life's savings on putting yourself and them on a leaky boat and risk your lives to get to safety, would you not do it?

Do you really think you would think to yourself the country we might end up in belongs to someone else so we aren't entitled to land there so we'd better stay here? I very much doubt it.

There is no easy solution to the current refugee crisis but the way our country is currently treating the refugees on Manus Island and also those on Nauru is certainly not it.

These people are human beings who have had their worlds torn apart and the only crime they have committed is trying to save themselves and their families.

We can do better, Australia.

Council endeavouring to retain a rate increase  for the next three years, could look at tendering for private contractors to do work, rather than the use of council employees, as recently staff noticed that it took two trucks and seven men to fill two small potholes on Woollamia road, in front of our entrance.

The cost of removal of the old bridge should be allocated by the state government to Shoalhaven City Council for its continued maintenance in place, as a pedestrian only community facility- no traffic.

Let's hope a rogue truck driver does not knock it down in the meantime with a mistakenly raised tray or excavator bucket as has happened at other bridges, overpasses and tunnels in the past.

With the reported reluctance of the major parties in federal parliament to support an audit of parliamentarians and their citizenship status, I ask the Prime Minister this question without notice:

Why, as a private citizen when applying for a passport, am I required to provide original or certified copies of documents that establish my identity and citizenship?

If I was considering running for a seat in parliament all I would have to do is fill out forms declaring my citizenship status without providing any proof.

Section 44 of the constitution states you cannot hold dual citizenship while being a member of parliament.

As a matter of urgency the Governor General must step in and demand of the Prime Minister that an audit take place to ensure the probity of our parliamentary process.

I am astounded that a member of parliament has such little understanding of the fundamental role of the Australian constitution. I think Ann Sudmalis needs to redo her induction course into the Federal Parliament – how can she sit in the Parliament with such a fundamental lack of understanding our constitutional law? Is she pandering to the ignorant to drum up support for turning a blind eye to those who were never legally entitled to stand for election?