Healthy debate, relative unanimity (except for the Greens on regular occasions) and a completed business paper all before 10pm.

It was a vast improvement on the previous meeting where Mayor Findley failed in her attempt to gag councillors and even to remove a longstanding councillor from the chamber.

Yet once again, this meeting was not plain sailing for the embattled mayor. Having launched a political attack on some councillors in the South Coast Register regarding her views on conduct, her patronising Mayoral Minute on meeting arrangements was rejected by the majority. Once again the mayor used her position to unsuccessfully curtail debate.

Then we saw mayor Findley give licence to Greens councillors to pursue hostile debate with a community member who gave a presentation. Then we saw an interruption to a Councillor's argument because she found it disagreeable.

None of this is helped by the rostered presence of Greens members and supporters in the Public Gallery who constantly interject, scoff and even hiss at those whom they dislike - usually without interruption from the mayor.

In calmly addressing all these issues, it was made very clear that the mayor should model good leadership in meetings and that favourable application of the rules to some over others as well as the continued disregard for the Code of Meeting Practice is not acceptable to the majority of councillors. Tone is set at the top.

I am amazed that some people assume because most Australians took the money not the box at the election, that somehow this means the climate crisis is not real.

With a blanket of carbon in the sky now 40 per cent thicker than it's been since way before humans were around, we are starting to slowly fry.

The evidence is absolutely clear (the best scientists from every nation on Earth agree completely on this) yet these older and 'wiser' correspondents expect our children (who will be far more impacted than we) to placidly ignore it.

Perhaps some of the adults in this world would do well to go back to school themselves and stop believing just what they choose from the wide variety of facts and fiction in the media.

New research just released by Macquarie and Wollongong university economists, after two years of penalty rate cuts no extra jobs have been created. Not one.

Their research revealed that penalty rate cuts mounted by employer groups and cheered on by Liberal/National parties have been nothing more than a viscous attack on low paid workers and the attacks keep coming from the ruthless restaurant and caterers group.

They are fighting for all penalty rates to cease immediately and pay their workers a flat rate across seven days a week.

You really wonder with nervousness what industry will be next.

I have travelled the Picton Road every day for the past 10 years and there is nothing wrong with the road.

If drivers drove to the conditions at all times the accident rate would drop dramatically.

Drivers speeding or driving drug affected have nothing whatsoever to do with the road as such.

Lay the blame where it belongs, with drivers.