Thanks to the local community for your support of the Jervis Bay Lions Club Jumping Castle. At the recent Huskisson Public School Fair we were able to raise just over $600 which was donated to the Huskisson School to help towards the costs of constructing an outdoor kitchen at the school. The community's ongoing support of our fund-raising efforts is very much appreciated.

Cr Guile, who now lives at Durran Durra (about 15 km north of Braidwood) accuses Mayor Findley of being out of order (SCR Nov. 8).

With regard to his comments, he is certainly living up to his name (one of the definitions of guile is 'deceitfulness'). There is only one other councillor who displays as much vindictive, overbearing, bullying and downright rudeness as our non-resident Cr Guile - out of order behaviour mostly aimed at the Mayor, but often at the three other Greens councillors who he seems to see as the enemy.

He seems to think that members of the public attending meetings, who demonstrate some distress at his behaviour, are Greens and Labor supporters. I attend most meetings and, let me assure him, that is not correct. You don't have to be a supporter of any party to be disgusted at very poor behaviour.

And as for meetings being sedate affairs, the most peaceful and cooperative council meeting I can recall attending occurred just last week (Tues Nov. 12) in the absence of Crs Guile, Pakes and Watson.

The politicians are a mob of drongos. We have an abundance of water at our doorstep-the pacific ocean.

At a cost of perhaps $25-30 billion, in NSW, we could have 18 to 20 Kurnell styled desalination plants built on the headlands of coastal river catchment areas.

Next pipe treated drinking water into local water supplies. Once the dams are full; pump desalinated water to the lower estuaries of the catchment.

The next move would be to build weirs across the rivers and irrigate.

The last and most important move would be to pipe desalinated water over the "great divide" into the dams supplying water to western rural areas. Problems solved.

World Children's Day is this Wednesday (20/11), celebrating the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. This commits Australia to protect the right of all children to health and safety.

But our PM Scott Morrison, who is responsible for the futures of six million Australian children, is failing in his duty to protect them.

The number one threat to my children and to all the world's children is the climate crisis. Young people are already suffering in our community, whether it be from water shortages, fire, loss of family income, air pollution or heatwaves (which affect children much more than adults).

The UN says all counties including Australia, the 15th largest emitter in the world, must urgently act on the science and halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2030.

All sides of politics need to unite to achieve this if we have any hope of protecting our children's futures.

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