I was shocked and in disbelief the Prime Minister of our country believes this.

White Australia was built on dispossession, slavery and abuse of Aboriginal people, that is not including convict labour, brought to Australian shores to rid England of problematic people and overpopulation.

What we did is no different, except Indigenous people were already here, had been for thousands of years and did not cede their sovereignty.

Look at our real history, it is littered with records of Aboriginal slavery, rape, murder and servitude for white masters. White Australia has worked to eradicate, subjugate, protect, assimilate and limit the thriving of Indigenous culture. There are many records and resources available to learn our truth.

We cannot change the past but we damn well can learn from it and change now and our future.

If we do not embrace Indigenous heritage then ignorance will prevail. Indigenous people continue to fight for survival, with dignity, courage and endurance in the face of so many heinous acts upon them.

It is beyond time people with power in Australia found a way to correct our course and make us a country where we all belong.

I believe we do share the same history of slavery as America, but that does not mean we have to follow their destructive path, politicians have the power to make our story continue in a better way.

If Scott Morrison committed to looking at the recommendations from the 1991 Royal Commission into Black Deaths in Custody and working towards implementing them, then the mass gatherings re this issue could be avoided. Instead of showing leadership and compassion he tells the police to charge the protesters.

I think people are making a mountain out of a molehill over the floodboat shelter. The boat is more important. Why weren't people worrying about that?

The Homelessness Taskforce Shoalhaven commenced meeting on August 29, 2017 with many community organisations represented and together they provided advice and recommendations on how to improve homelessness by adopting the Affordable Housing Strategy to Shoalhaven and mapping forward and advocating for tenants.

It is great news to finally see one of the Ongoing Actions (HT19.2) of this Taskforce being achieved with Council unanimously voting to gift the land and buildings to Southern Cross Housing.

Hope this means that this project will be done sooner rather than years in the making and that the most needed tenants get access to affordable housing on this site.

We've always thought the Berry highway monument an ugly and assertive blot on the landscape. Trespassing on other people's property is set in law, whether Indigenous or non-Indigenous, so recognising Berry's trespassing and subsequent desecration of graves should not be condoned in this way.

The settlement so named should be renamed with the original custodian's word or words describing country, surely the most evocative and memorable of monuments.

There are quite a few bandicoots in Shoalhaven Heads ('Bandicoots and quolls making Booderee home'). I have some burrowing under my back shed.