This community has failed its younger generation by destroying opportunities for the younger generation by creating an environment fully void of jobs due to their continued attitude of no development and progress in the Bay and Basin area.

The use of inflammatory language like the title of this article "Zombie development" by institutions such as the South Coast Register create a false view for the wider community and presents an overwhelmingly bias view of the situation.

This is not facts or freedom of information this is one person's anti development views that are slowing the progress of a town who is now failing its younger generations because of a lack of infrastructure and development to create the jobs required to support them.

Rugby in the Pacific 2022 could be bigger than the latest book I picked up at my local library today.

A book about a young girl's path from obscurity to turning the hopes of a six-year-old into a global star. A girl with enough grit and curiosity to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. She was worldly enough to knock-out the trolls, look past the glare of the bright lights of life and give many young girls a new direction in their life.

She was lucky, she had strong parents and a gift to look out for others and by chance, very astute management of her sporting career. Her spirit was built on the simple desire, to kick a footy through the goal posts, rather than watch her seven-year-old brother, do his training runs.

She was five-years-old and a fighter, at that time girls didn't play footy, not even AFW - the W was about to be born. Fifteen years later, Queenland had the highest number of girls playing AFL, outside of Melbourne, in the world.

Now she can tell her children, of the day she added a W to Australia's greatest logo. The AFL (W)...thanks Tayla. Very early on, her family realised, this girl was ...a fighter too ... much, much ... "More than a kick" Tayla Harris is a fighter.

I am a 71-year-old pensioner, from NSW. I have two daughters with their own children. I saw the spirit of Tayla in their young eyes. Your greatest luck was a loving dad. Tell him you grew up to live the part he missed.

You made his teenage dream come true - making the Carlton AFL... you even added W... just for him. I love sport too but I found, the journey of my life in rugby, both union and league. Thanks for the read Tayla, you are right - equality and inclusion are so important in the world right now, alongside burgeoning poverty - 60 per cent of the world's population live on our doorstep... 25 per cent are drop dead poor.

Make Canberra your next goal.

It's sad that we need books like Jonica Newby's "Beyond Climate Grief" ("How do we battle climate change?", 15/5).

However, many people are still grieving for the loss of their homes and personal possessions through fires and floods, or the loss of livestock, pets and native animals and plants. And while 33 people died in the fires, the recent Royal Commission was told that over 400 deaths were attributed to smoke. The majority of Australians, particularly young people but also parents and grandparents, are anxious about what climate change means for the future.

One thing is sure, Newby's forthcoming talk at the Jervis Bay Maritime Museum on June 1, will be emotional and a valuable opportunity to share stories, feelings and ideas. It should be well attended.