There are politicians, political parties and media organisations in this country who promote anti immigrant and extreme right wing ideas and they should be held accountable for the toxicity of their ideas.

With elections now due, both NSW and federal, no party appears to present a coherent, planned and costed policy to deal with climate change and our contribution to global warming - and we ask why.

To try and understand, it’s best to separate continuing climate change, which never ceases, from the global warming aspect. Climate change that is with us now is a reality that creates drought, floods and fire that can cripple our lives and our economy. No government has any policy to work on preventing and if possible controlling these events.

Disaster funding is always after the event and a fortune is spent by everyone in restoring assets. Long term policies and expenditure is needed to address these issues and if possible minimise our carbon footprint.

Electricity generation contributes about 35% of our carbon footprint through the use of coal, which is used to create 58% of power backed up by hydro power at 19% and gas at 13%. The balance of 10% is created by other sources including renewables (solar, wind etc). These figures can and will be challenged but the reality is we have a long, long way to go to move completely to renewables which can be backed up by battery storage.

My comment is simply no political party has presented a coherent policy, properly planned and costed to move in this direction. Different states of both political persuasions have privatised different components of power supply by selling power plants and poles and wires to obtain cash to spend on other infrastructure projects - not including renewing electricity supply.

The mix of commonwealth, state and private enterprise involvement in the whole structure is what is increasing your power bill, as there is no one responsible body (as there would be if power was considered an essential service controlled by one government). The politicians of all persuasions have created this mess and they all skirt around dealing with what are major problems as they do not have the ability to create a collective way forward.

After signing up with a service provider last week with a NBN50 plan I was expecting speeds up to 50MBPS.

Sadly disappointed as only receiving speeds in the high 20s and low 20s during the peak evening period. While this appears significantly better than the old ADSL, the reality is it is barely noticeable.

Rang my service provider who could not improve the speeds. The reason being the ageing copper cabling from the node for a distance of about 1km would not support higher speeds.  Asked them to complain to NBN however they stated they could not do so. Suggested I take up a lower speed plan and put up with poor service.

This community has been sold a pup. FTTN technology with copper cabling decades old was never going to support the kind of speeds others in the cities have and it is the technology rolled out to the vast majority in the Bega Valley. NBN Co needs to came back and fix this mess.