Children – these are children. These are allegations of abuse of children under Australia's duty of care; your party's duty of care. 

I have raised this issue with you in person, because you do not respond to my phone calls or letters. Nor does your government. The public is learning of this systemic abuse. 

Caseworkers note the allegations and file them. Your government threatens them with two years’ jail if they speak out. The legal system in Nauru does not work. Most of these cases are not even looked into, let alone investigated by police. 

If your government does not do something now to investigate these claims properly, I will hold you responsible for not standing up and speaking out against this. These will be the children the Australian government will have to compensate for turning a blind eye to their abuse. 

I'm not sure an Independent children's advocate would help, given your government has ignored the findings of the Moss Report into conditions and abuse in Nauru and "The Forgotten Children" report in 2014 by Gillian Triggs, the President of the Australian Human Rights Commission. 

What are you going to do, Ann? You won only by a slim margin. This is your chance to right a wrong. 

What are we, the people of Gilmore, willing to accept in our name?

The Draft Wild Horse Management Plan for Kosciusko National Park is available for comment.

It was formulated after a lengthy consultative process with stakeholders, community and rigorous scientific advice.

Numbers of brumbies in Kosciusko NP are conservatively estimated at 6,000. The aim is to reduce numbers to a more manageable figure of about 600 over 20 years.

The increasing population is destroying the fragile environment and the species that rely on it. The damage will be irreversible, including ground and vegetation destruction, particularly in bogs and waterways, competition with native wildlife for food and habitat, overgrazing and vehicle accidents.

Control methods include trapping and mustering for re-homing or abattoir; or culling by ground shooting; fertility control and fencing. NO aerial shooting is proposed. Fertility control is ineffective in the short term, but will be implemented when numbers are reduced.

Although re-homing will occur when possible, it is inadequate. In the past 13 years, only 18 per cent of the 3,183 brumbies trapped were rehomed. The remainder were sent to an abattoir.

Historically, brumbies were essential to farmers grazing the area, and numbers were managed (often inhumanely) when they became a nuisance. Times have changed. Immediate humane action is required.

Either something is done now or we must take responsibility for the extinction of threatened and endangered species and ecosystems, as well as the loss of a unique Australian alpine and sub-alpine environment.

Before voting at this year's local council elections, consider what the name HuntFest means to you.

Ask candidates how they feel about promoting such an event.  Do we want this in Narooma? Apart from councillors Harding and Brice, this is what the rest of councillors voted for and what a council director recommended. A further extension of the licence to promote the display and sale of firearms and the promotion of trophy hunting.