Anyone doing so is scaremongering.

Data for the ABS division of Southern Highlands and Shoalhaven, which takes in my electorate of Gilmore, shows overall unemployment has fallen 2.2 per cent since I was elected. 

It is wrong to say there is no pre-apprenticeship training scheme under the Turnbull Government. In 2012, the then-Labor government cut $1.2 billion from employer incentives and sent apprenticeships into freefall.

Not one dollar of Labor’s $1.75 billion National Partnership Agreement was allocated to the TAFE system. Our $1.5 billion Skilling Australia Fund is providing targeted funding to reverse that dramatic fall. Funding for TAFE has always been a state responsibility.

Not content with a non-factual “Mediscare”, Labor is talking “Jobscare” in Gilmore. Our community is smarter than that.

Eurobodalla Shire Council Mayor Liz Innes: would you please explain in your next column why the $6.5 million extra quoted from Odium's assessment of the costs associated with replacing the 25-metre pool in their concept plan with a (more sensible) Olympic sized 50-metre pool includes the provision of a relocatable boom that would allow the pool to be divided into two 25-metre pools.

This extra feature distorts the cost comparison and simply is not needed.

It has often been said that plans can be drawn up to allow for future expansion of the pool and the auditorium; If that's the case, why can't the brief for the architects' tender submissions, hopefully publicly available, include these aspects, not only as future expansion possibilities but as alternate costing analyses for inclusion up front when the expense will be far more affordable than if attempted later on?

I was appalled by the spectacle of the brave Scots runner Callum Hawkins, lying on the pavement with heatstroke, whilst the field ran on. 

My mind went to devout Christian and Scotsman Eric Liddell, portrayed in the film Chariots of Fire, stopping to pick up a fallen runner in a 400-metre lead-up race, then running on to win that race and ultimately the gold medal at the Paris Olympics of 1924.

What about our own John Landy stopping to pick up a fallen runner - I think it was it Ron Clark – later a 10,000 metre world record holder and ironically Mayor of the Gold Coast City Council? Stopping didn't stop Landy later running on to be a world record holder medallist at Melbourne's 1956 Olympics and a true blue Aussie legend.

I am so upset by the debasement of every sport and endeavour becoming just a commercial brand and media opportunity to be exploited.

Eric Liddell died of malnutrition as a Christian missionary in a Japanese internment camp in China, giving up his turn for liberation to others. The great and gracious Australian athlete Betty Cuthbert, gold medallist in two Olympic games, followed her Christian beliefs as an MS sufferer and tireless helper to that cause. To be truly a legend in life or sport there is a decision to be made – love your fellow human beings, not the "gold" rewards it may bring; real gold not fools gold.

I have booked the Narooma Leisure Centre from 10.30am-noon on Sunday, April 22, to screen the video Chariots of Fire.