The aim of the video is to make the May 18 election the climate election and was conceived by Climate Action Gilmore.

Made up of four groups - Eurobodalla 350, Coastwatchers, Nature Coast Marine Group and SHASA (Southcoast Health and Sustainability Alliance), Climate Action Gilmore wants to see Australia's environmental policies determined by science, not politics.

We were making our way from Queensland to Adelaide via Tomakin so, on Anzac Day, we made our way to Moruya for the ANZAC Day march and service.

We were very impressed with the service in your town.

Some things stood out.

They included the number of women contributing to the service, which I thought was excellent.

What really prompted me to write this letter is the outstanding speech by the Brigadier.

We have been going to Anzac Day services for many years and this is the best address I have heard.

It was very thoughtful and moving, urging us to think of tomorrow as we are remembered and commemorated the efforts by our service personnel in the past.

Thank you Moruya.

I will always remember your 2019 Anzac Day service.

Having re-read the agenda for the April 30 Eurobodalla Shire Council meeting and the report attached, it appears that there is a softening in council, however much reluctantly in some quarters, to the prospect of having a 50-metre Olympic pool in the Mackay Park development.

The language around the expression of the desire of councillors to see how plan D could accommodate it and the way the report points out that it wasn't even meant to be part of the survey, spring to mind as examples.

Even if councillors had resolved in the past to go with the 25-metre pool, a stroke of their pen could change that now. The power is theirs to exercise in line with the community's wishes.

If the survey was meant to tick the requisite consultation box for grants and other support from higher levels of government, then the overwhelming number of "supports" for the larger pool must have given council shock enough to have a second thoughts about how the survey can be used.

It was also pleasing to read many of the submissions - the Batemans Bay Indoor Aquatic Centre Committee was extremely important, I think, because they have been so "close" with council over the past years and now they have written an endorsement of the 50-metre pool. Noticeable though was the absence of anything in the form of a submission from schools and sporting bodies other than the swimming club. Wonder why?

It would be a good thing now, on the strength of the perceived softening, to register thanks to the mayor and councillors (even if it wasn't all of them) for making the proposed brief for plan D so much clearer in relation to providing for the overwhelming wishes of the community for the bigger pool. We should also urge them to ensure full costings are done now on the building of the bigger pool at the outset vs doing it later.