There also has been a minority that have been stirrers and who were politically motivated and did not act in the best interests of Albury City and council. Some of them have been women. 

I would like to see the people of Albury vote for someone who has passion, energy and the interests of Albury at heart – whether they are male or female – and also not political. In regards to Graham Docksey being away overseas, everyone is entitled to have holidays at times – more so Cr Docksey, who has served our country proud in wartime and peacetime for 46 years (army).

If anyone deserves a break, Graham does.

When not away he has given 100 per cent to the Albury City Council, taking up a lot of his time and energy.

To say Cr Docksey doesn't represent the community and is not actively involved is totally absurd and wrong.

Your article “Mayor wants G20 climate action” (The Border Mail, September 3) was most timely.

Thirty mayors from across the world are calling on national leaders to help them build a low-carbon, climate-safe world.

Do you think Albury’s next mayor will show similar leadership?

Non-partisan climate advocacy group Wodonga and Albury Towards Climate Health surveyed all 10 Albury Council above-the-line candidates and 60 per cent gave climate action the highest possible priority score when asked to rate it on a five-point scale.

If you’d like to find out how each candidate views climate change and their proposed actions if elected, visit: watch.id.au. Their responses may surprise you.

The bishop of Grantham emerges more as a nervous survivor than a hero for justice in the latest revelation of sexual diversity in the Church of England hierarchy.

It is rather the church has been outed as a threat to inclusive modern Britain.

Far more revealing than the burka or burkini coverage, this latest contribution to the sexuality debate of the Church of England is inspired by raw fear of the institutional Trojan horse that has given us choral evensong, alongside unchallenged cells  of intolerance within the borders of British society.

Nicholas Chamberlain is a consecrated victim who finds himself apologising for the imagination of the creator and the “management” dissembling as to why he has not (yet) been punished.  

The ghastly truth is a conservative reading of the Christian “handbook” has delivered a series of quiet blows to human flourishing including the subjection of women, the abuse of children and intolerance of difference from which the modern western world is painfully emerging.

All those committed to human rights should challenge the international conservative voices now raised as theological space junk falling heavily and threatening the welfare of a global community.

The pain inflicted by conservative religious traditions is expected to be borne in silence and we should celebrate signs that the world in which only God hears the muffled screams, is coming to an end.