However, this letter is not about marriage equality. It is about elected members of parliament not doing their job, whilst accepting good salaries and benefits from fellow Australians, who put them there to make decisions.

They are proposing to ask for our view by way of a very expensive plebiscite or not quite as expensive voluntary postal ballot.

My opinion of the available evidence is that there is strong support, probably a minority, strong objection, again probably a minority, with the rest of the community just wishing the matter dealt with so that the government can address more important issues.

Whatever the result of the plebiscite or postal ballot, some members of Parliament have said they will not necessarily vote in accordance with that result. Therefore, the best result those supporting marriage equality can expect is a conscience vote in Parliament.

We can have that now at no cost, if the Turnbull Government would stop hiding behind the furphy of not breaking an election promise.

Therefore, since parliamentarians will not do their job, all costs associated with the plebiscite or the postal ballot should be paid for by parliamentarians by way of deductions from their salaries. 

People voting in the Same Sex Marriage plebiscite need to think very carefully about what they vote for.

SSM advocates want to change the Marriage Act in a way which takes all meaning out of a marriage as we know it … between a man and a woman.

It is not the SSM which is the problem. It is the fact that the UN and New World Order, driven by socialists, are behind the denigration of our culture and tradition. It is part of making us a communist/socialist country under their sovereign rule.

Love, what is it?

We hear the statement, “if two people love each other they should be allowed to marry.”

We see and hear of teenage crushes, sometimes with a teacher; infatuation, making love, having sex, in a relationship, matrimonial intercourse, procreation. These are some of the stages that one might have come across in life.

We see immense sibling devotion, brother and sister love, that of twins and we have all seen with amazement identical twins. We see the love of father and daughter, mother and son, parents and their children; where do they fit in with that statement?

The terms of endearment father and mother, mum and dad are under threat with the gender bender theory; if you have young family you need to look behind the headlines.

Is there really a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow? 

It is such a shame to see what has happened to our local university and its nursing training.

CSU was always able to pride itself on its work ready graduates. Although the academic teaching remains at a high standard, the quality of practical placements CSU has been able to access has fallen well below expectation.

I can't see how the university will be able to continue to attract candidates if it goes on this way. You can do three years of nursing there and have no placements in an acute busy hospital setting.

This puts the graduates at a disadvantage when they look for work, It can only end up impacting negatively on the university.