Noelle asks whether she is missing something, so I am happy to help out.

The most consistent temperature record in our area is at the Rutherglen Research Station which has records from 1913 until the present.

From 1914 to 1918 (five years) there was a total of three days when the temperature exceeded 40C.

Exactly 100 years later (from 2014 to 2018) there were 32 days that exceeded 40C.

In case Noelle is not convinced that the temperatures are increasing, there are other ways to demonstrate the trend.

For example, in 1850 there were 150 glaciers in Glacier National Park in the US and now there are 25.

Also, since satellite monitoring began in 1979, the volume of summer Arctic sea-ice has gone down by 70 per cent.

In addition, the first-ever coral bleaching (due to exceptionally high ocean temperatures) was recorded in the late 1970s and now bleaching is a regular world-wide phenomenon.

Perhaps Noelle was away in January of this year when Rutherglen had 10 days above 40C, including one day of 45.9C (115F) which is way above the 105F that Noelle found for the 1880s.

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An urgent Royal Commission into medical colleges and medical training institutions is mandatory.

The colleges charge excessive fees to members and trainees for no service.

The fees to sit post-graduate exams of $5000-plus are extortionate.

Hospital credentials committees use their position to disallow properly qualified doctors access to their facilities, which is illegal restriction of trade.

Training posts in hospitals are severely restricted by the colleges, with the result that many trainees are dangerously overworked and some end up committing suicide.

There is no need for "accredited" training positions as trainees can be trained at any facility that has a trainer, a trainee and training facilities.

Accredited positions are purely designed to restrict specialist numbers and so protect the high fees of consultants.

Melbourne University requires another degree before a student can begin a medical course.

Why? Because it can.

This merely adds a HECS burden of about $90,000 to a student's training for no reason except university greed.

The medical colleges must be disbanded.

An impartial and transparent training and examining body which does not have a vested interest is required.

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I watched Bridget McKenzie's address on Wednesday and I thought it is too late for the Nationals to claim that they have been looking after the regions.

The party's former leader wanted to lead but realised he does not have too much support in his own party.

He was the minister for water and was responsible for the water theft and has been been trying to gain support to again become leader.

If the Nationals think he should be a leader again then they are delusional.

Why has it taken so long to have the Nats represent regional Australia?