We have grown in a few years with little resources to an impactful charity that recently was awarded the NSW Men's Health Award. We are a fully-registered charity with the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission (ACNC) and have deductible gift recipient (DGR) status.

We fund the equipment, marketing and everything else involved and we are looking for a member of the Cessnock community to be our BBQ Host for a couple of hours each month. Check out our website, www.mrperfect.org.au, for more information or to register to become a host.

As a grandfather of six and as a resident of Cessnock, I am concerned about the lack of meaningful action in Australia to address the challenge of climate change.

I will be supporting the global climate strike on Friday, September 20 at 11.30am at Turner Park, Aberdare. Climate change will not go away by ignoring it. Every day meaningful action is not taken means the problem becomes greater, more difficult and more expensive to address.

As a global problem climate change appears overwhelming, but there are actions we can take at a local level which will make a difference for our community both present and future. A rope is made up of many strands. Each strand alone may have little strength but combined with many others has the ability to move great masses. Individually our efforts may seem insignificant but if we work together we can transition our towns and countryside to the new zero carbon economies and fairer societies we can and must become.

I look forward to Friday, September 20 as a turning point globally and locally in the fight to create a climate safe world for our children and grandchildren.

If Joel Fitzgibbon is deadly serious about helping farmers and those who do not live in major cities on the coast he really need to get behind what John Barilaro and the Nationals proposed at the last state election and that is the Bradfield scheme.

If Joel can convince his comrades in the Queensland Labor Government of the merit of a such a nation-building project, we can get on with building what could arguably change agriculture in this country for the better forever. With water diverted from the Burdekin, Tully and Herbert rivers there would be enough water for not only western southern Queensland but for water to be fed into the Darling River system thus helping that river system. Never forget that Labor scrapped Tillegra Dam and being on the driest continent on Earth we must build more water storage. So please Joel, if you want to help farmers and communities west of the divide, get behind this.

A survey/modelling should be carried out regarding the effectiveness of allocating space for bus stops in Vincent Street.

If that dangerous camouflaging shrubbery on the approach side of the pedestrian crossing was removed (as it should be, regardless) there would be plenty of room for passengers to enter/leave buses at pedestrian crossings, leaving bus stops free for parking. Of course some reduction in traffic flow would occur at bus times, but considering that caused by traffic lights/parallel parking, and the infrequent nature of bus traffic I doubt that it would be significant.

A trial could start tomorrow, all one needs is to change the signage.