The only thing I would like to say to Ken Morehouse is this: Don’t pick out a bit of the Bible that happens to suit your way of thinking, everything must be read in context and is connected to each other. Scripture doesn’t contradict itself as the Bible itself confirms “all scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work” (2 Timothy 3:16).

A few weeks ago there was a bill introduced into the upper house of the NSW Parliament, by the Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party, that there be a plebiscite of the people of councils which were forcibly amalgamated, to find out if they wish to de-amalgamate.

The Bill was supported and passed, then moved to the lower house for debate on August 3. The whole of the hour allocated for debate was taken up by the Minister for Local Government, Gabriel Upton.

This action is known as a filibuster, and is reported to have not occurred in the lower house before, although apparently has been used in the upper house. It is also used as a delaying tactic in the US congress.

Further hearing of the bill was deferred until some time in the future. The Minister was reported to have spoken against council amalgamations in the past. Was this a Liberal Party ploy to delay a vote until after the Cootamundra by-election?

The conservatives are doing it again, they are trying to find a way to stop power prices from rising.

Don't they know that the reason power prices are so high is because of the massive profits being made by all links in the chain from production to retail? They are talking about limiting renewables as a way of reducing costs. They are nuts. This is as good as the 21st century NBN no-one has.

Just recently we heard about the two Greens senators who were compelled to resign their office in the Senate (Scott Ludlam and Larissa Waters) and then there is also Liberal Senator Matt Canavan, who resigned his cabinet portfolio and referred his case to the High Court.

In fact, we were told by the Sydney Morning Herald that there are more than 20 other MPs currently serving in the Australian Parliament who were born overseas and have not released their citizenship renunciation documents to the public.

Now this might seem like ‘no big deal’, however if our MPs want to take on the job of representing the public, being the people’s conscience and voice, they need to be transparent, and they need to dot every ‘I’ and cross every ’T’, for they have taken up a high calling, a position of great authority.

The fact that there is a cloud over so many of our parliamentarians’ citizenship at this time shows there is a general lack of accountability within government ranks to ensure all representatives qualify for the very responsible positions they hold.

So far, from all our overseas born MPs, only former Prime Minister Tony Abbott, who renounced his British citizenship in 1993, has publicly released his renunciation documentation.

It is hard to accept that those who have recently resigned didn’t know that they were not eligible to stand as a candidate for a political party. Citizenship tests should be mandatory in every party’s preselection processes.