In fact, disruptive toxic stirring up trouble of councillors is behaviour we the public are finished with for good.

Instead, praise and much prayers of thanks for our mayor's steady hand and generous calm as he has cared for us and our city during his time in office, with his lovely wife in the background.

I am hoping and praying as I write that infanticide and the present law forbidding abortion will not be overturned.

We speak up for the helpless babies in the womb: "I want to live."

Because, God help us, the other states condone this death of the innocents.

These states are not correct in their unforgiving decision to kill.

Keith Wheeler's column "Worry about the real council emergencies" (The Daily Advertiser, July 29) completely misses the point of the Wagga Wagga City Council's climate emergency declaration.

There are 40 billion tonnes of carbon going into the Earth's atmosphere each year as a result of industrial processes, transport, agriculture and other sources of emission.

Since the Earth's atmosphere is only 100km deep, can anyone truly think we can keep up this level of emissions with no consequences?

Professor Ross Garnaut's 2008 Climate Change Review for the Australian Government and Lord Stern's 2006 UK report on the Economics of Climate Change both estimated that action to reduce emissions would cost approximately 1 per cent of GDP in the short term, but with great economic advantages for the long term.

These reports are dated so no doubt the cost of action would be even greater, and the longer we resist the reform that is needed, the higher the cost will become.

WWCC had a chance to show leadership and to take local action. Lake Albert and the roads will become meaningless if we have older people and children dying because of extreme heat events, and all of us affected by the so-called 'one-in-a-hundred-year' flood and drought events that are now happening much more regularly.

These weather extremes were all predicted in relation to the rising levels of CO2 in the atmosphere.

Imagine a growing number of local councils overtaking our pathetic federal government on climate action.

It's up to us to show leadership as a community.

Regarding Deputy Premier John Barilaro's recent comments against a proposal from the Royal Australasian College of Physicians about setting a minimum price for alcohol.

It is obviously about doctors, nurses and police. He has never seen or worked at these frontline services when he attacks the push for a floor price for alcohol.

Otherwise, if he had, he would not run around belittling researchers and academics and underpaid workers who are confronted every day in the real world of working in the face of the disaster that is now happening.

So John Barilaro, how about getting out of the gilded cage and have a look around.