Joe Biden, recognising the urgent need for the world to act on climate change, wasted no time in re-joining the Paris Agreement.

Still PM Morrison and his mouthy sidekick continue to support coal as an energy source for decades.

We are about to be hit by another heatwave! The effects of global warming, exacerbating heatwaves and other extreme weather events, are evident all around us.

Will certain members of council reconsider calling a climate emergency? Councillors Koschel, Funnell, Braid and Kendall that is you, or does every state, town and country have to first?

The Biden administration is looking to the future. It is about time our government and council did, too.

Sarah Pollard Williams ("Councillor column hits the mark, identifies key issues", January 21) maintains that deputy PM Michael McCormack was in some way "offensive" in stating the truism that "all lives matter".

With some post-rational wokesplaining, it seems that this is so because, "it is widely accepted that all lives matter WHEN black lives matter" (capitals in the original).

Well, that's not true anyway. Uyghur lives clearly don't matter so how can "all" lives matter, let alone black ones?

The Socialist Utopia of China is making great progress in eradicating the minority status of this Muslim population by using them for the greater good - as an organ-transplant bank for everyone else; free concentration camp barracks provided.

Similarly, dissidents in Hong Kong or Russia, that other great People's Republic, have lives that don't matter - publicly dispute the next dictat from one's betters and one's very existence suddenly goes missing.

If those lives don't matter, then "all" lives don't matter, again let alone black ones.

George Pell's life didn't matter to those baying for the blood of a priest, any priest. And the only person in Australia convicted on less evidence than Pell was Lindy Chamberlain, mostly because people equated her religion with some sort of witchcraft.

Those lives didn't matter so even "WHEN" black lives matter, not "all" do.

The concept of "all lives" goes far beyond Pollard Williams' myopic focus on African Americans, and whatever tenuous relationship that might have to Australian Aboriginals.

Perhaps she might realise that "McCormack's half grasp on reality" is the other half of her own partial reality which she assumes to be a totality of wisdom when it's nothing of the sort.

Trained in economics and agriculture, I naturally have a leaning to the right side of politics. The idea of being rewarded financially for your investment of efforts and ingenuity is appealing.

However, at the age of 40 I have come to realise that neither side of politics in Australia share my views.

They seem totally focused on red and green tape as well as taxation. I'd suggest politicians have become lounge lizards, too busy watching Sky News and collecting benefits to speak to their communities.

To recover from this pandemic we need new vision from new leaders. Ones that support people who have a go.

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