I only put my waste (red bin) out monthly.

There should be a concession for people living alone, as a monthly service for all bins would be ample for me.

Most pensioners will find the rise in rates to cover the extra bin collection a burden.

Also if the organic waste could have been dealt with locally surely this would have been a much cheaper option than taking it to Stanhope.

New English Prime Minister Theresa May has declared that she will govern for all of the English people, and not, just for the chosen few.

That would certainly be a welcome change for many in the UK, as some of the accommodation witnessed ordinary people “live in” could be only described as deplorable.

Back home here in Australia some conservative members of the Liberal party still have not got the message as to the large swing against their government. 

If they are seriously saying that the superannuation measures taken by Turnbull and Morrison effecting just four per cent of the population was the cause of this political hernia, then they had better think again — and quick.

It is all of the people that matter — not four per cent, and in case you hadn't noticed, the bottom 50 per cent have been getting slugged for years.

That's why you nearly lost the election, as well as the four seats in Tasmania.

But there had to be some good news to come out of the election disaster, and we did not have long to wait for it.

South Australian senator Cory Bernadi is going to form his own Conservative party, and it shouldn't be too hard to get some starters, Abetz, Andrews, Dutton, Abbott, Christianson, Bernardi and any other like minded individual who would like to join.

I wouldn't like the job as the manager of ticket sales promoting the Socially Backward Extremist Party, you would starve.

Many would welcome Bernardi’s pitch to the Conservatives in the LNP to form a breakaway group. 

This would finally relieve us of any influence from those individuals which could only create a more civil environment, and bring a coalition of a Labor/Liberal alliance closer to reality, combining the best of both party's ideas, stop the white anting, and get on with governing for all Australians, which has not happened for a very, very, long time.

Govern for all Australians, where have I heard that before.

Anyway, good luck Cory.

Don't slam the door on the way out.

The Department of Immigration and Border Protection has so nearly perfected its culture of secrecy that it now can't/won't tell us how many shipments of asbestos-contaminated building materials they have allowed into Australia.

Maybe it is time for the government to show some transparency and accountability.