I will be there with many other Bendigonians.  

We will be calling for the urgent release of the 2000 refugees (including 160 children) who are still held on Nauru and Manus Island.

More than 140 organisations have endorsed the walk. Among them is the Grandmothers Against Detention of Refugee Children. 

We cannot walk past the destructive and damaging treatment being perpetrated by Australian Government policy and funding of innocent children and people fleeing war and trauma.

We will not condone it. It is un-Australian.  

Coles has launched a national campaign to raise emergency funds at all its supermarkets for disaster-affected communities and farmers across NSW and Queensland.

To kick start the fundraising, Coles will donate $100,000 to Red Cross for affected communities, and provide $150,000 in grants to affected farmers.

Customers can make donations at more than 700 Coles supermarkets across Australia.

The donations will be directed to Red Cross to support disaster relief and recovery work in northern NSW and Queensland.

Coles wants to help communities recover from last week’s cyclone and resulting floods.

We hope by raising funds at our supermarkets and making a direct donation, we can help these communities at a time when they need it most.

In addition to supporting Red Cross by taking donations at all check-outs and providing $100,000 to cyclone and flood-affected communities, we will allocate $150,000 in grants through our Coles Nurture Fund to food producers and farmers who have lost crops and equipment.

Funds will help Red Cross continue its recovery work in Queensland and northern NSW communities now and for the long term.

All donations will help us to get relief teams into evacuation and recovery centres, reconnect families who have been separated, and go door-to-door to check how people are doing and offer information and support.

Tax cuts are high on the itineraries of the treasurer, finance minister and the PM; all of whom endure the same delusion that tax cuts for big business and wealthy individuals will result in "jobs and growth". Growth will appear only in profit margins.

Coalition statistical employment data for private sector worker growth is one hour plus per week. 

Malcolm Turnbull's claim has been articulate, "taxes have to be reduced as Australia is one of the highest taxing countries in the world, ahead of America and the UK".

He failed to conclude Australia has the highest political and public servant debt in the world, with one in every three, full time employees a politician or public servant enjoying opulent entitlements and retirement benefits, past and present.

A royal commission directed to align Australian public service costs to those aforementioned countries would absolutely be disqualified as a "prejudiced" umpire, never to be alluded to again.

Albeit we would undoubtedly see a healthy budget surplus with subdued negative gearing portfolios and a return to housing affordability.