We have a reprehensible history of treatment of people of colour and it must be addressed - now!

And, one woman per week dies as a result of domestic violence and this must be addressed now! Women's lives matter!

And, it is the now most common call out category for police.

In one Victorian suburb it accounts for two-thirds of all police call outs.

WHO data state that suicide is among the three leading causes of death among those aged 15-44 years with youth suicide rising at the fastest rate. Children's lives matter!

World Health Organisation forecasts make it clear that "diseases of meaning" will continue well into the next millennium to be the major cause of suffering worldwide.

Australian media have noted emergency services personnel being in a "state of crisis," as suicide rates increase annually in the past few years. All lives matter!

We cannot lose this moment to address racial iniquity but we should also understand that it is the surfacing of a global pandemic of loss of meaning.

Division can never be solved by more division.

We should stand together and reject any and all language of division and violence.

Poor Captain Cook!

A master-mariner, he came to our part of the world transporting a group of astronomers to observe the transit of Venus across the sun.

After his ship called into Botany Bay for its water and wood supplies to be recharged, his landing was obstructed by two aboriginal warriors.

A light shot was fired into the leg of one, who took his weapons and left.

Cook then proceeded to engage in investigative tourism up the east coast of Australia.

On a subsequent voyage he covered much of the Pacific, and surveyed some of the west coast of the United States.

Hardly the stuff of imperialism and genocide.

He was finally clubbed and stabbed to death by the people of Hawaii.

Bring back full service. Jobs and jobs and connections for community.

If the state government wants to spread population to Bendigo, Ballarat and Geelong, then it needs to provide the infrastructure.

It has local support so let's get moving.

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