If you among the almost 400 who attended, you would have experienced a magical evening in an atmosphere of true community-spirit.

Take a bow Jazz Williams, of the NSW South-East Arts Council; Lizzy Rutter, director of Grow the Music; Warren Foster Jr, the irrepressible MC; and all the boys and girls, men and women who delighted us. The last two acts deserve a special mention.

Gabadoo, an up-and-coming Bermagui singer, performed Home on the Hill, an emotional rendition of his life, and received enthusiastic applause. 

The renowned, velvety-voiced singer/songwriter Neil Murray of My Island Home fame, treated us to a repertoire of his compositions.

What awesome talent; what reverent humility. Thank you all for welcoming us to your village and giving us a night to remember.

Until 2017.

Maggie Havu

North Narooma

Dan Field’s letter (Narooma News, September 28) contains a convoluted argument for how the outcome of the recent council election should be seen as representing majority community support for Huntfest. 

However, a close examination of the campaign, and the results in the Narooma area, point to a very different conclusion. 

Given the prominence of the Huntfest (and associated gun sales) controversy over the past few years, a notable feature of the campaign was the complete absence amongst candidates of any publicly stated support for Huntfest.

It did appear that not any of the candidates were wanting to risk the local voter backlash that would almost certainly have been associated with the adoption of a public pro-gun stance. 

On the other hand, the Greens and Community Voice Eurobodalla (CVE) candidates clearly articulated their views on Huntfest and gun sales in their campaign and policy statements. 

The results in the Narooma area (ie Narooma, Dalmeny and Central Tilba together with Narooma pre-poll) make interesting and informative reading.

They show the Greens and CVE groups secured a total of 845 first preference votes in those four booths, compared to a paltry total of 317 votes for the groups associated with the three councillors (Innes, Pollock and Leslight) who are on the official record for having supported the Narooma Huntfest/gun sales issue. 

More than two-and-a-half times as many people in the Narooma area voted for candidates who were publicly opposed to the Huntfest/gun sales issue than voted for those candidates who had officially supported Huntfest and gun sales.

Jim Bright

Narooma

I am very pleased Bega MP Andrew Constance has announced the implementation of a bottle and can deposit scheme from July.

The collection of bottles and cans used to be a great way for kids to earn cash; my wife got to know how far from Bega the bottles would be drunk and flung from the cars.

She cleaned up those litter 'hot spots' and saved it to help pay her way through uni.

Rubbish littering our land gets reduced, people get better educated and kids can earn their way, instead of putting their hands out to parents.

A triple whammy.

Alan Burdon, Dignams Creek

We choose to live in a dangerously trivialised world, and therefore must share the blame for its most grievous faults; such as treating refugees as common felons, rather than innocent victims seeking to flee a nightmare we helped to create.

Or the ludicrous paradox of the most powerful nation on Earth electing as its leader a man of such blustering bigotry, boastful deception and venal perception to threaten the survival of us all in a desperately simplistic bid to comfort a deprived underclass. 

We are all responsible for the shameful existence of Donald Trump; a man, if ever there was one, to truly represent the shabbily withered state of our human condition at the dawn of the third millennium.

Ian McFarlane

Wallaga Lake

Change is inevitable, but it’s how you navigate it that matters.

We urge everyone who cares about our society to remember we all deserve respect and dignity.

Our country’s success is built on a fair go for all. Humanity is universal in nature and urges that all people – no matter their gender, race or religion – be treated with respect, and given the chance to live life in dignity.

We have choices: a fair go for all, or just for some; unity or separation. We all have the chance to nurture and promote the kindness, compassion and goodness.

At Red Cross, we work for unity, humanity and the inherent dignity of every person.

We encourage all Australians and our community, political and business leaders to do the same.

Judy Slatyer

Australia Red Cross CEO