My wife and I were surprised, therefore, to attend the Roads and Maritime Service Centre last week to change our car registration, where we were asked to produce our marriage certificate.

This led me to wonder what other equal rights might not be there, particularly when my daughter, currently unable to marry her long-time partner, gets to our age.

Will she be asked for a marriage certificate if her not legally recognised wife is in hospital, or worse?

Australia Post apparently charges hundreds of dollars for a name change, but not if you can provide a – you guessed it – marriage certificate.

Those who oppose same sex marriage are resting their hopes on the oldies like me.

But if you think we are going to support discrimination against our own kids and grandkids, you are about to be very disappointed.

My daughter doesn’t need my permission to get married. But she needs yours. Please join me in voting yes.

Regarding Greyhound Australia stopping services into Goulburn:

I believe they have made the wrong call on this because it was cheaper to travel to Canberra on Greyhound as NSW Trainlink prices are overcharged.

Now that they don’t have the service there, a lot of Goulburn people simply won’t travel anymore.

It was a good service for people that live in Goulburn and work in Canberra.

Now it’s going to be harder for them to do so, and that could mean lost jobs.

No wonder the shock jocks and commercial media want to emasculate the ABC.

They then have a free rein foisting their own bias and fake news on us.

What really angers me is this so called ‘Liberal’ Government has never tried to stop the blatant promotion of themselves by News Corp et al.

Bias is in the mind of the beholder!

If the ABC didn't exist we would be “Trump’ed” like America! 

Thanks for the kind words, James Hasler (Letters to the Editor, September 13.)

Your letter of encouragement in the Goulburn Post has got me wondering if perhaps I should stand for election again.

Where I went wrong last time was that I was my own campaign manager and, as Abraham Lincoln said, ‘A man who represents himself in court has a fool for a client’.

The same principle applies in politics.

What a candidate needs is a campaign manager who can give honest and fearless advice. Not a `yes` man, but a hard-as-nails, warts-and-all, right-hand-man who tells it like it is.

James Hasler, you’re just that man. But there’s a problem, James.  I’ve lived in Goulburn for 40 years and thought I knew all the movers and shakers, but apparently not.

So I asked around. Nobody could point me in your direction. James, Jim, Jamie, Jimbo, Jimmy. No luck. No one has ever heard of you.

Give me a call, mate. (Bet you don’t.)