Opposition Leader Michael Daley will offer higher taxes and that will turn away private investment and jobs growth. That simply is not a positive plan. We cannot go back to wasteful city-centric spending and a lack of competitiveness compared to other states. People in our great state particurlaly in Rural NSW have worked too hard to go back to negativity now.

Gladys Berejiklian will run a government dedicated to supporting private investment and jobs, she also believes in supporting working people and has shown on so many occassions she is also compassionate and understanding, and the Premier is dedicated to working hard with a capable team in government having done the ground work as an experienced cabinet minister before rising to be Premier.

Our state's best days are still to come and to achieve this we need four more years of economic opportunity and that will happen under a Coalition government led by Premier Gladys Berejiklian and John Barilaro beacuse Rural NSW deserves opportunity, incentive and investment over negative politics. I urge support for this government to continue.

Shane Moran,

Tamworth

At 85 I am old enough to remember the dreadful 'six o'clock swill' when men ceased work at 5.30pm, rushed to their local pub and drank as much alcohol as they could hold until 6pm, when the bar-mans stentorian voice announced "Time gentlemen please". Eventually people-power reigned and the hours were altered.

In a different context now but with the same people-power desperately needed, it is time to tap the government on the shoulder and whisper in their little "shell-pinks": "Time gentlemen please". Time to realise that Australia's most important basic industry, the farming community, is on its knees from the most severe and certainly the most widespread drought in our history, occurring west of the Great Dividing range from Queensland to South Australia.

Can this government and the next in May, afford to simply sit on their hands and do nothing until our farming community, which feeds and clothes this ungrateful nation and provides it with vital foreign exchanges, simply wastes away to total destruction?

Time gentlemen please to bow subsidise the purchased feed that is keeping our sheep and cattle alive.

John Courtney, Inverell

NAB was born in the bush 160 years ago and regional Australia is as important to our future as it has been to our past.

As a bank we acknowledge that some of the things we have heard and seen in recent years have contributed to a breakdown in trust, particularly in regional Australia.

This week our Chief Executive Philip Chronican has announced we will keep open all NAB branches in regional and rural Australia until at least January 2021. This extends on our existing commitment of no branch closures in drought-affected areas to all regional and rural communities across Australia.

While two branches will be proposed for closure in coming weeks, other NAB branches are located in the same regional cities and significant investment will be made in upgrading services in those cities. If, following consultation with local teams, the proposals to close go ahead in these locations, all employees will remain in a role with NAB.

We know that Australia is undergoing significant change - and impacts like branch closures can be difficult for communities. The local NAB branch and the bankers we employ can play a key role in supporting communities and customers through change and we want to provide certainty that we will continue to be there.

NAB will also open customer connect centres in Toowoomba, Tamworth, Bendigo and Bunbury to better service regional, agribusiness and small business customers across Australia. The hubs will employ specialist bankers with local insights and experience who will partner with regional and agribusiness customers to help them grow their businesses.

We are listening, we understand the opportunities and the challenges, and we will be there for another 160 years and beyond to help communities create growth.

Our commitment to doing better starts now. We are more determined than ever to do what it takes to be a better bank for regional Australia.

Krissie Jones, NAB Executive General Manger, Retail