This week for Australian Community Media's Pub Test series, Jeff explains how his career has taken him from the United Nations to the Tuggeranong Community Council and shapes the way he values supporting all types of communities.

It began as a kid when he worked with his dad at a Returned and Services League organisation which supports people who have served or are serving in the Australia Defence Force and also spent "a lot of years" volunteering for a first aid organisation.

"I've done things on a voluntary basis kind of my whole life ... what was in it wasn't a financial return or those sorts of things but it was a kind of commitment to community and doing things," he said.

Jeff's career has also played a large role in serving others as an aeronautical navigation systems engineer. It first brought him to the capital in 1983 as a part of government departments being consolidated in Canberra.

"When I moved to Canberra, Canberra was an administrative territory under the Commonwealth and didn't have local government so gone through from there and I think I've always been a below the line type of voter. I go for the people rather than the party," he said.

I think I'd have difficulty in joining a political party because I like bits of various policies from both sides of the house."

Beyond the locality of Canberra, Jeff has spent time in Quebec as a member of the UN International Civil Aviation Organisation during the period when MH17 was shot down in 2014.

His work was "purely through an aviation type lens" but also involved "being aware of global politics" as one of two Australian representatives in the organisation that had multiple international members during the tense geo-political period.

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"Our immediate neighbours were Malaysian and two doors down the corridor were our Russian colleagues so you were sharing the tea room with them," he said.

The period of time "triggered a whole stack of activities" about the security of flights and international aviation which Jeff played a large part in with his expertise while working for the global community.

"For me it was a chance to live in a different environment, I had the opportunity to visit some sort of different sorts of countries," he said.

The state of the environment has given Jeff "a level of exposure" when his career required the management of the environmental system and status from the aviation lens.

"We need to do something about climate change...there are strategies that need to be in place," he said.

The studies about nuclear power versus coal fired power and those sorts of things, we're not even considering the nuclear option."

Environmental policies that former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull tried to pursue were a positive step in Jeff's opinion and found it "a bit disappointing" that it was lost.

Australia's approach to climate change through using carbon credits and account tricks is something that concerns Jeff and "it kind of worries me that we're exporting fossil fuels".

"We're sending coking coal overseas to produce steel and then we're buying steel back. Well, there's still the same amount of carbon that's been put into the atmosphere," he said.

The remainder of the Pub Test participants were dialling their focus onto local corflutes this week, particularly with the anti David Pocock signs spreading over the ACT.

The Canberra Times revealed at least three long-time political allies of Liberal senator Zed Seselja were linked to controversial right-wing group Advance Australia that is running political attack ads against candidates, which Ash Laing saw as wrong.

"It's a very disrespectful way of going about an election, slandering someone to try and get them to lose but I actually thought the craziest thing about it was that it's not illegal," Ash said.

Cost of living has also been a major area of concern for members as they all notice the increase in inflation to 5.1 per cent beginning to hit the supermarkets and fuel pumps.

"We've been noticing the groceries going up for quite a long time and certainly more than 5 per cent in a lot of cases," Raelene Dunstall said.

Bri Williams hoped there would be further debates between Anthony Albanese and Prime Minister Scott Morrison, in particular a youth focused one that has been offered by The Daily Aus.

"They've got Albanese on the yes, they're just waiting for Scomo which I hope gets up," she said.