2025 Pia Dollmann award winner Nick Lambert with Mayor Nikki Williams. Mayor Nikki Williams with Dee Wallace Award winners, Green Bluff Landcare: Jan Allen, Deb Kelly, Craig Bellamy, Cathy Willis and Lindy Davis. Eileen Moody Award winner John Wackett with Mayor Nikki Williams and Cr Jonathan Cassell. COFFS Harbour Regional Landcare’s (CHRL) annual awards took […]
Southern Cross University’s groundbreaking kinship care research project
STUDYING the lived experience of children and young people living in kinship care is at the centre of a groundbreaking Australian Research Council-funded project, led by Southern Cross University (SCU). The research seeks to reimagine how to strengthen belonging, identity and wellbeing for those growing up in kinship care. Leading the project is SCU Professor […]
Letter to the Editor: We deserve answers on airline fares
DEAR News Of The Area, INTERESTING to listen to QantasLink CEO Rachel Yangoyan speak to the Coffs Harbour Chamber of Commerce and then to the media on Wednesday, 29 October. When asked why airfares Sydney to Coffs Harbour were $150 dearer than flights to Ballina (same day flight/same day booking) she replied: – That QantasLink […]
Red Cross Coffs Harbour members Trish Mill, Brooke Bottrell and Biannca Mill with Food Fix’s Troy Arvidson.
Red Cross Coffs Harbour donates to Food Fix ahead of trivia fundraiser for local homeless
THE Coffs Harbour branch of the Red Cross is holding a morning of trivia in support of Food Fix, a local charity founded by Troy Arvidson that provides nutritious meals and vital support to people who are homeless or struggling to make ends meet. Red Cross Trivia Morning takes place on Tuesday, 19 November from […]
Letter to the Editor: Getting out more
DEAR News Of The Area, IT seems to me that some of our politicians need to get out more. Some of my family members are taking great satisfaction in the negligible prices they are paying for energy in their home and car since going solar. These are the people the Liberals/Nationals should be asking about […]
Gearing up for Back to Bowra are Nambucca Valley Deputy Mayor James Angel and Mayor Gary Lee, with their billy carts freshly scrutineered and deemed safe to race on Saturday 15 November.
Back to Bowra Festival on track for bumper day
Gearing up for Back to Bowra are Nambucca Valley Deputy Mayor James Angel and Mayor Gary Lee, with their billy carts freshly scrutineered and deemed safe to race on Saturday 15 November. Back to Bowra Committee President Gav McKinnon test drives one of the billy carts created for Back to Bowra by Nambucca Valley Rotary. […]
Letter to the Editor: The advice we need, not the advice we want
DEAR News Of The Area, US older Australians cling in hope for a return to the good old days, days not burdened by climate insecurity or even the discussion about such matters. Like a smoker who has been advised to give up smoking by his doctor, we seek out a different doctor. Our old faithful […]
Letter to the Editor: Memorial placement
DEAR News Of The Area, I READ with interest the article in News Of The Area dated 7 November, with respect to the proposed site(s) of the reconstructed WWII war memorial. Many years ago, a consortium which was attempting to rebuild the memorial, entered into discussions with the local Council about those sites. Both of […]
The cost to farmers of grain for feral pig trapping and baiting can be significant. Photo: supplied.
Free grain and bait on offer in statewide offensive on feral pigs
LANDHOLDERS across NSW are being encouraged to take advantage of $850,000 worth of free grain and bait on offer as part of a statewide crackdown on feral pigs. The funding is part of the Government’s Feral Pig and Pest Program with funding from the State’s more than $1 billion biosecurity budget. It is the third […]
OPINION: Reflections on the 1975 constitutional crisis
THE dismissal of the Whitlam Government in November 1975 highlighted the fragility of our parliamentary and constitutional system and the danger that, if the various constitutional norms that protect that system are ignored, the democratic system itself can be weakened. The real villains in the whole affair were two State Premiers who went against a […]
