DEAR News Of The Area, IT’S interesting to note the slow-down in letters against multi-level housing on the Coffs foreshore. Have we been bludgeoned into submission? I, along with 69 percent of other Coffs Harbour residents, am totally opposed to any housing development east of the railway line. Yes, the area needs development. Parts of […]
SALLY and Harry have been married for 25 years. Sally transfers her home into joint names with Harry as “joint tenants”. Five years later, Sally is moved into a care facility and passes-away two years later at the age of 85. Sally leaves a daughter from a previous relationship, Penny. When Penny discovers that as […]
DEAR Jasminda, I’ve been invited to the staff Christmas party but the people going are hard partiers and I always end up being the designated driver. I’m aware there’s an expectation for me to remain under-the-limit to ferry all the guests home. I’m thinking I might not go for this reason. Harriet L. Dear Harriet, […]
MY mum, Dorothy Smith, was born on 14 December 1919 in a small mining settlement in outback Queensland called Kuridala. She had three brothers – one older and two younger. Her father was a mine manager, and the family lived there several years before moving to Papua New Guinea when Mum was two. The family […]
FOR those who’ve been around Coffs for a while, you’ll have noticed how much Park Beach has been changing. It’s become one of our strongest areas for new housing, with major developments like Shoreline and the new retirement and residential precinct now reaching key milestones – the Watermark Apartments are on track for residents to […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
