October 4, 2025
Letter to the Editor: Our choice to buy Oz-grown bananas
Letter to the Editor

Letter to the Editor: Our choice to buy Oz-grown bananas

DEAR News Of The Area, IN response to “Farmers slam government over banana import review”, 26/9. The Australian Banana Growers Council stated that imports of bananas are unnecessary and risky, so what is the real agenda of the Federal Government? Is it to placate foreign business and political stakeholders, to undermine the power of local […]

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Letter to the Editor: Antisemitism in Australia
Letter to the Editor

Letter to the Editor: Antisemitism in Australia

DEAR News Of The Area, AUSTRALIANS quite rightly believe that there is no place for antisemitism in this country, and I am sure that many right-thinking people will be moved to join a movement to resist, schooled as we are in the horrors of the Holocaust (‘Never Again is Now in Coffs Harbour’, NOTA Letters, […]

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Letter to the Editor: A bridge over troubled waters?
Letter to the Editor

Letter to the Editor: A bridge over troubled waters?

DEAR News Of The Area, LAST Thursday evening, members of the Little Arrawarra community attended the Council meeting where councillors unanimously voted in favour of a feasibility study to improve public beach access. For more than 20 years, this issue has been raised, debated, and deferred, but never before has it reached this point of […]

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Letter to the Editor: Stop the scaremongering
Letter to the Editor

Letter to the Editor: Stop the scaremongering

DEAR News Of The Area, Micheal De Mol is premature in attributing the recent extreme weather events to climate change (NOTA 12/9/25). It appears that he, like many others, does not understand what climate is. It is the average weather over at least three decades. Climate is what you expect, while weather is what you […]

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OPINION: The moral culpability of ignoring climate change
Opinion

OPINION: The moral culpability of ignoring climate change

SHOCKED and grieving, she laid her ruined wedding dress on the muddied, mangled pile of treasured belongings. Emergency volunteers bore witness, absorbing her heartbreak while valiantly hosing stinking mud and river slime from her waterlogged home. Unforgiving torrents of floodwaters, fuelled by ‘atmospheric rivers’, left mountains of precious possessions disintegrating in landfill. Tragically, lives and […]

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Letter to the Editor: Sea level rises
Letter to the Editor

Letter to the Editor: Sea level rises

DEAR News Of The Area, I REFER to a letter written by Mr Warren Tindall and published in last week’s NOTA regarding a warning that sea levels will rise by 1.5 metres in the next 25 years.  Really? Warren, you can’t seriously believe that rubbish, can you? Are you sure you didn’t transpose the decimal […]

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