DEAR News Of The Area, LAST week the Nambucca Valley Council rescinded an original resolution from 2018 to not support the Great Koala National Park (GKNP). This now gives the Council an avenue to explore the economic and environmental opportunities provided by the State Government announcement of the GKNP, an election promise, for our local […]
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 […]
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, […]
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: Inconsistent treatment from politicians
DEAR News Of The Area, IT is so sad, the way our community has been abandoned on the Jetty Foreshores. The NSW Planning Minister has just released, for his electorate, a foreshore plan for a “lasting, resilient and unique parkland area providing recreation, entertainment, dining and more”. Remember that this is in his own electorate. […]
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 […]
Letter to the Editor: Never Again is Now in Coffs Harbour
DEAR News Of The Area, ON October 9, 2023, Anglican Minister Mark Leach attended a protest in Sydney near the Cathedral about the Middle East. The lone representative of his ethnicity, he was chased away by protesters threatening his life. But in the true Australian spirit Mark didn’t give up. In the following months, as […]
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 […]
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 […]