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 […]
DEAR News Of The Area, THE Nationals have rejected ‘Net Zero’, the policy they signed up to when Barnaby Joyce was their leader. Net Zero has become a totemic symbol, a two-word slogan the Nationals hate. But Net Zero is much more than a slogan – it’s an ambitious investment, energy, jobs, industry and environment […]
DEAR News Of The Area, Tuesday, 11 November is Remembrance Day. It is also the 50th anniversary of the sacking of the Whitlam government but I digress. I remember my father who joined the air force, learnt to fly Spitfires, and got shot down over Italy. Two weeks later, in a Bologna hospital, after having […]
DEAR News Of The Area, THE outcry in the media from “fire chiefs”, asserting that the eastern seaboard bushfire crisis during Black Summer was the result of climate change, begs an embarrassing question. Embarrassing for the “fire chiefs” that is. “Where were you when the root cause of this crisis was being laid down in […]
DEAR News Of The Area, THE recent decision by the National Party to abandon its commitment to net zero by 2050 has left many in regional Australia questioning what this means for our future. Net zero simply means balancing the greenhouse gases we produce with those we remove from the atmosphere, ensuring the world we […]
DEAR News Of The Area, ON page 1 of NOTA on 24.10.25 was an article outlining the proposed development by the Uniting Church in Gordon Street. It was reported there was to be an 18-storey residential tower with 108 dwellings. The 18-storey residential tower is on top of the ground and mezzanine, five levels of […]
DEAR News Of The Area, IN a social media video in September, Federal Member for Cowper Pat Conaghan was highly critical of Labor’s emissions reduction target of 62-70 percent by 2035. I have endeavoured to answer some of his statements with facts. Pat stated: The average Australian is currently paying more than 30 percent more […]
DEAR News Of The Area, I NOTE more comment on this matter in NOTA 24 October 2025 (‘Jetty Foreshore funding inconsistencies’, Letters), where we are urged to write to the Planning Minister Paul Scully and quote the polled results of the ballot held on 14 September 2024 (almost 70 percent voted no). I for one […]
DEAR News Of The Area, I AM whom Bill Robinson refers to (NOTA 24/10/25) as a denialist, though I prefer climate realist. He suggests that as a denialist I am too lazy or uncaring to dissect points made in Peter Flinn’s letter (NOTA 17/10/25). Peter’s letter was about the cause of bushfires in which he […]
