DEAR News Of The Area, FOR more than 30 years, ratepayers in the Coffs Harbour LGA have contributed to an environmental levy to support community-led environmental work. The proposed budget for the next three years of the “Delivery Program” published on Friday 16/4/26, appears to redirect funds away from community environmental programs and towards projects […]
DEAR News Of The Area, DO we need a migration debate or do we need a migration discussion? Debate implies conflict and discussion, a learning exercise. Given that more than a third of our population is either born overseas or from parents who were born overseas and in total more than 95 percent of Australians […]
DEAR News Of The Area, IN a letter published on 17 April, Lex Stewart opined on Australia’s fuel situation. Some of those statements should not go unquestioned, for example that we now refine only 20 percent of our production. The reasons for that are not explained in Mr Stewart’s letter, but here they are. Australia […]
DEAR News Of The Area, THE price of diesel fuel must be sounding alarm bells to heavy transport operators. How long will the price of diesel stay high, or more to the point how long will it take to return to the prices of a month ago – if ever? How pleasing it was to […]
DEAR News Of The Area, AS ANZAC Day approaches, and as wars rage unabated in Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, it is important to contemplate the sacrifices made by previous generations and what legacies we have inherited. Almost everyone who participated in WWII is now dead, weakening the direct link to that dark […]
DEAR News Of The Area, IT’S worth noting that the US/Israel war on Iran is going to affect people differently. Setting aside the effects on the Iranian people, the main effect here in Australia is that the costs of energy and food are going to go up. For working and middle-class people this is going […]
DEAR News Of The Area, AS a manager in an insurance company, I was required to visit repairers doing repairs for us. I recall once sitting on a milk crate in the driveway of a panel shop in Western Sydney whilst a man called Allan brewed Türkiye coffee. The coffee was handed to me in […]
DEAR News Of The Area, AUSTRALIA until recently had 10 oil refineries, but now has only two. Therefore we rely almost entirely on imports of finished products, of which we have only a few weeks of supply stored on Australian soil. The late Senator Major General Jim Molan pointed out the severe consequences of our […]
DEAR News Of The Area, Thank you Mike Hely for your article on the issues with the XPT service (NOTA 3 April Edition). I wrote in a few times complaining about this ‘non’ service and that their explanations were unacceptable. As I said neighbours actually went into the office at the Coffs station and were […]
DEAR News Of The Area, WHO didn’t appreciate the address to the nation by our esteemed leader? However, he omitted to utilise time honoured props: say Harris Tweed jacket complete with leather elbow patches, Toto in the background lazing in front of an open (electric fire), carbon free of course. No fossil fuel for Toto, […]
