DEAR News Of The Area, I WOULD like to respond to the article in NOTA on 21/2/25 titled “Conservationists dispute job loss claims”. The article related to the number of people currently employed in the local timber industry and its supply chain and the effects that the creation of the Great Koala National Park (GKNP) […]
Letter to the Editor: Koala situation only part of the forestry issue
THE Member for Oxley Michael Kemp appears to be the National’s new kid on the block when it comes to justifying native forest logging in our coastal forests. Repeating the same old National Party mantra over and over again doesn’t make it true. He would do well to read David Lindenmayer’s ‘The Forest Wars’, an […]