DEAR News Of The Area, IT is always front of mind to reach out to family and my friends after a shock. I remember, as many of us do, when we saw planes fly into skyscrapers almost 25 years ago. Our world changed. Last Sunday my country changed. Many Australians were needlessly killed. People died […]
DEAR News Of The Area, I BELIEVE Council can no longer claim to be a climate leader but are now a climate action laggard. In the last two meetings, Council have deliberately set their intent to scale back climate action commitments from previous terms of Council. Bellingen Shire Council, on the other hand, is leading […]
DEAR News Of The Area, AUSTRALIA has just hit a historic milestone: renewables have overtaken fossil fuels for the first time. This isn’t a blip – it’s the acceleration of an energy transition that is now economically unstoppable. Solar, wind, and battery storage are dominating new investment globally, and Australia is finally reflecting that reality. […]
DEAR News Of The Area, I AM frustrated. Today I used my precious fuel to drive from Sawtell to Coffs to do laps. Why did I drive to Coffs when there is a public pool in Sawtell you ask? Because the Department of Education has for the fourth week running booked four out of five […]
DEAR News Of The Area, LAST week I was driving through Grafton and noticed unleaded petrol was $1.68 per litre and I was in Port Macquarie on Sunday, and petrol was the same price as Grafton. So how can anyone justify people in Coffs Harbour paying up to 15 cents more per litre. It seems […]
DEAR News Of The Area, WHILE the Greens have long been accused of putting ideology before pragmatism in our federal political sphere, the recent behaviour of the Nationals and their Coalition partners in scuttling progress towards ‘Net zero’, illustrates just how far the conservatives are prepared to go to hold up Australia’s energy transition and […]
DEAR News Of The Area, THE construction of the new Council chambers building was a divisive and contentious issue at the time in Coffs, especially pertaining to the cost when there are so many roads and footpaths etc in the area where the money could have been better spent. But we have it now and […]
THE City of Coffs Harbour’s decision to defer the adoption of the Climate Risk and Adaptation Policy at the last Council meeting until a report on the costs, measures, and resourcing required to achieve net-zero emissions by 2030 and 2050 is presented to Council, is risking dumping the policy for politics. While it is understandable […]
DEAR News Of The Area, A SUBMISSION was made to Council at the time of the State Government’s advertising of its foreshore rezoning proposal pointing out that the business plan for the proposed development had not been made public. Without this there is nothing to explain how the roads and services infrastructures for the project […]
DEAR News Of The Area, THE matters raised by Harry Creamer and Jake Little in a recent edition of your paper in relation to the National Party’s attitude to the policy of “Net Zero” require some response. The Nationals are as eager as anyone else to reduce carbon emissions and if we ever reached a […]
