DEAR News Of The Area, INTERESTING to listen to QantasLink CEO Rachel Yangoyan speak to the Coffs Harbour Chamber of Commerce and then to the media on Wednesday, 29 October. When asked why airfares Sydney to Coffs Harbour were $150 dearer than flights to Ballina (same day flight/same day booking) she replied: – That QantasLink […]
DEAR News Of The Area, IT seems to me that some of our politicians need to get out more. Some of my family members are taking great satisfaction in the negligible prices they are paying for energy in their home and car since going solar. These are the people the Liberals/Nationals should be asking about […]
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 […]
