DEAR News Of The Area, I HAVE read the article of Friday 14 November 2025 by Greg Mclntosh entitled “Reflections on the 1975 constitutional crisis”. lt contains excellent research concerning his views on Senate elections and the dramas that preceded his analysis of that dramatic event. However, he speaks from hindsight which is a valuable […]
DEAR News Of The Area, IT is sad to see that Bellingen Council is on course to set a new low bench-mark for housing development, by recommending that the last little piece of accessible bushland in suburban Urunga, Lot 1 Ferry Street, be given to a local affordable-housing group as the site for a multi-dwelling […]
DEAR News Of The Area, WHY is it news that the coalition has a new energy policy? Will this one be any different to the 20 or so energy policies the Coalition failed to settle on in their nine years in government? They claim that ‘net zero’ is why electricity prices are too high and […]
DEAR News Of The Area, I WOULD just like people’s opinion about Brelsford Park and whether $1.5 million for the second stage was good value for money? At this early stage trees still need to grow and develop over coming years, but when you look more closely I think the community was completely ripped off! […]
DEAR News Of The Area, THE Coffs Harbour Botanic Gardens hold a special part in our families’ lives, as my father-in-law was one of many who helped develop and open the gardens in 1988. Today my grandson had his 6th birthday party in the gardens, with the wonderful support of Toni, and her team, in […]
DEAR News Of The Area, THE so-called Community Building that replaced the Vendetta building in the foreshores is but a small example of what will happen to the whole foreshores if PDNSW has its way and introduces residential and short stay accommodation into the area. We were promised a community building that “would become the […]
DEAR News Of The Area, I WOULD just like to send a big thank you to the management, staff, shopkeepers and shoppers at Park Beach Plaza. This Remembrance Day they held a minute’s silence. Shopkeepers turned off noisy machines, silenced their music and everyone stood head bowed in respectful silence. It was incredibly moving to […]
DEAR News Of The Area, WHAT a busy place the Great Koala National Park will be, with loggers being replaced with four wheel drive vehicles, pistol shooters, mountain bike riders, archers, and that scourge of every quiet neighbourhood, trail bikes. I’m sure this is not what the Knitting Nannas envisaged when they chained themselves to […]
DEAR News Of The Area, IT’S interesting to note the slow-down in letters against multi-level housing on the Coffs foreshore. Have we been bludgeoned into submission? I, along with 69 percent of other Coffs Harbour residents, am totally opposed to any housing development east of the railway line. Yes, the area needs development. Parts of […]
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 […]
