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 […]
DEAR News Of The Area, I NOTE more comment on this matter in NOTA 24 October 2025 (‘Jetty Foreshore funding inconsistencies’, Letters), where we are urged to write to the Planning Minister Paul Scully and quote the polled results of the ballot held on 14 September 2024 (almost 70 percent voted no). I for one […]
DEAR News Of The Area, I AM whom Bill Robinson refers to (NOTA 24/10/25) as a denialist, though I prefer climate realist. He suggests that as a denialist I am too lazy or uncaring to dissect points made in Peter Flinn’s letter (NOTA 17/10/25). Peter’s letter was about the cause of bushfires in which he […]
DEAR News Of The Area, FRUSTRATION, too much of a hurry, “the fire engine won’t hit me” mentality. On Monday at about 1:52pm at the “Bunnings” intersection, I was waiting to turn right from the Highway into North Boambee Road when a fire engine heading south, with lights and sirens blaring, had to cross to […]
DEAR News Of The Area, IT appears the NSW Government’s primary criteria in the redevelopment of the Coffs Harbour Jetty Foreshores is that it must be a self-funding project. Hence, the proposal to sell off part of the farm to developers to pay for it. Nice thought, although it is against the polled decision of […]
DEAR News Of The Area, I WAS saddened to hear that local country and western singer Bill Shipman had passed away. When I was a kid (before TV) when radio was king, station 2GF had a C&W segment every day at midday. It was called Robo’s Rodeo and was sponsored by Arthur Robinson’s car yard […]
