DEAR News Of The Area, THE continual and ever increasing trend of taking dogs to the major hardware store, never fails to amaze and amuse me. It began with the family fluffy, which loved being plopped into the trolley. Now we have two or three beasts, panting and wagging their busy tails. I find it […]
DEAR News Of The Area, GREAT to read our recently re-elected Federal Member for Cowper, the Hon Pat Conaghan MP provide his opinion on the Federal Treasurer’s address to the National Press Club. Sadly, Mr Conaghan provided no substantive policy insights and appeared content with just scoring some ‘political points’ regarding both the Federal budget […]
BETTY has two sons, Matthew and Daniel. She makes a will and sadly passes-away just a few days’ later. The will appoints Matthew as the executor. Daniel receives a lump sum legacy of $300,000 and Matthew receives the rest of the estate. When Daniel discovers that the estate is worth $3.5 million, he obtains legal […]
DEAR News Of The Area, THE Coffs Triathlon Club needs to change its current running route from Park Beach Reserve to the Foreshores. There are multiple complaints against the army of triathlons on the narrow path each week from walkers, young mothers, the elderly, families and fellow joggers. People get bumped or forced from the […]
DEAR News Of The Area, WHENEVER I see “revitalise” or “vibrant” in a planning document, I follow the money to see which developer will benefit, knowing it will not be the public. Councillors and our local Member need to get out more, see the hundreds of people walking and vitally socialising from 6.00am in this […]
DEAR News Of The Area, CONGRATULATIONS on the opening of the CODA inner city apartments. The design looks great and hopefully it’s the start of many more. Many years ago, former Mayor Jenny Bonfield had a desire to see apartments above the shops and her dream has been realised. It’s great to see another luxury […]
DEAR News Of The Area, SO we have this system that the council promotes and pushes us to use and it is called “Have Your Say”. One would have thought it would be used to guide the councillors about how their ratepayers are feeling and what direction they should go in. But no! As per […]
DEAR News Of The Area, THE greatest strategy employed by weak leaders is the art of distraction. While this week’s MAGA focus has been on the US’s “spectacular” bombing of Iranian nuclear facilities, Israel’s genocidal annihilation of Palestine continues. While our PM’s support for the highly questionable US action was sadly predictable, any justification must […]
DEAR News Of The Area, THE ethical virtue of the words accompanying the deliberately long-winded ‘Coffs Harbour Jetty Foreshore revitalisation planning proposal public exhibition’ have caused me to recoil in disgust, because they only partly tell the whole truth about this proposal. Statements from this document are only partly right, lack virtue, honesty and nobility […]
DEAR News Of The Area, JIM Chalmers’ address to the National Press Club yesterday was filled with meaningless platitudes and uncomfortable contradictions that saw him continue his self-appointed role as a sideline commentator rather than the nation’s Treasurer. That may have passed during the first year of his first term, but as we look down […]
